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Have you ever been left alone to fend for yourself? Or had no one to support you through your hardest times? You would ask yourself this while reading the captivating story in the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. After surviving the traumatizing plane crash while going to his father's house, Brian was left alone to fend for himself in the canadian wilderness with nothing but a hatchet his mother gave him. For 54 days completely on his own, he survived through the toughest times and all the challenges he faced. And while doing so he changed mentally and physically and this helped him to survive. Overall, the main ways he has changed is he has become more curious and more grateful for the privileges that he has and has learned that he has to use what he has and make the best of it, he will have to work hard for what he wants, …show more content…

They put them in the desert down in Arizona or someplace and they had to live for a week. They had to find food and water for a week. For water they had made a sheet of plastic into a dew-gathering device...´´ This quote shows how much he has changed through the heartbreaking time in the wilderness. In the beginning he was to scared to do anything and was not trying new things so he started to panic, and as he progressed through his time there he started to get curious and found all kinds of ways to survive. However he learns from his mistakes and he learns that if you are not curious, then it will have deadly consequences. If he did not relize that he needed to do something and did not find those berries when he did, there was going to be an increasing chance that he would not have been able to survive or live as long as he did. Although he made bad choices in the past, he learned from them and made the smart choice to not hide behind walls because he has changed from when he first got

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