Theme: The theme of the story Hatchet is determination, perseverance and survival. Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced, flies to visit his father in Canadian wilderness. His pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian managed to land the plane in a lake, and escape unharmed. Now comes the hard part, surviving in the wilderness until rescued. He does have one tool to help him, a hatchet that his mother had given him as a …showed first 75 words of 1152 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1152 total…the ending to the book, I would make it more realistic. He maybe could find sulfur to make a flare or a search plane would see his smoke signal. He could even try diving over and over again to get back into the plane for the survival pack that he may remember was there. I just think that the tornado was an easy ending for the author and that he should not have used it.