Hatchet Review

5. A person, animal, or other figure in a story.
8. The country where Brian becomes stranded.
9. The time and place in which a story occurs.
10. Brian makes this beneath a rock overhang near the lake.
11. Brian discovers these when his hatchet strikes the rock wall.
13. The thirteen-year-old main character who must survive alone in the Canadian wilderness.
14. A struggle or problem a character must face.
15. Brian crash-lands here and later depends on it for water and food.
17. Brian’s nickname for the birds he learns to hunt for meat.
19. Brian encounters this large animal while gathering raspberries.
20. These insects attack Brian in huge numbers after the crash.
21. This animal enters Brian’s shelter at night and injures his leg.
22. This violent storm destroys Brian’s shelter and exposes the crashed plane.
23. The gift from Brian’s mother that becomes his most important survival tool.
25. This keeps mosquitoes away and can also be used as a rescue signal.
26. The medical emergency that suddenly leaves Brian alone in the air.
27. The quality Brian shows when he keeps trying after failures.

1. Staying alive despite danger, hunger, injury, isolation, and the wilderness.
2. This animal leaves a nest near the lake that provides Brian with food.
3. The ways an author shows what a character is like.
4. Brian builds this to reach the crashed airplane.
6. An important food source Brian learns to catch from the lake using a spear.
7. A conclusion reached by combining clues from the text with what you already know.
11. The collection of emergency supplies Brian retrieves from the airplane.
12. Brian finds this weapon in the survival pack but feels strangely separated from the wilderness when holding it.
16. The vehicle Brian must try to fly after the pilot becomes unable to control it.
18. One of Brian’s first attempts at finding food.
19. Brian eventually makes this weapon to improve his hunting, but nearly blinds himself with it.
20. This animal suddenly attacks Brian in the lake late in the novel.
24. Brian unknowingly activates this emergency device from the survival pack.