The book Hatchet, is about a typical 13 year old boy, whose parents are divorced. He tries to cope with his parents divorce but it is hard for him. He is not happy about his mother's new boyfriend either. Brian is very excited to go and visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. But the only problem is, he has to fly there. He is scared of flying, but he goes anyway. Brian's mother drove him …showed first 75 words of 786 total…

…showed last 75 words of 786 total…but he did not think it was wrking. He found out that he was wrong when the rescue plane showed up. Brian was so happy to see the rescue plane. He returned back to his mom's house. Brian was informed that he was in the wilderness for 52 days. He did not know how he did it. He did know that he matured very much so in those 52 days and he was very proud of himself.