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Hatchet Summary
Plot Diagram
Exposition
Exposition
This story begins with thirteen year old Brian getting on a plane to visit his father in Canada. His parents had divorced, and the secrets and splits that Brian was aware about was what he thought about most of the time, and it was hard on him knowing all of that. He was driven to the plane in Hampton New York by his mother. She had given him a hatchet to carry since his father lived in the woods of Canada. The plane Brian was boarding was a small delivery plane with only the pilot and himself. The pilot taught Brian a little bit about flying a plane
Inciting Incident
Insighting Incident
Once the plane took off and Brian was headed towards his father, the pilot begins to experience increasing pain in his shoulders and stomach. The pain gets worse and worse until he starts to have spasms and Brian knows that he is having a heart attack. He tries radioing for help but was not successful due to the week signal connection in the wilderness. From the very brief flying lesson that Brian was taught from the pilot, he manages to guide the plane into a nearby lake and gets to shore. Brian passes out once he reached the shore.
Rising Action
Rising
Action
- For the first couple of nights, Brian's only food source was getting berries that he spotted in a nearby tree.
- After a while he got sick and realized that the berries were poisonous.
- Brian continued with his conditions to keep himself alive by creating shelter, and adapting to his surroundings
Climax
Brian remembers that there was a survival pack somewhere on the plane and is crucial that he gets it. Brian finding the survival pack is the climax in my opinion because this was a choice that he made and the story begins to very slowly resolve after the he finds the survival pack
Climax
Falling Action
Falling
Action
- After many failed attempts to build a raft, Brian finally manages to successfully make a raft, dive down into the plane, get the survival pack and get out. Inside the pack was a device that Brian did not know how to use, instant made food, and other goods.
- Brian sees another plane flying and gives it his all to get the pilots attention. He is successful with getting its attention and the plane comes down to get Brian. When the pilot comes to talk to Brian, he tells him that there was a tracker and the device that was in the survival pack was none other than a tracker. He also tells Brian that he has spent over two months in the wilderness and everyone thought he was dead
Resolution
Resolution
Brian gets home to his mother and she tells him how he was all over the news and how much she had missed him. Brian later on tells reporters how he survived over 2 months in the wilderness by himself