Hatchet: Teen aged Boy Suffers A Insane Attack

In class, I read a survival book named Hatchet. I have been thinking about the author -Gary Paulsen- message. My class had to write a reading response in testing conditions. Here are my thoughts about the book.

Hatchet Novel Response 

In class, I have been reading a book called Hatchet. The author of this amazing survival book is Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen had written a fictional novel. The story is about a 13-year-old boy named Brian Robeson. The 13-year-old was going to see his father, but on the way, he suffered a plane crash while he was driving in the Canadian wilderness. The only tools Brian had was a tattered windbreaker and a hatchet that his mother had given him. I think the author's main message is that anything is possible if you just try harder. 

I think the message the author is trying to give is that when things are hard never give up on life. In part of the Hatchet book, Brian never gave up on trying to get food. He stood in the shallow and waited, waited, and waited. With patience Brian successfully gets food. The waiting and waiting Brian had to do was frustrating for him. Anticipating the wild he was able to survive an insane amount of injuries by not giving up on life.

 Another message Gary Paulsen may be trying to give us is that; just because you are in a bad situation, a bad attitude will not help. When  Brian was in a bad situation, he started to get angry and frustrated at things. With temper coming into Brian he started to get frustrated, but he never gave up. The first night of being in the wilderness Brian was attacked by a dozen mosquitoes, he was frustrated in a bad situation but survived.

I think this book was a very good cliffhanger and a very exciting book to read. One thing that was the most interesting part to make me still read it was when Brian had been hit by a wild moose and the insane tornado. I think that Gary Paulsen is a very good author. This book was one of the most interesting books I have ever read. I have also read other books by Gary Paulsen like Hatchet: Winter and Hatchet: The Truth. I amazingly enjoyed these books of his.