In hatchet where is brian going

The skunk has also eaten the eggs he had stored on the shore. Brian learned two lessons from this incident: make a sturdy shelter and put food in a protected place.

As he travels from Hampton, New York on a single-engine Cessna bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in Northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. Brian tries to land the plane but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. Brian later learns that the man who rescued him is a fur buyer out to survey Cree trapping camps.

Brian had lost a lot of his body weight since the crash, and he remains thin for years. He almost drowns trying to tear the plane open. He recovers, among other things, an emergency transmitter. In chapter 18, Brian ends up retrieving the valuable survival pack from the partly submerged plane in the middle of the lake.

Brian often uses the hatchet to help him get the other items that he needs to survive. Um, yikes. Brian does his best to keep calm and come up with a plan, but really, do you know how to land a plane? The plane eventually crashes into a lake and Brian escapes out the broken windshield. Brian painstakingly figures out how to survive on his own—finding shelter, building a fire, the works. All the while, though, he's counting on being rescued at any time.

When a rescue plane does show up, though, Brian isn't ready, and the plane leaves before he has a chance to attract the pilot's attention with a signal fire. Major, major bummer. Brian collapses in despair, realizing that his chance to be rescued has passed him by, and he is alone. The next time we see Brian, it's forty-two days later. We find out that the Secret is the fact that his mother is having an affair—Brian saw her with another man in a station wagon while he was riding bikes with Terry.

Brian knows that his mother was having an affair with another man, which is the reason she asked for a divorce. It is a lesson that teaches Brian to tune out some of the other elements that are not going to help him survive. In your opinion, why did he dislike the change? He decided to have a feast and save the rest so it will last as long as he needs it. After a few tries, Brian succeeds in picking the hatchet up from the bottom, having barely enough air in his lungs to return to the surface.

He continues to cut into the plane and swims down into it to retrieve the survival pack. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Social studies. Ben Davis February 28,