The Hatchet is about a boy named Brian Robeson and he gets stranded in northern Canada when the pilot of the plane he is on has a heart attack. He is left without food and shelter. This is the story about how he survived. He has a dad who lived up in Canada. Brian was on his way to see him because his mother had cheated on his father and divorced him, so his father …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…saved by a fur trapper and went home. When everyone heard his story they had the press all over it. It slowly died down. He came home wanting to tell his father the secret he knew but he didn't, and his mother had still kept seeing the guy she cheated on his father with. Life went back to normal except for the fact that he was a changed boy and never would be the same.