Question

Read the following excerpt from the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

If the plane had come down a little to the left it would have hit the rocks and never made the lake Destroyed.
The word came. I would have been destroyed and torn and smashed. Driven into the rocks and destroyed.
Luck, he thought. I have luck, I had good luck there. But he knew that was wrong. If he had had good luck his parents
wouldn't have divorced because of the Secret and he wouldn't have been flying with a pilot who had a heart attack and he
wouldn't be here where he had to have good luck to keep from getting destroyed.
If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you'll come to bad luck.


Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Do Brian's thoughts help or hinder his chances for survival? Write a paragraph to explain your thinking. Use evidence from the text to support your response.

Answer 1

I’ve read this book before and I say that in the beginning the hinder. He keeps asking “what if” questions to himself and that is stoping him from doing the important things he needs to do.