The Hatchet Part Two

Hatchet 

Brian isn’t doing anything. When we left off he had survived the plane crash and now he is waiting. Waiting to be saved. Half sleep and half awake he recalls how he found out about the secret, when he say his mom kissing the manwith the short blonde hair. He reasoned that they would come save him in like a day or two days. He is near the lake he landed in and he is really hungry and really thirsty and he is concerned that because the pilot tilted the plane when he died his parents and anyone who is looking for him won’t be able to find him for some time. So he decides to do something. He recalls the time where he and his friend where pretending to be lost in the woods and he starts missing him and he starts realizing all the things that he might need for survival out in the wild. First he looked for shelter, he looked a little around the lake and found an overhang that formed something like a little cave. After that he felt the Hunger and the Thirst quite clearly so he had a drink of the lake water and that made the Hunger intensify. So he went looking for food and after a while he saw that the birds were eating something, they were eating berries. So he grabbed a load of berries and they ended up making him sick. So with a sickening feeling he went to the little overhang which was his shelter and went to sleep.

 Maybe even today. They might come today. This was the second day after the crash. No. Brian frowned. Was it the first day or the second day? They had gone down in the afternoon and he had spent the whole night out cold. So this was the first real day. But they could still come today

I’m starting to feel really bad for Brian because he is not at all prepared for what is coming to him he thinks that people will find him that day or like three days tops but he is not preparing himself mentally or physically for a long term stay in that forest. I think he is not really accepting what is happening to him because he went through a really traumatic experience and he really might die here. Brian is not really preparing himself so he won’t die if they don’t find him but he is just gathering enough supplies to last until they find him. In conclusion I believe Brian is really clinging to some presumably false hope.

If only I had matches, he thought, looking ruefully at the beach and lakeside. There was driftwood everywhere, not to mention dead and dry wood all over the hill and dead-dry branches hanging from every tree. All firewood. And no matches. How did they used to do it? He thought. Rub two sticks together?

This quote shows us how Brian by using his prior knowledge is thinking of some survival skills to make it for a few days. It also shows how because of all the commodities of the modern world people are really unprepared to survive out in nature. This is of course just a teen ager but  I don’t think an adult would know how to create fire without matches and the tools we have to do things easier in our society.