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Student Name:_________________________Class Period:______Orth’s English Class

Hatchet Novel Study GuideSetting: ____________________________________________________________________________

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Key Facts: ____________________________________________________________________________

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Characters:1. Brian Robeson:_____________________________________________________________

2. Jim or Jake:_______________________________________________________________

3. Brian’s Mother:_____________________________________________________________

4. Brian’s Father:_____________________________________________________________

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Symbols:1. The Hatchet:_______________________________________________________________

2. The Plane:________________________________________________________________

3. The Rifle:_________________________________________________________________

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Author of Hatchet: ____________________________________________________________________________

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Quick-Write: Write two-three sentences explaining what you would do if you were left alone in

the wilderness and had to survive on your own.

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Study Guide Directions: Questions should be answered in sentence form, providing the page

number the answer was found on below. Students should be using the class time given to use


the book to answer questions and provide the page number. The longer writing prompts should

be answered in paragraph form, in 5-7 complete sentences.

CHAPTER ONE:1. Describe the setting, the time and place, at the beginning of the story.

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2. How old is Brian Robeson?

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3. Why is Brian unable to carry on a conversation with the pilot?

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4. With what single word did his thinking always begin?

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5. What was “The Secret”? (what we know of it so far)

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6. Why is the pilot rubbing his shoulder?

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7. What has Brian’s father designed or invented?

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8. Where is his father presently working?

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9. What would have happened if Brian had gone through regular airport security in today’s

world? (Think of the gift his mother gave him.)

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10. Explain how Chapter One ends.

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11. What title would you give this chapter? Explain why your title fits this chapter in 5-7 sen-

tence.


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CHAPTER TWO:1. How did Brian initially react to the situation he is in?

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2. What motivated Brian to finally attempt to fly the plane?

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3. Explain how Brian called for help and describe what happened.

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4. What will eventually happen to the plane?

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5. Why did Brian think the best place to set down the plane was the edge of the lake?

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6. Describe what happened immediately after the plane’s engine coughed and died.

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7. In this chapter, it is clear that Brian is filled with conflicting thoughts and emotions. Give ONE

example of Internal Conflict that Brian is dealing with. Remember: Internal Conflict is a problem

the character is dealing with inside their minds: a decision or problem to solve.

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8. Chronological Order is the order of events that happen in a story. Put Chapters One and Two

in Chronological Order. You will have a list of 10 events.

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CHAPTER THREE:1. What suddenly disappeared as Brian put the plane into a fast glide?

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2. What did he think he saw near the edge of the pond?

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3. What stroke of good luck did he have just as he approached the lake for his landing?

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4. Describe the actual scene at the moment of the crash, including his escape from the plane, in

2-3 sentence.

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5. Chapter One ended with one word, “Alone”, while Chapter Three also ended with one word,

“Nothing”. Explain in 2-3 sentences why you think the author, Gary Paulsen, did this.

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6. Do you think the author realistically portrays Brian in this chapter? Does Brian seem like he

could be a real boy, struggling with this situation? Explain your answer and why you think he is

(or is not) a believable character in 5-7 sentences.

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7. Write one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, giving Brian advice on what he should do now.

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8. Write one sentence predicting what you think will happen in Chapter Four.

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CHAPTER FOUR:1. Explain what “The Secret” is, in 2-3 sentences.

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2. What happened to the plane?

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3. What made Brian uncomfortable, just as the sun began to rise?

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4. Describe in 2-3 sentences how you might feel if you were in Brian’s situation.

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Read the following and label each sentence either: Metaphor, Idiom, or Simile.

5. __________________“The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane’s

nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers.”

6. __________________ “The pilot seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane.”7. __________________ “Brian went back to looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes.”8. __________________ “He would normally have said no, that it looked too hokey to have a

hatchet on your belt.”

9. __________________ “Those were the normal things he would say, but her voice had a sound like something thin that would break if you touched it.”10. _________________ “Now a jolt took him like a hammerblow, so forcefully that he

seemed to crush back into the seat.”

