Theme Of Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

I agree with what Graham Greene stated. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island where they unite but shortly separate. Trust is key when stranded and one of the boys, Jack, had no trust and felt he had to take matters in his own hands. Jack betrayed Ralph, the original leader, by separating the group and turning them against each other. Jack also mislead the others boys into illusions of food and relaxation because the boys were starving and fighting with one another but he could not fulfill any of his promises. He said these promises to gain trust. Jack did not trust Ralph's leadership so he decided to form his own group even though his own leadership was an untrustworthy. This action caused many problems and mistrust between all the boys. This lead Jack's group to attack Ralph's for Piggy's glasses to make fire. With no trust between the groups it causes chaotic events like this occurrence. This proves the statement, ".....It is impossible to go through life without trust" to be true because life without trust causes problems and enemies which leads to more mistrust.

Gary Paulsen’s fictional character Brian Robeson has to survive a plane crash in the Canadian Wilderness in the time period of the 1980’s. Along with the fictional character, the setting that the book takes place in is also fictional. Although the setting is fictional, the Canadian Wilderness is real. Gary Paulsen created the L-shaped lake and the environment around it in his mind. The animals’ features were all created from his pure imagination, which helped make the book even more fascinating. The environment that Brian Robeson survived in formed a great realistic impression, although it was created from its author’s own imagery.

The protagonist of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy from New York. The setting of this book is the northern Canadian wilderness. At the beginning of the book, Brian is going on a plane from New York to Canada to visit his father after he and Brian’s mother got divorced. The divorce and “The Secret” that Brian’s mother is having an affair plagues Brian for the majority of the book. As the pilot of the plane is flying them over the Canadian wilderness, the pilot has a heart attack and the plane crashes into a large lake. Brian survives, but the plane has sunk in the lake. Brian is injured and has no food. He eventually finds a bunch of strange berries and eats them, but they end up making him sick. He then finds a large amount of raspberries and spots a bear while he is there. He makes a shelter, but in the middle of the night, a porcupine wanders into his shelter and Brian throws his hatchet at it. It shoots quills into his leg and runs off.

Paragraph II: In the first section (paragraph one) Paul Bogard talks about the darkness he once knew on a Minnesota lake as a child. The dominant rhetorical device used by Bogard in this section is an appeal to the reader’s emotions. The language that Bogard uses such as “smoky trails”, “sugary

As the essay continues, White notices more and more differences from the lake he remembered as a child. The calmness of the lake and its surrounding forestry is still intact, but

The discovery of the biker’s body is the turning point in not only the story, but also in the narrator’s life. In a short time, he has been beaten, has knocked out someone with a tire iron, almost raped a woman, found a dead body, and watched his mother’s Bel Air station wagon be destroyed. Which was all done for the rush of excitement. While hiding in the water that was previously seen as a tarn of doom, with all the nights occurrences spinning in his head, he has an epiphany. Standing there he realizes what becomes of “tough-guys” and discovers that he has found his salvation within his true self. Accordingly, as the narrator emerges from Greasy Lake, he is a new person with a newly discovered perspective. As the sun is rising and the songs of birds replace the sounds of crickets, he leaves the pool of once dismal waters (Boyle 118). This signals his rebirth and his baptism as a reformed adolescent.

This passage is symbolic to the point that it relates to the boys. Life is like the lake as in life can bring clarity and peacefulness or it can be murky and destructive. To the Narrator the Lake is a crucial life changing moment when he realizes that he is just a child and not this bad ass who can take on the world. “I was nineteen, a mere child, an infant, and here in the space of five minutes I’d struck down one greasy character and blundered into the waterlogged carcass of a second” (125).

Have you ever had a nightmare where you were stuck on an Island by yourself? Well this really happen to Brian in the story Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. He was stuck on the island for 54 days. This caused moments were he had to put his thinking to the test. He had aha moments of realization on figuring out problems he may have had in the story. When he had these moments it would impact the way the story on ways to survive. These moments helped him out on how to make a fire with his resources he has, and also helps him have a more proficient way on catching fish.

Imagery, detail, and symbolism play a crucial role in this work. Imagery has the function of painting a picture of the situation in the reader’s mind so that he or she is able to develop a version of the story individually. It makes the reading a more personalized experience that helps the reader to understand what’s going on. When O’Brien was just about to escape to Canada to avoid being drafted, he described the scene that was presented in front of him. “The shoreline was dense with brush and timber. I could see tiny red berries on the bushes.” In this quote, the reader can visualize the setting of the lake where he has to make his life-changing decision. It appeals to the visual sense by describing the shoreline and even the sense of

Pat Mora’s “Fences” is a delicate poem that deals with the timely issues of class divide and privilege. She begins her poem on a positive note, saying “Mouths full of laughter,” which creates this safe and harmless tone. The next line, she uses the word “turistas,” which is interesting; Mora uses a Spanish word (tourist in English) to indicate possibly the ethnicity of the speaker. It is not until the last few lines of the poem, however, when the reader can also detect the class and likely status of the speaker, when the speaker’s mother says, “It’s their beach,” after seeing the speaker’s younger sister running across the sand where the affluent tourists are. At only 19 lines, “Fences” is a relatively short poem, but Mora’s use of

The author symbolizes the water as transition and spirituality, the lake is symbolized as the elusive badness the boys want so badly. The narrator notices that none of them are as bad as they try to act. After that night the narrator realizes he cannot make it in that life, rather the narrator wants to go to the safety and security of his home and parents.

The Dare by Roger Hoffman is a short story that conveys feelings and emotions of a seventh grade boy who had undertaken an extremely risky adventure. The essay is written by the author in his adulthood, but, nevertheless, he still manages to create this essay as if he is still in his childhood. Hoffman uses stylistic devices like metaphor, imagery, simile, and personification to create meaning in the short story, The Dare.

Material wealth and ownership are other concepts the lake dispels for Ruth. Sylvie stole the boat they use to cross the lake, with no regard for the man who owns the boat. The lake promotes the idea of freedom to do what you want with no consequences. The water provides a safe haven for Ruth and Sylvie to escape the man on the shore and then carries them to a safe haven which is one of the many islands on the lake. The water acts as a barrier between the new way of

The lake itself plays a major role throughout the story, as it mirrors the characters almost exactly. For example, the lake is described as being “fetid and

A dramatist who explores the theme of revenge throughout his play is Arthur Miller in ‘The Crucible. There are different characters in this play that carry this theme of revenge, Abigail being one in particular, as she seeks revenge against Goody Proctor. This is due to Goody Proctor firing Abigail from her job after she had found out Abigail had had an affair with her husband. This seventeen-year-old girl also has an endless capacity for dissembling. John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and the Putnam’s are also characters in the play that are out to seek revenge for their own reasons. It could through the theme of revenge, be said that Miller tries to enhance your application of the play.