JEREMY’S READERS JOURNAL number three
Dear Mrs. Zrihen
I just finished reading a fictional book called “HATCHET” BY GARY PAULSEN. The book is about a man named Brian Rebeson, who was in a plane, going to visit his dad at the Canadian wilderness. The exposition starts When he’s in a plane with a pilot, Brian realizes that the pilot gets a heart attack and dies. Brian gets worried because he does not know how to drive a plane, so when he looks for a headphone he finds one on the pilot’s head, so he carefully takes the headphone off without the pilot knowing (because he thinks that the pilot has just fainted), so when he takes off the headphone he puts it on and suddenly yells out “HELPPPP!!!!!”, “I’m in a plane with a pilot who just got a heart attack, is there anyone that can help me, please talk!!!!”. “I hear you loud and clear sir!”, “I need help please someone, tell me what to do!”. “I’m sorry, you’re breaking up, what did you say?”, “I said, I need help right away!!!!” Brian yelled aloud. “I’m sorry sir, I can’t hear you!” just when Brian was going to yell, he realizes that he has broken up completely, so he try’s to figure out which button does what, as he was doing that, he see’s the wheel and he try’s to see which way he needs to go. So when he looks at the map it shows to go 10 more miles. So here is when the rising action starts, when he tries to hold the plane still, he sees a forest and he gets distracted by the view, when he did, the plane was out of fuel, so he crashes in the forest!!! This is where the climax is, when he crashes, in a cold lake, he feels his legs, head, arms, and stomach ach very hard. So as soon as he sleeps by a tree he thinks it will go away the next day. When he wonders if he can drink lake water or not, he crawls to the lake and he takes only a sip to taste it, when he did he realizes, its just water, so when he was thinking about getting a drink he knows to stop by, by the lake and drink it every time he’s thirsty. The next day he realizes that the forest crash was not a dream, and his body still aching. When he looks for food he finds a whole bush of raspberries. When he was taking out more than a dozen, he finds a bear. So when the bear sniffed his mouth, it remembered that it hated raspberry’s so it ran away. When it was dinner time he got so hungry that he had to get food from a house nearby, when he came back at around 7:00pm he try’s to make a fire out of wood, the wood didn’t work, so he remembered the hatchet that his mother gave him for his birthday, that it had special wood to make fire in 5 minutes, when he tried and tried and it didn’t work, he got very angry, that he threw it on the floor and it actually lit in fire and Brian yelled “finally victory is mine!!!”. When it became morning he was wondering why his face felt all smooth , when he looked at his reflection, he saw that his face was white from the smoke of the fire last night. When he was eating raspberry’s for breakfast again he heard a poisonous snake behind him. When he was running away he tripped, and the snake was hissing right on his eye. Before the snake bit him he stuck out some raspberry’s the snake bit it and ran away. Brian was so scared, that he fainted for 5 minutes. When he was taking a stroll around the forest, he saw a shed and moved it where he was sleeping, (now he was able to put his pills and medicine in) he thought. The falling action starts here, when he woke up, a pilot from the airport said that they will go rescue him as soon as they can, so Brian packed everything up and was ready to leave to his dad (this time) hopefully. He does everything that he can to survive. The resolution starts here, when the plane arrived, the bear that Brian saw a few days ago was running to him to make sure he does not leave. So Brian went in fast and made it. Brian came to his dad’s house and had a nice welcome dinner. The genre of the book is fiction. The topic is being stuck in a forest. The main idea is when he crashed in a forest with a plane and did whatever to survive before the plane came to get him. The book is stated because he arrives to his dad’s house for dinner. Another title I would give it is ‘stuck in a forest”, because he does get stuck for a few days. The 3 supporting details are “a guy getting stuck in a forest”, “it’s a cliffhanger”, “never give up in trying to escape”. The book is sensory because it explains what he sees tastes and smells. The essential message of the text is to never give up in what your doing. The cause is crashing in a forest, and the effect is trying to escape. The problem is being trapped, the places were at home and forest. The five text features are bolded and highlighted words, table of contents, headings, titles and sub titles, and maps. They help me write down information about the book .. The book is about when he is in a plane then the plane crashes and ends up in a forest and Brian does whatever he can to survive and escape. The Authors purpose is to entertain. The Authors point of view is never give up. The mood is suspense at the beginning and joy at the end because he finally arrived to his dad’s house. Also the mood is happy. The significance was Brian coming to his dad’s house finally. The characters were the pilot, Brian, a bear, and his dad. The protagonist was Brian and dad, the antagonist was a bear, and the foil was the bear. The setting was in the forest, and house, the weather was cloudy. The plot structure was in a plane, then crashing in the forest, then panicking, then shelter, then rescue. The conflict is being trapped in a forest, and its internal, and character VS nature. The theme was a forest. The moral was deciding if he still wanted to go to his dad’s house because he was tired. The rate I would give this book is a 4 out of 5 because it was sad when he was stuck for a few days. The End
Your student Jeremy
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