🪓 Brian
This is the name of the main character.
Who is Brian Robeson?
Brian is traveling in this type of aircraft.
What is a small bush plane?
After the crash, Brian finds himself surrounded by this.
What is the wilderness/forest?
Brian feels this emotion when he realizes he is completely alone.
What is fear?
Brian is flying from New York to this country.
What is Canada?
Why does Brian's hatchet become more than just a tool after the crash?
It represents his connection to his mother and becomes an important survival tool.
Brian is traveling to Canada to visit this person.
Who is his father?
This person is flying the plane.
Who is the pilot?
Brian's most immediate need after the crash is this.
What is staying alive/surviving?
Brian thinks repeatedly about this painful event in his family life.
What is his parents' divorce?
Brian is wearing this item when he is flying.
What is a hatchet?
What does Brian's repeated thoughts about "the Secret" reveal about how he is dealing with his parents' divorce?
He is emotionally struggling with what happened and feels guilt, pain, and confusion.
Brian's parents are going through this major life change.
What is a divorce?
The pilot suddenly suffers from this medical emergency.
What is a heart attack?
Brian realizes that he needs to find this basic necessity.
What is food?
Brian's thoughts about "the Secret" make him feel this way.
What is guilty/upset/angry?
Brian crashes the plane into what?
What is a lake?
Brian initially thinks about giving up. What does this reveal about his state of mind?
He is overwhelmed and frightened, but he has not yet learned how to cope with his situation.
Brian carries this important gift from his mother.
What is a hatchet?
Brian attempts to use this part of the plane to communicate for help.
What is the radio?
Brian uses this tool to help him survive.
What is his hatchet?
Brian's thoughts sometimes make his situation worse because he does this.
What is panics/gives in to negative thinking?
After the crash, Brian realizes there is no one around to help him. This begins the novel's main conflict: Brian versus this.
What is nature/the wilderness?
Why does the author spend so much time describing Brian's thoughts after the crash instead of immediately showing him finding food or shelter?
much time describing Brian's thoughts after the crash instead of immediately showing him finding food or shelter? It shows Brian's emotional transformation and allows readers to understand his fear and confusion before he begins adapting.
Brian's memories of his parents' divorce are connected to this phrase.
What is "the Secret"?
Brian eventually has to take control of the plane because of this reason.
What happened to the pilot? He died.
Brian begins to understand that surviving will require him to stop feeling sorry for himself and do this.
What is think/problem-solve/take action?
Why is Brian's ability to think clearly especially important after the crash?
Because he must make decisions and solve problems without anyone else to help him.
By Chapter 4, Brian has begun to realize that survival depends heavily on this ability.
What is thinking/problem-solving?
Inference: How does the plane crash change Brian's relationship with his own thoughts?
Brian begins to realize that negative thinking can make survival harder, while clear thinking and problem-solving can help him survive.