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The River

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE RIVER

By: Gary Paulsen Slide By:Autumn Tidwell

Connection to Hatchet

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

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.
Photo by ecstaticist

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.
Photo by kevin dooley

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.
Photo by Foto Pau

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.
Photo by Mezza

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.
Photo by xavi talleda

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.
Photo by WilliamMarlow

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.
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