The Hatchet Part Three

Hatchet Blog Post #3

The Secret is tormenting Brian. In his times of weakness and agony he always recalls the secret. Brian had had a terrible night because he ate those the terrible cherries, gut cherries, he had started calling them because of the stomachache they caused. So after cleaning up the mess he had made near his shelter he went to look for more food and safer food to eat. After a while searching Brian find a bush full of Berries. Berries he recognizes. They are Raspberries beautiful gorgeous delicious raspberries he recognized from the park. He started eating them but there was a Bear near him. Brian ran but the bear did not want him he was just looking for berries. That same night he heard a sound and then something prickled his foot while he was sleeping he threw his Hatchet his only tool to it in desperation to scare it away. The next day he realized that porcupine had come in in the middle of the night. He has some weird dreams about his father and Terry pointing at the fire in the charcoal and he knew that those dreams meant something. In the next day when he is thinking about these dreams he recalls that when he threw the hatchet he had seen sparks when it had hit the rock. He would use the Hatchet to create fire. He gathered a lot of wood and bark to create the fireplace and he split his 20 dollar bill to burn it then he started striking the rock. After a long while of trying he managed to create the fire. He stays with the fire a long while and then in the morning he notices some strange marks in the side of the lake that lead to a hill. He dug a hole in the hill and found eggs, turtle eggs, he then ate one raw, which he found really disgusting and he saved all the rest for later. Brian later realizes that he is quite different now, He NOTICES things. Things he had never played attention to before and he realizes that he now is alert and he looks everywhere for a savior or a threat.

And he thought, rolling thoughts, with the smoke curling up over his head and the smile still half on his face he thought: I wonder what they're doing now. I wonder what my father is doing now. I wonder what my mother is doing now. I wonder if she is with him.

In this quote Brian is feeling a little nostalgic for the first time. For the first time he in not thinking about when he will be rescued or how to survive a little longer. But he is thinking of his family what they are doing and where they are. Also I believe that this quote demonstrates just how shocked and traumatized Brian is because of his mom’s infidelity. I mean Brian is shocked to the point were when he thinks of his mom for the first time in days he remembers her infidelity and I think that’s how it’s going to be from that point on when Brian thinks of his mom.

He would store them in the shelter and eat only one a day. He fought the hunger down again, controlled it He would take them now and store them and save them and eat one a day, and he realized as he thought it that he had forgotten that they might come. The searchers. Surely, they would come before he could eat all the eggs at one a day. He had forgotten to think about them and that wasn't good. He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping. He had to keep hoping.

Brian is really trying to cling to hope in this sentence and this brings up a really interesting topic to talk about and that is what can anyone do in that type of situation. If someone was in Brains situation and did not have any hope of survival and any hope of being rescued then they will probably go mad or just give up and not try to survive anymore. This really leads me to say that for humans hope is one of the strongest feelings and as long as they have hope and maintain that hope they will continue to fight and persevere.