Michael Hoover Summer Blog 2

Michael Hoover
Summer Blog
Book: The Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
Prompt: What is the most important lesson in this book, and Why was this important?
Prompt #2: If you could trade places with the character would you, and why?
SPOILERS

 One of the most important things that the book The Hatchet can teach some one after reading it is that keep trying. I think this because when Brian the main character gets stranded out  in the middle of no were he tries to make fire and even though he cant make it the first time he keeps trying for a really long time and he finally was able to make it. This was really important for him because the fire that he made kept him alive and if he had not wanted to keep trying he probably would have died.
 
 Another really important lesion that you can learn from the book the hatchet is that you should never give up hope, for instance after Brian crashed he did not get sad and depressed and thinking that help would never come. He just kept thinking that someone would find him and save him from the woods someday, and he never let go of hope he did luckily get rescued. This is important because then he would have been miserable and not wanting to go on any more.

  If I could trade places with the main character I don't think that I would. I would not trade places with the main character because I don't think that I would be able to handle being all alone and not being able to talk to anybody. Another reason I would not trade spots with the main character is because I don't know what birds to hunt or how to clean them to eat.