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Brians plane crashed
When Brian was on his way to his father in a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian tries to land it and eventually crashes in a L shaped lake in the middel of nowhere. The plane sunk but he swam up to the surface, his only posession a hatchet his mother gave him when he left. The first night was terrible and he was stung by mosquitoes all through the night. -
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Brians Survival
Bibliography:
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Print. "Cessna 406." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Nov. 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2013. "Hatchet." Hatchet. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2013. -
Brian starts surviving
Brian tries to find food for the night. After searching around a bit he found a cave to spend the night. After a unsuccessfull atempt to catch fish with his bare hads he finds some berry's. -
Brian makes fire
One night a porcupine enterd his shelter. When Brian hears him scutteling he throws a rock at him. He misses and hits the wall but then he sees sparks. The next day he uses this to make fire. -
Brian has leart to fish
Brian has shot his first fish with his bow and arrow. -
Brian shoots a ruffed grouse
Brian has developed a techniek to shoot a ruffed grouse. -
The fish pond
Brian makes a small fish enclosure. He lures in fish with some leftovers. When some fish swam in and he closes it. Now he can easily catch fish. -
Tornado attack
A small tornado strikes the forests. It rips appart everything, including Brians shelter. But the tornado lifted the plane out of the water. The tail of the plane is sticking out of the water. Now Brian can go get the survival pack. But how? -
The raft
Brian spent all day building a small raft. He pushed the raft afloat and drifted to the plane. While hacking away at the planes tail he drops his hatchet. Brian dives down to retrieve it. Then after a while he gets out the pack and goes back. It contains foodpacks, a 22.long rifle, some ammo, a knife, a sleeping bag and a radio transmitter. Brian turns it on but does'nt hear anything. While he was cooking a meal a small plane arrived. The plane heard the signal of the transmitter. He was saved.