CHAPTER FIVE:1. What overpowering craving did Brian have when he initially woke up?


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2. What had happened to his face while he slept?

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3. What happened to Brian’s determination to take only a small drink from the lake?

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4. Why was Brian so sure, at first, that the search plane would find him within a day or two?

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5. Make a list of all the things that Brian has in his possessions, including his clothes:

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6. Make a second list, put every item in order of importance to Brian’s survival:

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7. According to Brian’s former English teacher, what was a person’s most important assess? Do

you agree or disagree? Explain your opinion in 5-7 sentences.

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8. Why did Brian feel the hair on the back of his neck go up at the end of this Chapter?

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9. Are you like Brian or are you different? Write one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, explaining how

you are alike and different.

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CHAPTER SIX:1. Describe Brian’s new shelter:

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2. Why does Brian decide to eat before constructing the lean-to?

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3. Explain why the author write the word Secret with a capital letter.

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4. Why does Brian stay close to the lake while searching for food?

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5. Using Brian’s description, what type of bird do you think was eating the berries?

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6. Why did Brian almost spit out the berries?

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7. Looking at the introduction notes you took on the first page, which Theme do you think has

been most emphasized, or used? Explain your answer and give examples to support your an-

swer in one paragraph.

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8. What is the Main Idea of Chapter Six? What is the main thing that happened?

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9. Brian’s plane crashing and him being stranded in the wilderness is an Effect, the result of

something. What is the Cause? What caused Brian to fly to Canada in the first place?

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CHAPTER SEVEN:


1.Why did Brian wake up in the middle of the night?

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2. Why did Brian crawl out of his shelter?

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3. What memory did he have upon returning to the shelter?

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4. Why did Brian slap the water with his hand?

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5. How do we know that Brian is becoming comfortable with his shelter? What does he call it?

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6. What type of food is he delighted to find?

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7. What does Brian stumble upon in the bush?

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8. Why does Brian come to a stop after initially fleeing the area?

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9. What does he discover when he looks back?

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10. Why did Brian place the hatchet by his head when he went to sleep that evening?

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11. Conflict is the main problem the character faces. What is Brian’s Conflict in this chapter?

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12. Think of who Brian was at the beginning of the book, think of Brian now as we know him, in

Chapter Seven. Write one paragraph explaining how Brian has changed and how he has stayed

the same. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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CHAPTER EIGHT:1. What woke Brian in the middle of the night?

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2. Explain the cause of the musty smell in his shelter that night.

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3. What important rule of survival did Brian learn?

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4. Explain how Brian fought off the intruder.

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5. What did Brian experience when he removed the quills from his leg?

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6. Why did Brian feel it was important to make a staff or lance for himself?

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7. How does Brian interpret his dream?

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8. What important discovery does Brian make when he examines the rock at the end of this

chapter?

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9. What is the Theme, or “Big Idea” of this chapter? Remember: Theme is the life lesson we

learn about the topic. Explain the Theme in 2-3 sentences.

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10. In one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, explain what brings Brian hope in Chapter Eight.

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CHAPTER NINE:1. Why was Brian so willing to use money to help start his fire?

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2. What kind of home did Brian construct?

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3. How long did it take Brian to build the home?

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4. What key element was still missing that prevented the fire from igniting?

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5. Describe how Brian felt when the “nest” finally burst into flames.

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6. Explain why Brian described his new “friend” as hungry.

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7. Why did the fire trigger Brian’s memory of his encounter with the porcupine?

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8. A summary is putting the important facts of what you read into your own words, and making it

shorter. Write a one paragraph summary of what we have read so far in Hatchet.

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Identify the type of Figurative Language of the following sentences from Hatchet: Ono-

matopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Personification.

9. __________________ “For a second, all he heard was the whusssh of the empty air waves.”

10. _________________ “Brian felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling

through the sky.”

