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Still working on the fire, Brian begins to lose hope. Brian had been making sparks, and only sparks for the last few hours with no fire. Suddenly it happened, when he hit the black rock with his axe a ember gracefully flew down onto his makeshift fire and BOOM, the ember lit up the materials he had gathered and started a small flame,"progress," he thought to himself. With the flame came the fire and with that, hope.

With a new goal that would help him indefinitely, he started building his fire. He gathered as much wood as he could carry, including bark off of dead and burnt trees. It had been almost two hours of collecting wood now, he had to hurry up it was almost afternoon. By 3 he had a good supply of wood and bark, enough to begin the fire. Just like that, swinging his axe on the black rock,he started trying to make fire.

Even with his leg in awful pain, Brian hugs his leg and forces himself back to sleep. When Brian wakes up unsurprisingly the pain is still there, worried about possibly being poisoned, one after another he plucks out a total of 9 quills from his leg. He then tries to take his mind off the wound and focus on a new problem. He needed a fire, and fast. Brian could use the fire to signal for help, and keep bugs at rest.

Now it was going good for Brian. He had enough berries for sustenance and decided it was time to have some rest and went to sleep. While he is sleeping, Brian suddenly wakes up to a weird sound nearby, something moving. Brian then panics and starts kicking his feet and threw his trusty hatchet aimlessly hoping to hit whatever was making that sound"what if its a bear" Then He gets hit with the pain.Its a Porcupine!

Brian was now mainly just hungry so obviously he knew that he needed to find food, fast. Brian had wandered about 50 yards away from his makeshift shelter,searching for food. 30 minutes having passed he found them, tons of berries. He was starving and could not help himself, so he ate, and ate some more until his belly was full and his body was aching. He went back to camp with some berries in his pockets.

Brian is officially awake from his body powering down after the crash. He is sore, hungry and most of all, thirsty. Luckily for Brian, he has a crystal clean lake right next to him, for the most part at least. In a desperate dash for something to drink, he lunges towards the lake and swallows more and more water until he is to full to even handle, then his suffering body pukes it all up. "what do i do now?"

So far in Hatchet, during Brians flight to Canada, the pilot came across a severe heart attack and was then confirmed by Brian, to be dead. After a while, Brian decided it was up to him to either find a lake to attempt to land the plane or keep going until the gas runs out and the engine makes a hopeless attempt to keep flying.

Today I read a little bit of the book called Hatchet. It starts with a 13 year old boy named Brian, Undergoing the losses of his parents divorce. The first chapter consists of Brian in a bush plane on his way to New York City. Brian is going to New York City to visit his father during his summer holidays. Because of the divorce Brian is forced to visit his mother during school, and his father during his summer break.