Hatchet

Hatchet is the story of one boy's survival between nature and himself. Brian Robeson is 13 years old and trying to cope with his parents' recent divorce. Brian thinks he knows the reason behind his parents divorce, but holds it inside like his own internal punishment. He has seen what he wasn't supposed to see -- his mother and a strange man kissing. Shortly thereafter, his mother demanded a divorce from his father. When the story starts, Brian is on his way to visit his father in northern Canada Just prior to boarding a single-engine plane, Brian receives a present from his mother - a hatchet with a leather holder. He takes it from her after she insists that he wear it on his belt . He would never guess how important that hatchet would become to his survival. Then as Brian faces many challenges and hardships during his time in the wild, he realizes that he still has a chance to be saved. By going into the crashed plane and getting the survival pack from the cockpit, Brian then is able to get a transmitter to send out a signal so htat people can come and rescue him. In the end, Brian was saved and the knowledge he took back from this adventure will be with him forever.