Hatchet Chapter 1

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Hatchet Chapter 1 Brian is a fourteen year old
boy who is traveling with his mother to a small
airport in New York. He is going to visit his dad
for the summer. His dad works for an oil company
in Canada. His parents have recently been
divorced. His mother gives Brian a hatchet as a
present for his trip to Canada. When he gets to
the airport Brian finds out that he will be
traveling in a small plane. The small bush plane
is only big enough to fit Brian and the pilot.
Holding back tears Brian says goodbye to his
mother and gets on the plane.
After a little while Brian realizes the pilot
is having stomach pains. It appears the pilot is
having a heart attack. The pilot passes out from
the heart attack. Brian is alone and does not
know how to fly the plane. What will he do?
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Chapter 2 Brian did not know what to do. He did
not know how to perform CPR. The pilot would not
respond. Brian had read books about flying and
had watched the pilot during takeoff. The plane
was still flying. He figured out how to keep the
plane going straight. The sky was a clear blue
and he could only see green trees all around him.
He knew he would crash into the trees or a lake.
He then tried to get the headset off the pilot
to call for help. Brian was able to put the
headset on and call for help. He received a
response but he could barely hear it. After a few
minutes he lost contact with the person. He was
alone again.
Brian realized he was going to have to land the
plane. He could try and land the plane on a lake
or a clearing.
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Chapter 3 Brian thought he was going to die. He
was scared. He waited for the plane to run out of
gas and then aimed for a lake to land into. He
found an L shaped lake. Brian started to bring
the plane down. The trees got closer and closer.
Things seemed to stop for many seconds. The
plane started to hit the trees. Right before
hitting the ground he pulled the nose of the
plane up. The plane crashed. He felt an
explosion as dirt hit his face. He could hear
himself screaming. As the plane stopped he
realized he had crashed into the lake. He swam to
the surface and crawled out of the plane. He swam
to shore and pulled himself up onto the grass.
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Chapter 4 As Brian laid on the side of the lake
he started to think about the terrible secret he
had on his mind. He remembered it very clearly.
He was at the Mall with his friend. He noticed
his mother in a car with a man who was not his
father. He then realized he was alive. He had
survived the crash. He felt pain all over his
body. His head was swollen and his arms and legs
hurt. He then noticed there were lots of bugs
around him. Finally the sun came out and the bugs
left him alone. There were so many evergreens. He
noticed a beaver swimming in the lake. He saw a
fish jumping and heard many noises all around
him. He was very tired. He fell asleep on the
side of the lake.
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Chapter 5 Brian awoke on the side of the lake. He
felt thirsty. He walked into the lake. He sat
back down against the rough tree bark. He needed
to sort out what he was going to do and what had
happened. He knew it was the day after the crash.
It was the second day. He thought people must be
searching for him. The plane had a flight plan
and they would follow it and find him. Then he
realized the plane was off course. It may take 3
or 4 days but they will come. Brian was very
hungry. All he could think about was hamburgers,
fries, and milkshakes. Then he stopped himself.
He remembered his old teacher Perpich. He had
always told him to be positive. He needed to see
what items he had that could help him. He emptied
his pockets. He had a few coins, a twenty dollar
bill, a watch, his clothes, and the hatchet.
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Chapter 6 He knew that he had to make a
shelter. He started looking for materials and a
place to build his shelter. He found a small
stone ridge that he could fit under. He was
still very hungry. He started to look for food.
He saw birds all around him eating berries. He
started eating the berries. Brian ate as many as
he could then he filled his pockets with berries.
He headed back to his new shelter. He started to
think about how he could make a fire. He wished
he had matches. He tried to rub sticks together
to make a fire. It did not work. He would not
have fire tonight. Since he could not make a
fire he started to gather sticks and branches for
his shelter. He wove sticks together to make
walls and a door to his shelter.
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Chapter 7 He woke up vomiting and with diarrhea.
He had eaten too many berries. He was sick for
over an hour. He then walked down to the lake to
wash up. His stomach was still growling and
twisting. He drank some water but it didnt help
with hunger. He went back to his shelter and
picked out only the maroon black berries that
were ripe. He found a clearing and some berries
on the ground. These were raspberries. As he was
picking raspberries he noticed a large animal
with him. After looking at Brian the bear went
back to eating the raspberries. Brian ran off
back to his shelter. Brian went back to gather
more raspberries. It started to rain but he was
dry and warm in his shelter. He was still scared
from seeing the bear. He fell asleep with the
hatchet in his hand.
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Chapter 8 Brian woke up to a growl in the night.
