Hatchet Timeline-Graciano

The Secret

May 31, 1982

Before Brain goes on the trip to his dads house, he catches his mom kissing this man that he did not know. He never thought his mom would ever be capeable of doing this.

The Crash

Jun 1, 1982

Brian was in a plane, flying to go visit his father, when the pilot all of a sudden gets a heart attack. Brian then has to take over the plane and continues to fly the plane until it runs out of gas. He then he goes to a lake that he can find and trys to land it on the water. He lands on the water and makes it to the shore not hurt.

Builds shelter

Jun 2, 1982

Brian decides to build a shelter and finds a place for one day while searching for food. He comes to a cave structure burrowed into the side of a cliff.

Gut Cherries

Jun 3, 1982

Brian goes to try to find food because he is starving. He sees some birds sitting on bushes so he goes over to investiagte. Brian then sees some berries that the birds were eating and tries them. He has now found his first source of food that he needs to survive.

The Bear

Jun 4, 1982

Brian after looking around the sourounding area by his "house", he finds some rasberries. He is really happy that he found them because the last berries that he found tasted really bad to his liking and he was sick of them. He continues to eat them, when all of a sudden he hears a noise off to his right. He turns to look and there about ten feet from him is a giant brown bear. He is terrifed so he stays completely still. The bear luckily doesnt do anything and leaves.

The Porcupine

Jun 5, 1982

Brian was sleeping in his makeshift home and wakes up to a noise and movement down by his feet. Thats when he feels a sharp pain in his leg and looks down and sees a porcupine. He then has to pull them out.

The Fire

Jun 6, 1982

Brian finds out that by striking his hatchet against the rock in his cave it makes sparks. He then gets the idea that this could be used to make a fire, which he really needs. He then goes out in search of fuel to make it with and after a lot of trial and mistakes he finds the perfect fuel source, birtch peelings. He is then able to make a fire which makes his odds of survival to go up.

Signal fire

Jun 7, 1982

Brian decides to cut enough fire wood and place it on top of a rocky overhang above. He does this so that if a plane trys to get near he can quickly run up to the stack of fire wood and light it on fire to signal a passing aircraft.

First fish

Jun 8, 1982

Brian makes a spear by using his hatchet to carve it out of a branch. He goes out to the lake to try and spear a fish. He does this for hours but to no succes. He then decides that if he only had a bow, it would be much easier. He then carves one out of wood and uses his shoe laces as the string. He uses the both the bow and the spear to kill his first fish. He now has a 2nd source of foods.

The Missed Plane

Jun 9, 1982

Brian one day while picking berries hears a search getting close. He quickly drops what he's doing and runs towards the signal fire that he had made. Once he got there, he sets it ablaze but he is too late. The plane had already passed overhead and Brian had missed his chance of being resucued.

Remodel

Jun 10, 1982

Brian one day after a skunk had gotten into his shelter and ended up spraying him, decides to make his home better looking for the wilderness. He does this by replacing the branches with bigger ones that he sticks into the sand. Then weaves branches in and out of these ones to create a more solid wall. He also creates a food shelf where he can place saved food, knowing that animals wont get close to it.

The Foolbirds

Jun 10, 1982

Brain shot a foolbird, and tried to kill it.

The Moose

Jun 11, 1982

Brian while hunting for birds to shoot, gets attacked by a cow moose. The moose him him a lot in the stomach and Brian has to act dead for it to finally leave him alone. He now has to wait for the moose to leave so that he can get back to his bow, arrows, and spear which were knocked from his hands during the attack.

Its a twister

Jun 12, 1982

One night, Brain is awaken by a terrible loud noise that he says sounds, like a train. He then looks outside and sees a tornado coming down on him and his home. Brian is completely helpless and the tornado tears his home apart and ends up throwing his supplies into the lake where they are lost forever. Brian now has to start over from scratch but he is determined to do so.

Survival pack

Jun 13, 1982

After seeing this, Brian, decides to build a raft and swim out to the lake and dive for the survival pack. Once he gets to the plance he chops a hole in the casing and dives inside. He then searches and finds the pack and swims back to shore to find out what the pack has.

The cutting

Jun 13, 1982

Brain was so tierd of being there alone in the woods. He just wanted to cut himself and die.

The First Feast Day

Jun 14, 1982

When Brain finds lots of food in the survival pack, he starts to eat it and decides to have a feast.

The Wolf

Aug 2, 1982

While Brain was getting food, he saw a wolf but the didnt really do anything, they were just starring at each other.

The Rescue

Aug 14, 1982

Brian finds an emergency transmitter in the survival pack and from it a plane locates Brian. He had been there a total of 54 days. Brian then goes home to a better and changed man thanks to his days in the wild. And he decides to keep the secrect to himself and not tell his dad about it.