Hatchet is a book about a 13 year old kid named Brian who crash lands in the Canadian wilderness and has to survive on his own. Brian is flying to Alaska to visit his dad for the summer when suddenly the pilot has a heart attack and dies. He grabs onto the controls and tries to land the plane but there's no flat area so he decides to crash into a lake. He hustles out of …showed first 75 words of 437 total…

…showed last 75 words of 437 total…a rock with a great blow and sparks catch the bark on fire. He hits another blow and The sparks catch the twigs on fire. And so he has a fir. This process shows that whatever Brian sets his mind to he can do it. The wilderness setting is important because if Brian landed in a major city, it would be on the news everywhere. His dad would see it and come to get him.