Theme

In the book "hatchet" the overall theme is to always hold on to the hope of being survived and using that hope to help you push on and keep fighting to stay alive, to succeed in being rescued. Brian the young teenager had been in a plane crash in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, and he was the only one to survive. the pilot   had a heart attack. Brian had to fight for his survival, and the main thing keeping him alive is the hope for someone to rescue him. he had fought through sickness and danger of animals, and weather. In his struggles he realized how much he regretted hating his mom for getting a divorce and he just realized to accept it and just be glad he has a mom and dad. Brian had been stranded for so long he had started to fit in with the environment and animals they started to recognize him not as an outsider, but as a filmier face. when he gets rescued he is exasperated with joy and happiness. and that hope that he had all along had payed off in the end.