Hatchet, it's a good read, so just read it smh.

In class, I read Hatchet. I have been thinking about the author's message.  We had to write a reading response to the book in testing conditions. here it is :P
                                                    

                                                   

During my time in room s2 as a year 7 student,I have come across Hatchet, a book written by author Gary Paulson and has a wonderful,yet unpredictable story. This book has taught me a lot of skills and tricks that may very well be useful to me in the upcoming future and has given me motivation to keep pushing  through the school year.

To sum up this book, it is about a young 13 year old boy named Brian Robeson,he sets out to see his father who is currently residing in Canada but cannot do so since his airplane has crashed into the Canadian wilderness. As the book progresses on Brian is challenged to survive on his own in the Canadian forests wandering endlessly,hoping help comes for him. The longer he stayed in the forest,the more survival skills he had, Brian fights for his life until he is saved, eventually concluding the book.

Now that you know all about the book I want to talk about the message that the author Gary Paulson is trying to send us. What I think this book is trying to do is it is trying to set us up for the real world, once you have reached that certain point in your life you are on your own, you need to get a job, you need to make money, you need to know how to survive and that is what this book is teaching us, it is teaching us how to set ourselves up for success but in a entertaining way. The message that we are receiving from this book is to always learn from your mistakes and try to improve to get a better outcome/result. In this book Brian tries many different and unique ways to get what he wants, you can't get something instantly,you have to work for it.

 During chapter 10 Brian tries to light a fire with his hatchet and a rock. He tears up a twenty dollar bill to improvise for paper,unfortunately this does not work, the first attempt failed. Later on he tried to use thin birch strips to light the fire, again his attempts made no progress whatsoever, attempt two, failed. Finally on his third attempt he decided to put the twenty dollar bill and the birch strips together and alas, it worked. He was finally warm. You can see that this chapter is a good example of learning from your mistakes and trying new/unique ways to succeed, If you just have the right mindset and enough motivation you can achieve anything.To sum this all up, mistakes are good and we need to learn from them. We need to learn new things everyday to improve and we need to always find the good side of things, in other words stay positive. Find your source of motivation and keep pushing forward. If you keep learning you will be successful in life and spend the rest of your days with a smile on your face.

This book changed my life and hopefully it will change yours too.