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Making Meanings
 * 1) Why does Brian agree to take the hatchet from his mother?

In the novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, the main character - Brian accepts a gift from his mother and it is a hatchet. One support from the story is that in the novel on page 8 and 9. When Brians mom was driving him to the airport and Brian was staring at the window, not talking to his mom.mHis mom is trying to convince him to talk to her and have a conversation. But Brian refuses to talk to her and stays quiet staring at the window again. Brians mom told him she had a surprise fro him but he still didn't talkto her, it was a hatchet and it was attached to a belt. Another support from the novel and page number 9 is that his mom him to try the hatchet that wraps it on his belt on and Brian does not like the gift but he knows his mom is still upset so he tries it on anyway.

The way I can relate to this book is by text to world #2: Consider this... Brian was sitting in a bushplane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness with a pilot who had suffered a major heart attack and who was either dead or in something close to a coma. ASSI!
 * What would be your first reaction to this situation?
 * Would you try to help the pilot or try to fly the plane?

Chapter 8 notes
 * Brian comes face to face with the bear
 * He freaked and didn't move a mucle
 * The bear did not attack him
 * It studied him very carfuly
 * Whent he bear was finished he went on to his buesness
 * The bear picked some berries
 * Once the bear was done Brian went to pick some berries

Fact and Opinion:

Fact- A fact that is real Opinion- From someones point of view

· There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back.
=== · Then a wild crashing sound, ripping of metal, and the plane rolled to the right and blew through the tree’s, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake, skip once on the water as hard as concrete, water that tore the windshield out and shattered the side windows, water that drove him back onto the seat. ===

Chapter 11:
Chapter 12: Chapter 13: Chapter 14:
 * === There were things to do.  ===
 * === It took all his will to keep from eating another egg as he moved them  ===
 * === But he got it done and when they were out of sight again it was easier  ===
 * === A good laugh, that- cleaning the camp.  ===
 * === But it was a metal thing  ===
 * === He had gotten depressed thinking about how they hadn't found him yet  ===
 * === With the camp squared away he brought in more wood.  ===
 * === Did not know what the sound was ===
 * The fish spear didn't work.
 * He had been so sure, so absolutely certain that it would work the night before
 * He had worked on the fish spear until it had become more than just a tool.
 * He needed something to spring the spear forward, some way to make it move faster than the fish
 * He swung his eyes across the berries to make sure the bear wasn't there, at hie back.
 * He saw some young birch, and they were springy.
 * A plane.
 * It was a motor, far off but seeming to bet louder.
 * Brian stood at the end of the long part of the L of the lake and watched the water
 * Smelled the water
 * Listened to the water
 * Was the water
 * The food fish stayed close in, in the shallows, and did not roll that way but made quicker movements.
 * He was not the same
 * The plane passing changed him
 * The disappointment cut him down and made him new
 * Small mistakes could turn into disasters
 * Now it was different and so quick
 * The food had to be protected
 * the basic idea had been good, the place for his shelter was right
 * But he just hasn't gone far enough
 * He set about improving his shelter by tearing it down
 * He judged the door opening to be the weakest spot.
 * Brian had fresh fish

Chapter 15: chapter 16: Chapter 17: Chapter 18: Chapter 19:
 * Real time he measured in events
 * But events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember time
 * To know and remember what had happened
 * One first day of meat he got his bow and spear and went out to get some fish
 * He set it up on some sticks on the shelter wall and took the feathers and the insides down to the water.
 * He was immediately caught in a cloud of raw odor
 * And now he stood at the end of the long part of the lake and was not the same.
 * That brought first Rabbit day
 * When he killed one of the large rabbits with an arrow and skinned ti as he had the first bird
 * Now he went back and forth between rabbits and foolbirds when he could
 * This time the bird jerked a bit and the arrow stuck next to it so close it almost brushed its breast.
 * As soon as he moved, the hair on her back went up and she charged him against him again
 * So insane, he thought, letting sleep cover the pain in his chest
 * He turned back to his campsite and looked to the wreckage
 * When the spear was done, although still crude, he jammed a wedge between the points to spread them apart and went to the pond
 * The fish was pinned neatly and he took two more
 * The fish did not fill him up
 * It came then.
 * It took most of the day
 * The limbs were cluttered and stuck any which way
 * Brian worked around the tail of the plane two more times, pulling himself along on the stabilizer and the elevator, but there simply was not a way in
 * He slammed his fist against the body of the plane and to his complete surprise the aluminum covering gave easily under his blow
 * He might be able to cut or hack with the hatchet
 * The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese
 * It went straight down past his legs
 * The hatchet was, had been him
 * Brian finds treasure