He was then hit with this musty rotten smell. The
thought of Bigfoot entered his mind. Then Brian
heard a slithering sound on the ground. He threw
his hatchet at it. He missed and the hatchet sent
sparks from hitting a rock. He felt a sharp pain
in his leg as if a hundred needles had entered
into his leg. He could see a dark shadowy figure
moving out the front of the cave. He could feel
the needles that had dug into his skin. It had
been a porcupine in his cave. Brian felt eight
quills in his leg. Brian began to pull the quills
out of his leg. Brian thought about the sparks
the hatchet made when he threw it at the
porcupine. He could make a fire with the sparks.
He started hitting the hatchet against the rocks
in his cave. Sparks began flying as he hit it
harder and harder. He knew he would be able to
make a fire.
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Chapter 9 Brian found it easy to make sparks
with the hatchet but they were not starting a
fire. Brian looked around for something to help
start his fire. He noticed two broken birch trees
hanging over the lake. The birch tree bark was
just like paper. He gathered a wad of bark the
size of baseball and went back to his shelter to
try and start a fire. He began hitting the black
rock with the hatchet and saw the sparks going
into the bark. It still didnt work. The fire
was starving just like he was. He had bark for
the fuel but he still needed air. The fire needed
more oxygen. He had to blow on the fire. Brian
tried again. As the sparks hit the bark he gently
blew on the brightest sparks. The red glow from
the sparks spread into the bark. Suddenly the
red glow burst into flames. He had fire. He
started yelling I have fire, I have fire!
    Brian had a friend now. He had a friend
named fire. The fire would also help guard him
against bugs and animals. He looked around and
wished he had someone he could share this moment
with. He wondered what his parents were doing.
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Chapter 10 At first he could not leave the fire.
He kept feeding small branches to the fire. Later
in the day he realized he would have to plan on
how to get through the night. He would need a
large wood supply to get through the night. He
would have to cut and stack the wood before the
sun went down. Then he heard an animal crawling
outside of his shelter and go into the lake. When
he woke up again it was morning. He went outside
of his shelter and saw the tracks from the animal
that had gone into the lake. The tracks went from
a pile of sand into the water. He dug into the
pile of sand. He found eggs in it. He then
realized that it had been a turtle. These eggs
would be food! He pulled out all of the
eggs. There were seventeen eggs in all. They had
a leathery shell on the outside. He used the
hatchet to poke a hole in the egg. Brian drank
the egg. He ate 6 eggs. He stored the rest of the
eggs in his shelter to eat later.
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Chapter 11 There were things Brian had to do. He
transferred the rest of the eggs into his shelter
from the beach. He cleaned up his camp area. With
his camp all cleaned up he had to bring in more
wood. He decided to build a signal fire. He
decided he would have the fire ready to start if
he heard an engine or a plane. As he watched
the lake he saw a kingfisher bird dive into the
lake and come out with a silver fish. There were
fish in the lake. Fish could be food for Brian.
Brian went down to the lake and looked for
fish. He saw many fish that were 3 4 inches
long swimming around him. He saw freshwater
clams, crayfish, and more small round fish. He
tried to grab at the fish but they were too
quick. He had no hooks or net. He could make a
spear to catch the fish in shallow water.
   
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Chapter 12 The fish spear did not work. Brian
had made a 6 feet long staff with a sharp edge.
The fish were too fast. He needed something to
propel the spear at the fish. Brian thought he
needed to invent a bow and arrow. Brian went
looking for a good piece of wood to make his bow.
As he was walking through the woods he was
startled by a feathery bomb underneath his feet.
The explosion frightened him. It was a bird about
the size of a chicken. As Brian was working on
his bow he heard a plane. It was a motor far off
but it was getting closer. The noise from the
plane quickly started to go away. He hoped the
plane would turn and see the smoke. The plane
kept moving away until he could not hear it
anymore. His dreams of being rescued were gone.
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Chapter 13 Brian began looking for one of the
foolish birds he almost stepped on. Brian called
them fool birds. As Brian walked to the other
side of the lake he looked up and saw a bear with
her two cubs. The mother bear stood up and made a
warning noise at Brian. He then heard a noise up
the hill. He turned and saw a large wolf looking
down at him and the bear. Then they all looked at
Brian and walked away. It had been forty
seven days since the crash. He would never be the
same again. After making a strong bow and arrow
he went fishing. He would never forget his first
hit. It was a round golden fish. He had food. For
the rest of the day he kept catching, cooking,
and then eating the fish. He must have eaten
twenty fish that day. As evening was approaching
he laid in his shelter with his belly full of
fish and hope.
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Chapter 14 Brian was still thinking about
mistakes. Small mistakes could turn into
disasters. If he got hurt he could starve to
death. That night while he was asleep something
awakened him. Right near the fire was a skunk.
The skunk turned at Brian and raised his tail
above his head and sprayed. The spray was a
direct hit at Brians face. The thick odor burned
his eyes and stunk up his shelter. He ran to the
lake and put water on his face. He needed to
make his shelter more secure. He started working
on a food shelf that was high up in a tree.
