I chose this book since I really liked it and the main theme was clearly survival so it was easier to make the connections.
In my essay I am going to
talk about how Hatchet’s theme is survival and why it is. In the book a boy named Brian was flying over
Alaska to see his dad when the pilot had a heart attack. The plane crashed and miraculously Brian
survived the crash. The only possession
he had was a hatchet. Here is why the theme is survival.
First of Brian’s troubles
were when his plane crashed into the middle of Alaskan wilderness. The pilot had a heart attack which caused the
plane to dip down and no one to drive it.
Brian had to try to steer the plane into a lake so that he still could
survive. When he landed in the lake
Brian had to fight his way out of the plane and then swim to the surface before
he ran out of air. That seems like a
pretty good example of survival.
After Brian got used to the
wilderness and had shelter, food and water a tornado hit his camp and forced
him to start all over on surviving in the wild.
The only thing he had was his hatchet, like when the plane crashed and
he almost died. This is a good example
about how he was doing good in survival, until everything went wrong and made
him start all over again.
Once Brian recovered from the
tornado and the plane crush he got up and started all over again. His whole body wanted to shut down and die
but he decided to live. That later made
a good choice since this time when he started all over again he did a better
job. Eventually though, he got careless
and a moose trampled him. He got bruises
and broken bones but he didn’t die. This
shows the book displayed survival as unforgiving, hard work and if you mess up
you don’t get a second chance.
In the book, Hunger
Games, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss was chosen to compete in a giant
arena where everything was woods and twenty-four people battled it out, killing
each other until there is only one left.
Katniss was a hunter, which made her good at surviving. She thrived in the games, only relying on
herself. She had to do what Brian did
but on top of that she had people trying to kill her! This shows how survival was also a theme in
the Hunger Games but sometimes survival is harder than other times.
These are reasons why The
Hatchet was a book about survival and why.
If you were in Brian’s place what would you have done? Survival can be the theme in many books,
whether surviving in the wild or just surviving High School, although Brian’s
situation was a little worse than surviving high school.
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