4-25-10
Dear Everyone,
I recently read the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I rated Hatchet a 9.5 out of 10 stars. I gave it a 9.5 because I like the suspense in this book. This book was recommended to me by my 5th grade teacher. I decided not to read it, but this year I heard it was really good so I gave it a shot. And I like it a lot. A reason that I didn’t rate it a 10 is because the ending didn’t really give me much information about what happened after he got rescued. It also just didn’t really tie it all together. That’s just me it may be different for other people.
I was really surprised how fast I got hooked on to this book. By the time I reached the second chapter I couldn’t put the book down. I was totally impressed on the details when the porky pine hit him when he was sleeping. It made me feel like it was me with the needles in my leg. Brian, 13 years old is going to go visit his dad because his parents got a divorce. In the plane on the way to Brian’s dad’s house it’s just him and the pilot. Something bad happens and Brian finds him self alone in the wilderness with only the clothing on his back and a windbreaker with the hatchet that his mom gave him before he left. Now it’s up him and only him to try to save himself. Gary Paulsen does a good of making an interesting setting for the readers.
I wish that Gary Paulsen gave the readers more information about when Brian gets home. It’s kind of just a cliffhanger. The book could have had one more chapter to put everything together. The end was just loose and didn’t really fit with the middle of this book.
The genre of this book is realalistic fiction. You can tell it can happen in today’s world. It could easily have been in the past, but not so far back. It could have also been in the near future but the technology is not different than it is now. Or at least it didn’t seem like it.
A passage from the book that made an impression on me was this: “Dang. You’re him, aren’t you? You’re that kid? They quit looking, a month, no, almost two moths ago. You’re him, aren’t you? You’re that kid…..”
I like this passage for different reasons. One because in the book I was wondering if anyone was looking for Brian. So it gave me that moment where I understood everything, better. Two it makes you think back and make connections with what happened in the begging of the book.
I was most surprised when I found out what was happening to the pilot. I had so many questions. But I just had to find out by reading it. One thing made me think what if I was in Brian’s shoes what would I do? But I had no idea. Another thing that surprised me was when he found a bear and he had to get the only berry’s that he could eat to stay alive.
I liked the way there was only really one main character. It just made me focuses on what was happening to him and not have to worry about the other people. I did think about well what if this person found this and that kind of stuff.
I do not get way people decided t stop looking for Brian. I wonder if they thought he was dead or he got found by someone else.
Your student,
Natalie Corbett
Dear Everyone,
I recently read the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I rated Hatchet a 9.5 out of 10 stars. I gave it a 9.5 because I like the suspense in this book. This book was recommended to me by my 5th grade teacher. I decided not to read it, but this year I heard it was really good so I gave it a shot. And I like it a lot. A reason that I didn’t rate it a 10 is because the ending didn’t really give me much information about what happened after he got rescued. It also just didn’t really tie it all together. That’s just me it may be different for other people.
I was really surprised how fast I got hooked on to this book. By the time I reached the second chapter I couldn’t put the book down. I was totally impressed on the details when the porky pine hit him when he was sleeping. It made me feel like it was me with the needles in my leg. Brian, 13 years old is going to go visit his dad because his parents got a divorce. In the plane on the way to Brian’s dad’s house it’s just him and the pilot. Something bad happens and Brian finds him self alone in the wilderness with only the clothing on his back and a windbreaker with the hatchet that his mom gave him before he left. Now it’s up him and only him to try to save himself. Gary Paulsen does a good of making an interesting setting for the readers.
I wish that Gary Paulsen gave the readers more information about when Brian gets home. It’s kind of just a cliffhanger. The book could have had one more chapter to put everything together. The end was just loose and didn’t really fit with the middle of this book.
The genre of this book is realalistic fiction. You can tell it can happen in today’s world. It could easily have been in the past, but not so far back. It could have also been in the near future but the technology is not different than it is now. Or at least it didn’t seem like it.
A passage from the book that made an impression on me was this: “Dang. You’re him, aren’t you? You’re that kid? They quit looking, a month, no, almost two moths ago. You’re him, aren’t you? You’re that kid…..”
I like this passage for different reasons. One because in the book I was wondering if anyone was looking for Brian. So it gave me that moment where I understood everything, better. Two it makes you think back and make connections with what happened in the begging of the book.
I was most surprised when I found out what was happening to the pilot. I had so many questions. But I just had to find out by reading it. One thing made me think what if I was in Brian’s shoes what would I do? But I had no idea. Another thing that surprised me was when he found a bear and he had to get the only berry’s that he could eat to stay alive.
I liked the way there was only really one main character. It just made me focuses on what was happening to him and not have to worry about the other people. I did think about well what if this person found this and that kind of stuff.
I do not get way people decided t stop looking for Brian. I wonder if they thought he was dead or he got found by someone else.
Your student,
Natalie Corbett