11. _________________ “The skin was cold, hard cold, death cold.”

12. _________________ “Between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without

a warning, the engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died.”

13. _________________ “He slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground

— all like a picture.”CHAPTER TEN:1. Why did Brian refuse to leave the fire at first?

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2. How did he resolve the problem of leaving the fire?

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3. How large was his initial stockpile of wood?

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4. What good things did Brian get from the fire, that he had not planned on?

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5. Describe what Brian found under a pile of sand.

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6. What did Brian do with his new find?

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7. Why was he unable to cook his food?

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8. Give examples of Brian staying positive, even though his situation in the wild is dangerous.

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9. External Conflict is when a character struggles with an outside force: another character or na-

ture. Give ONE example of External Conflict from Chapter Ten.

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10. Find an example from this chapter where Brian is learning to view things differently in order

to adapt, or change, to his new environment.

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11. If you were Brian, how would you document, or keep track of, important events that have

taken place so far?

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12. How does Brian starting a fire, in this chapter, signal a new beginning or a new phase, for

Brian? Explain in 5-7 sentences.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN:1. Where did Brian store the remaining eggs?

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2. Why was cleaning the camp a laughing matter?

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3. What was Brian’s suggestion for avoiding depression?

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4. Explain in 2-3 complete sentences how Brian’s boded and mind had changed.

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5. How did the sight of the kingfisher awaken him to a new source of food?

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6. How does Brian hope to get this new source of food?

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7. Explain why the author kept repeating, “there were these things to do”, in this chapter.

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8. What details does Gary Paulsen include to help you understand Brian’s state of mind in this

chapter?

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9. What was Gary Paulsen’s purpose for writing Hatchet? To inform us, entertain us, or per-

suade us to do something? Explain your answer in 2-3 sentences.

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10. Give Chapter Eleven a Title:___________________________________________________

11. What realization does Brian come to in this chapter?

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CHAPTER TWELVE:1. How does Brian modify, or change, his spear in an attempt to make it work better?

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2. What did he discover after spending hours changing his spear?

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3. What sudden explosion terrified Brian?

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4. What is the source of the persistent whining noise?


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5. Why is Brian so upset at the end of this chapter?

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6. Write one prediction you think will happen in Chapter Thirteen.

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7. If you could ask the author, Gary Paulsen some questions, what would you ask him? Come

up with three questions.

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8. What conclusions can you make about the story Hatchet, based on Brian’s experiences in

this chapter?

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9. Find examples of two extreme differences in Brian’s mental or emotional state from this chap-

ter. Explain these two extremes in one paragraph. (For example, extremely sad to extremely

mad.)

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:1. An Inference is an educated guess about what you have read. Based on the first sentence

of Chapter Thirteen, what inference can you make?

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2. Why was Brian looking for one of the fool birds?

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3. What other animals did Brian encounter on his search for the flock of fool birds?

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4. What event marked the passing of the “old” Brian and the birth of a “new” one?

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5. Describe Brian’s first try at making a bow and arrow.

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6. Why was Brian unsuccessful when he first used his bow and arrow to fish?

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7. What new hope does Brian have by the end of this chapter?

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8. What is the Theme, or life lesson, from this Chapter?

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9. In one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, explain the similarities and differences of Brian living in the

city and in the wilderness.

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10. Give Chapter Thirteen a Title:_________________________________________________

11. What factors caused the “old” Brian to die and the “new” Brian to be born?

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN:1. Explain the difference between a mistake in the city and a mistake made in the wilderness.

Which one is more serious?

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2. Why did Brian attempt to chase the skunk away from his campsite?

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3. Explain how Brian’s encounter with the skunk had almost deadly results.


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4. How long did it take for Brian to improve his shelter so that he would be safer from the ele-

ments of weather, and the creatures of the wild?

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5. What “constant” problem did Brian face in the wilderness?

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6. Describe Brian’s new location for storing his food securely.

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7. How was he able to reach this new location?

