Michael Hoover theme blog
Book: The Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
Spoiler Alert!
I think that the theme of the book "The Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild. The reason that I think that the theme of the book is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild is because when the protagonist Brien is stranded in the woods after the plane that he was in crashed, he was forced to make extremely hard decisions, for example when he got out of the lake that the plane that he was in had crashed in he had to think of weather to run and panic into the forest or be calm and collected and work on getting fire and water.
Another reason that I think that the theme of the book is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild is because Brien found a maggot hole and he had a choice of weather to wait to see if he could catch a bird or animal for meat and take the chance of starving or he could eat the maggots and get the nutrition and be sure to live for a while longer. This shows that you have to do anything to survive in the wild because in normal day life you would not have to make a decision that could make or break weather you live or not.
Another theme in the book "The Hatchet" could be that nothing is more important than family.
I think this because in the book before Brien got on the plane he did not want to go to see his father because his father cheated on his mom and then he got stranded in the middle of know where and then he really realized how important his parents are and how much that they cared about him.