Brian wondered if he could make a small pond to
keep the fish in. For the rest of the afternoon
he carried rocks to the lake and made a small
pond. He made a two foot entrance and wove small
branches together as a gate. Fish would now be
easy to catch. He just didnt know how sick of
fish he could get.
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Chapter 15 Each day became more difficult for
Brian to remember. He counted the days he was
gone by marking a stone near the door of his
shelter. It had been a long time of eating fish
and berries but he craved something more. As
Brian was out collecting wood he noticed there
were the fool birds. Those birds were
everywhere but their camouflage was great.
The next morning Brian set out with his bow and
arrow determined to catch a bird. He decided to
try and use his fish spear. Brian saw a bird near
the lake and lunged at it with his spear. The
spear hit the bird and Brian grabbed the bird
until it was dead. He would have to clean the
bird before he cooked it. To clean the bird he
would have to take off the skin, feathers, and
guts of the bird. Brian saved the feathers to use
on his arrows and started cooking the bird over
the fire. It was the best thing Brian had ever
tasted.
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Chapter 16 Brian used the feathers from the bird
on his arrows. He then went looking for rabbits.
With the new arrows Brian was able to shoot and
kill a large rabbit. As he was cleaning the bird
out by the lake he heard a brushing sound behind
him. As he was turning to see what it was a brown
wall of fur came down on him. He recognized it as
a large moose. The moose knocked him into the
water. The moose continued to run into him
slamming him under water. After a few minutes the
moose left Brian alone and went back to eating.
Brian was hurt. He was able to crawl back to his
shelter. He was woken by a loud noise. It was a
low roaring sound that came from the wind. The
sound was coming closer. The wind sounded like a
train coming straight for him.
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Chapter 16 continued The winds from the tornado
ripped his shelter apart spraying red coals and
sparks all over him. He could hear trees snapping
in the forest and the lake water was slamming in
great waves. It was beautiful and terrible at the
same time. The tornado left as quickly as it
arrived. There was no sign of his shelter, tools,
or bed. His hatchet was the only thing he had
left. He couldnt sleep with the insects biting
and chewing him up. Today had been a horrible
day. In the morning he was eating fish and
rabbits with a bed and shelter and now he had
lost everything. Tomorrow he would rebuild. As
he was sitting by the lake he noticed something
yellow and curved sticking out of the water.
Its the tail of the plane! he said aloud. The
tornado must have flipped the plane over. Brian
thought of the pilot inside of the plane. He
didnt know what to say or do, but just thought
and hoped the pilot could rest and rest forever.
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Chapter 17 Brian continued to work on rebuilding
his shelter and campsite from the tornado. As he
rested in his shelter he thought of what could be
inside the plane. Then he remembered the safety
pack he had seen in the plane.. It could have
many things that could help him. There could be a
sleeping bag, fish hooks, or a radio. After
catching three fish he started to work on a raft
he could use to get to the plane. He worked all
afternoon weaving large limbs together to make a
raft. In the morning he made some changes to
his raft and headed out to the plane. After
stabilizing the raft he tried to break through
the aluminum of the plane. It didnt work. All
the openings of the plane were blocked under
water. He needed to think of a new way to get in.
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Chapter 18 The next morning Brian took his raft
back out to the plane. He continued to look for a
way to get in the plane and get the survival
pack. He took out his hatchet and hit the side of
the plane. The hatchet easily cut through the
aluminum. Then his hatchet dropped. It went
straight into the water and to the bottom. Brian
yelled out in frustration. He needed the hatchet.
He decided to dive down to find the hatchet.
Brian took a deep breath and dove down. He didnt
make it to the bottom on his first try. He took
another breath and dove down. The hatchet handle
was sticking out of the mud. He grabbed the
hatchet and quickly shot to the surface. When
the hole was large enough he crawled into the
plane. He swam into the front of the plane. The
pilot was there. He was dead. Brian quickly
grabbed the survival pack and shot to the
surface.    
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Chapter 19 The Survival pack was filled with
treasures. There was a sleeping bag and foam
sleeping pad! There was an aluminum cook set with
pots, frying pans, and silverware. The kit also
had matches, lighters, compass, first aid kit,
fishing line, lures, soap, food packs, hooks, and
a rifle. There was also a type of radio
device. Brian thought it was a music radio. On
the side Emergency Transmitter was written with
a switch next to it. Brian flipped the switch
back and forth but nothing seemed to happen.
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Chapter 19 Continued. As he was getting water
from the lake he heard a roaring noise above. He
looked and saw that it was a small bush plane.
The plane signaled to him and flew right over
him. The plane turned and landed on the lake. The
pilot told Brian that he heard his emergency
transmitter signal. The pilot then asked
astoundingly youre that kid arent you?.Brian
looked at the pilot and said I am Brian Robenson.
Are you hungry?