10/01
Brian Robeson,
the main character, is a very interesting kid.
After the first few pages you could tell that he was strong-minded,
twelve or thirteen year old kid. His
parents were divorced and he spent some time with his dad. He lived far away so Brian had to take a
plane. From the back of the book I knew
that he gets in to a plane accident and has to survive on his own. I was surprised that the author went right to
the plane wreck. I thought it would have
a somewhat boring beginning like most other books I read. Brian keeps talking
about how his parents got divorced and he cries every time he thinks about
it. He calls it the big
"secret." Brian keeps
describing visions of his mom kissing some new man, not his father. You can tell that he takes the divorce very
seriously and sometimes gets emotional.
10/05
In this part of the book, Jake, the pilot, has
a heart attack and dies. To be honest,
I, myself, have thought about what I would do if I was on plane and the pilot
died. I really don't know what I would
do, I don't know how to fly a plane.
Luckily, Brian had been taught by Jake how to fly the plane. Brian didn't know how to land so he flew the
plane into a lake. This part of the book
was hard to believe, there was a lot of "coincidents." Brian showed his intellectual side when he
realized that when Jake was suffering from his heart attack he turned the plane
to the left. That could greatly increase
the time it would take for a search party to find him. I have to admit, so far this is one of the
best opening parts I have ever read. No
dull pages.
10/08
After Brian crashed he was hurt pretty
badly. He ad no energy so he just slept
on the shore. I consider him very
luckily that he did not blow up or something.
After awhile he was extremely hungry.
He found a gut cherry bush. He
ate so many he threw up. This is another
part that seems strange to me, I mean I wouldn't have clue to know how to
survive in a deserted place. However,
Brian did. He had seen some TV show
about how to live in the wilderness. He
wove together sticks to make a door for the cave he found. He tried to make a fire but he failed. Brian already got in some trouble with the
wildlife, a bear chased him. I am glad
that I have never had to go through what Brian is going through. It would seem impossible for me to live in
the woods.
10/12
Brian was very cold. He couldn't figure out how to make a
fire. There was a small animal in his
cave and he through his knife that his mother gave him before he left at it and
he hit the wall, it made a shower of sparks.
This is where Brian's wit came into play. He put two and two together and used the
sparks to make a fire. I am very
impressed with the way he is handling the problems he is running into. He is showing me that he is brave. The fire kept him warm and misquotes
away. It sounds like to me that Brian is
starting to make a home for himself. I
wonder if he is going to survive and make it home back to his family.
10/16
I noticed that Brian is starting to have
physical and emotional changes. His
wounds have healed and his stomach has caved in. He is going to have to get some more food or
he is going to die. He made spear to
catch fish in the lake. He is trying to
make a bow and arrow to catch birds. I
think he really misses home now. A
plane flew near him and he tried to make a smoke signal but it was to late. This really depressed him. I mean think about it, he has a good chance
of dying, he is hungry, basically he is miserable. After the plane didn't see him, he wanted to
commit suicide. He cut his wrists, not
enough to kill him and then went to sleep.
When he woke up, he had dried blood all over him. He hated what he did. I think it made him a stronger person
though. It made realize he is going to
try his hardest to survive. I don't know
how he is going to get home.
10/19
In this part of the book Brian is experiencing
animals of the wild. He eats many fish
and now can catch birds. To me, everything
seems to be going pretty good. Things
are starting to work out. He gets in a
fight with a big animal. I t hurts him
pretty badly. The worst possible thing
happens to him. He changes
everything. It makes him just want to
give up. A huge storm comes over him and
ruins everything. He has to start all
over again. Everything he made is
gone. I think that would be the point
where I would give up.
10/21
All he had was his hatchet. I think the hatchet is a symbol of starting
over again. That is all he had in the
beginning too. Good things come out of
bad things though. The storm moved part
ofthe plane out of the water. He eventually
makes a raft and makes a hole the plane.
Inside he finds a survival pack.
He eats the food and looks at all the stuff. He plays with a S.O.S. gadget. A plane picks him up and saves him. It is weird to Brian having all the stuff in
the survival pack that made life so much easier. There was a gun in it, but I don't think he
would of used it over the spear and bow and arrow he made. I think that using the things he made from
nature is fair to the animals. It was
hard for him, but he eventually learns.
A gun would be unfair, it seems so barbarian even though it is modern
compared to the spear and bow and arrow.
I think Brian s now a man, his life has took a complete U-Turn. I have respect for him even if he is just a
character in a book, he is a brave man.
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