Brian takes inspiration from his playing with his best friend Terry to build a proper shelter and selects a suitable location and structure for this purpose.
He feels hungry, and recalls a TV show in which a pilot survivor in a desert cooks lizard stew for food. Since there are no lizards there, he decides to find something else.
He finds unfamiliar bright red berries, and eats them as they were the only option.
During his search for good, Brian also misses his family and feels sad for his parent’s divorce.
Brian builds a good and dry shelter.
Brian’s stomach is disturbed because of eating berries, but he sleeps somehow.
Explanation:
"The Hatchet" (1986), written by American writer Gary Paulsen (Born 1939), is a survival and adventure novel for young adults.
The novel consists of nineteen chapters and an epilogue. It is about a thirteen year old Brian. When travelling with a pilot to visit his father, the pilot dies because of heart attack during the flight, plane crashes, and Brian is stranded near a lake in a Caribbean island. He is rescued after fifty four days.
Like many of Paulsen's other works, it has many autobiographical elements, For examples his parent's troubled relations, his leaving his parent in his early teens, and his adventures and jobs in tough circumstances.
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