Hatchet:By Gary Paulsen

Quote 1:"Stupid, he thought. I was stupid to think I could just come out here and get inside the plane. Nothing is that easy. Not out here, not in this place. Nothing is easy."(pg.62, chapter 18) -Brians tries to swim and take out the survival pack that is in the plane, burried in lake. When he had thougth about this idea, he had built a raft to row to center of the lake where the plane was burried. He thought the plane was open and he can just enter and get the survival pack, so he started cursing himself on his situation when he realized while swimming in the murky water that there would be no opeing to enter the plane and he would have to cut his way through to enter the plane with the help of his hatchet. This reinforces that life is not easy and one has to overcome many challenges at every step.

 

Quote 2: "The peace finally came to him and he settled his breathing. He was still a long way from being finished—had a lot of work to do."(pg.65, chapter 18) - Brian , while pulling out the survival kit out of the plane burried in the lake glimpsed at the  cockpit and saw the skull and body of the the pilot. He was disgusted by the fact that the fishes he has been eating could be eating the the pilots head, and he felt sick whie thinking about it. However,Brian has learnt to control his emotions while struggling for his life in the wilderness. Here we see that Brian tries to overcome his feeling of disgust by taking deep breaths and diverting his mind to the sceneary and greenary around him to calm himself and continue with his task at hand of retreiving the survival pack.

 

Quote 3: "He had done it. That's all he could think now. He had done it."(pg. 65, chapter 19) -Brian feels that he has achieved a massive task of retrieving the survival pack from the plane. He overcame the challenges of cutting the plane, feeling disgust and horror by the ghostly sight of the the pilot that was dead and decomposed by the fish, murky water, and the weight of the survival pack. He feels proud of himself on acheiving such a big goal, and also confident. He thinks that now he can spend his life in the wilderness if nobody comes to rescue him.