The Crash
This is where Brian was heading when the plane crashed.
What is Canada to visit his father?
This is the only item Brian has with him after he crashes.
What is a hatchet?
This is the narrator of the story.
Who is Brian?
"Mosquitos made a living coat on his exposed skin" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This person was farting a lot. Who was farting and why?
Who is the pilot and what is having a heart attack?
This problem covers Brian's body and bites him when the sun begins to rise.
What are mosquitos?
Brian keeps thinking about the Secret. This is what the Secret is.
What is his mom cheating?
The pilot clutched this body part in pain during his heart attack.
What is his abdomen?
This is the reason Brian chose to land in the lake rather than the forest.
What is he would die if he landed in the trees?
What does Brian name the food that makes him sick?
What are gut cherries?
Brian feels unlucky because of two things. These are the two things that make Brian feel unlucky.
What is landing in the forest and having a mom who cheated?
This word describes how the water was hard to see through.
What is murky?
Brian fears they will never find him because of this reason.
What is the plane flew off course?
This wakes Brian up during his first night in the shelter.
What is stomach pain?
Brian remembers watching a TV show about air force pilots in a survival course. This is the thing the flashback teaches readers about Brian.
What is Brian uses his knowledge to solve problems?
Read this sentence: "she leaned across and kissed him, kissed the man with the short blond hair, and it was not a friendly peck, but a kiss." Peck in this context means this.
What is a light kiss?
After the crash, Brian goes back and forth between reality and imagination because of this.
What is a head injury and trauma from the crash?
When Brian sees a bear eating raspberries, he understands this about the animal.
What is it did not want to hurt him?
Mr. Perpich says this that Brian most remembers.
What is "you are your own most valuable asset?"
Read this sentence: "the trees were not all the way down but twisted and snapped off halfway from the ground, so their tops were all down and rotted and gone, leaving the snags poking into the sky like rotten teeth." The word snags means this.
What is small pieces of broken trees?