Theme The theme of the story Hatchet is determination and survival. Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced, flies to visit his father who is in the Canadian wilderness. His pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian managed to land the plane in a lake, and escape unharmed. Now there is only one problem and that is surviving in the wilderness until he is finally rescued. He does have one thing to help him, a …showed first 75 words of 1193 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1193 total…the ending to the book, I would make it more realistic. He maybe could find sulfur to make a flare or a search plane would see his smoke signal. He could even try diving over and over again to get back into the plane for the survival pack that he may remember was there. I just think that the tornado was an easy ending for the author and that he should not have used it.