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8. How was Brian able to get a ready supply of fresh fish for his diet?

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9. Explain in one paragraph how Brian’s thoughts and actions in this chapter help you learn

more about his character traits. Character Traits are what kind of person he is: loyal, thoughtful,

mean, a bully, giving, tough, or strong.

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10. Describe Brian’s relationship with Nature in 2-3 sentences.

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN:1. What special day was burned into Brian’s memory?

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2. What secret clue finally helped Brian see the birds before they exploded into flight?

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3. Explain how Brian finally got the bird.

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4. What problem did he face once he had killed the bird?

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5. How does the author make us aware of Brian’s appreciation for the new food?

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6. Make a connection with this chapter and something you have read or experienced. Write 2-3

sentences of this connection.

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7. Conflict is the main problem the character faces. What conflict does Brian face in this chap-

ter?

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8. Free-Write: Hatchet is Realistic Fiction. Write one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, that is Realistic

Fiction. Remember, it is a story that seems like it could really happen, but the story is not true.

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9. What do you think Brian’s mother and father are doing while Brian tries to survive in the

wilderness? Explain what they might be doing in one paragraph.

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN:1. Why was Brian able to reassure himself despite the fact he was always hungry?

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2. Describe the method Brian had perfected when hunting birds, in 2-3 sentences.

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3. What was the telltale sign that a bird was about to fly away?

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4. What incident indicates that Brian had become a highly skilled hunter of birds?

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5. Describe the moose attack on Brian in 2-3 sentences.

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6. What is the telltale sign that a moose is angry?

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7. What woke Brian up that night while he slept in his shelter?

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8. What is sticking six to eight inches out of the water after the tornado passes?

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9. Explain in 2-3 sentences how the weather affects Brian in the wilderness.

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10. Fact is something that is true and can be proven. Opinion is someone’s thoughts about a

subject, but may not be necessarily true. Find one example of Fact and one example of Opinion,

from Chapter Sixteen.


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11. In one paragraph, explain how you would solve Brian’s problem from this chapter.

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:1. Why does Brian have to work slowly?

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2. Why was being seriously injured the same as being killed?

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3. Why did Brian’s eyes suddenly snap open at the thought of the plane’s tail sticking out of the

water?

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4. Why did he decide to build a raft?

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5. How long did it take him to push the raft out to the plane?

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6. What caused Brian to shudder when he thought of the front of the plane?

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7. Free-Write: Make a list of 3 things you would take with you to survive in the wild. Only three

things. Write a story that explain how you would use those three things to survive. Your story

should fill all of the lines provided. Use Brian’s story to help you decide what to bring.

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:1. What does Brian discover when he slams his fist against the plane in frustration?

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2. What does Brian compare the aluminum covering to, as he cuts through it with the hatchet?

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3. What causes Brian to rage at his own carelessness?

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4. Describe Brian’s second attempt at getting the hatchet.

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5. How does Brian react to the gruesome, or gross, scene he encounters in the plane?

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6. How do we know that Brian was exhausted when he finally got back to shore?

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7. Create a timeline of events for this chapter. Put the chapter in order with 10 events.

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8. What is the Tone of this chapter? Tone is the mood the author creates through word use.

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CHAPTER NINETEEN AND EPILOGUE:1. Make a list of some of the unbelievable riches Brian found.

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2. How did he relight the fire this time and explain what this signifies.

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3. Explain why he had up and down feelings about the survival pack.

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4. What happened that lead to Brian’s rescue? Explain in 2-3 sentences.

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5. Explain why Brian’s question at the end of Chapter Nineteen was rather unusual.

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6. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?

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7. How much weight did Brian lose during his time in the wilderness?

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8. What did Brian find himself doing in grocery stores for years afterwards?


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9. In the Epilogue, the author gives his opinion on what might have happened had Brian not

been rescued. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your opinion in 2-3 sentences.

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10. In one paragraph, 5-7 sentences, write an alternate ending to the book Hatchet.

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