THE RIVER

Connection to Hatchet

• Life or death situation
• Person against self conflict
• person against the wilderness
• Person against nature
• Trying to survive

SETTING

• Canadian wilderness
• Near a Canadian lake
• The impact this has on the story is the way the charecter
• Brian has to survive in these conditions of the wilderness.

CHARACTER BRIAN PROTAGONIST

• Brian, famous boy for surviving in the wilderness for 2 months the year
• before,resourceful for making the things he needed to survive out of things
• people would think were useless.Caring for making a raft for Dereck to pull him
• to safety.

CHARACTER DERECK

• Smart because he carries a lot of papers and is a psychiatrist.
• Weak because he went crazy pulling his shirt up and down to
• get rid of the mosquitoes,that means he can't take it.
• Stupid because he picked up the transmitter and got struck
• by lightning during a storm.

CHARACTER NATURE ANTAGONIST

• Dangerous because of the animals and poiseness
• plants that are there and can harm us and possibly kill us.
• Inconvenient for not providing food and water directly.
• Very uncomfortable from the bugs,flying insects,and harsh weather conditions.
• Unpredictable from the loose branches and the under-minded animals.

CONFLICT

• Person against self-Brian solving how long and how
• how far he has to go on the river.
• Person against nature-Brian struggling and fighting the river
• to get Dereck to safety.
• Brian trying to figure out how to get a psychiatrist in a coma across a river.

EXPOSITION

• The exposition is when 3 men come up to him and ask him to do it again,go to
• the wilderness and survive with nothing but a hatchet.He goes to the Can-
• adian wilderness and goes with this psychiatrist named Dereck,and tells h-
• im not to bring the supplies off the plane,but he agrees to bring the tr-
• ansmitter.During the night there was a storm.Dereck got struck by lightning.

RISING ACTION

• Since Dereck got hit by lightning he got in a coma.Brian tries to build a raft
• to get to the trading post on the other side of the river.He figures out that it's
• going to take 50 hours to paddle there.So he figures out a plan to take Dereck's
• t-shirt wet it and keep his skin moist.He also figured out to take a 10 min. break
• every hour.

CLIMAX

• The climax is when Brian is trying to cool Dereck down he hears a rushing sound,
• and he turns around,and figures out that it's a waterfall.While he loses balance standing
• up he falls off the raft letting it flow down the waterfall.When he finally realizes that Dereck
• was not there he immediately swims as fast as he can and catches up with the raft with Dereck still there.

FALLING ACTION

• Brian never let the current leave his sight never let anything come
• between the goal to get Dereck to safety.He doesn't think about anything but
• just rowing and paddling.He never thinks about food or water and never stops
• until he is there.

RESOLUTION

• The resolution is when Brian never stopped paddling until he sees a boy come
• out and stop at the dock bringing a man and a women with him.Collapsing over
• exhaustion. Letting them carry him.