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Hatchet is a book about a 13 year old kid named Brian who crash lands in the Canadian wilderness and has to survive on his own. Brian is flying to Alaska to visit his dad for the summer when suddenly the pilot has a heart attack and dies. He grabs onto the controls and tries to land the plane but there's no flat area so he decides to crash into a lake. He hustles out of the plane with his hatchet at his side and swims to the shore. Hatchet is the story of his survival in the wilderness with only a hatchet. Hatchet takes place in the wilderness of Canada. This setting is important because he has no man made tools or food. He has to use the natural resources and his brain. Brian uses his hatchet to make a shelter and weapons. He chops down branches and sets them up for his shelter. "With the branches he interlaced and wove a wall of the opening of the front of the rocks." (p.65) Then he goes to get grass to put on top of the branches. He uses the shelter to protect him from......

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