Michael's+Summary+of+Hatchet

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, is about Brian a thirteen year old boy from New York who`s only wish is to have a pair of parents that are not divorced and can love him together under one roof, not two thousand miles away. While on a bush plane, on his way to his father`s, his pilot has a heart attack. Now the only on a plane that does not have any fuel Brian is forced to land on a near by lake in the middle of a Canadian forest. While in the forest he puts all of his problems into prospective and the city boy learns how to survive on his own. Brian who only wanted to be back with his family now is forced to try to survive where he is for the long hall. Throughout his adventure while Brian is in the forest he faces many opppsticles such as finding a settler, food, and water. So he uses his scares resources around him to make him self a spear, a fish trap, and a bow and arrow. After a long 56 days in the forest, Brian was looking for a mircale but the chances of that were scarce the doubts started to pour into his mind. Suddenly he hear an engine it was an apline flying his way, after lighting his singal fire, the plane landed on the lake infont of him. Brian had survived the impossible.