Setting Details
Brian is "attacked" by these three types of animals.
What are a porcupine, a skunk, and a moose?
These are three things that Brian is proud of having learned while stranded in the wilderness.
What is how to build a fire, how to hunt, how to fish, how to make weapons, or how to build a shelter.
When an author gives hints about events to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Brian's first food other than berries.
What is turtle egg?
During the worst of the first days, Brian suffers a. broken ribs b. sunburn c. dreams of a judge and shouting lawyers d. illness from too many raspberries
What is sunburn? (b)
The point of view from which this story (except when Brian is thinking to himself) is told.
What is third person point of view?
In the end, Brian chooses not to tell his father ___________ .
What is The Secret?
a. It was the great single driving influence in nature. To eat.
b. "Too many of them. Too many gut cherries..."
c. The memory was like a knife cutting into him.
d. Now he stood at the end of the lake and was not the same, would never be the same again.
The main, or central, conflict that Brian faces in this novel.
What is his conflict with nature (his struggle to survive in the wild.)
The story's climax is when Brian tries to kill himself because he is depressed about this.
What is a plane flying over and not rescuing him?
Brian successfully learns to hunt for these two types of animals.
What are rabbits and foolbirds?
When an author tells readers about a character's past, outside of the timeline of the story.
What is flashback?
Brian almost loses this very important asset when he drops it in the lake.
What is the hatchet ?
Failing to be rescued by the first plane could be considered good for Brian because it forces him to learn this.
What is how to survive?
The type of character that Brian is in the novel Hatchet.
What is a dynamic character?
Brian is angry at this character in the beginning of the story.
Who is Mrs. Robeson?