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The Secret
His mom kissed a blonde haired man. -
The Crash
The piolt had a heart attack and died. Brian flew the plane until it ran out of gas. Brian sterrted the plane toward a lake as the plane was going down. -
Hatchet
On the way to the airport Brian's mom wanted to know what was on his mind. Brian did not want to tell his mom that he knew what caused the divorce. Brian's mom gave him a hatchet before he got on the plane. -
Food
Brian found berries to eat. -
The Bear
Brian was looking for a different kind of berries. He found rasberries. While Brian was picking the rasberries he saw a bear. Brian began to run away when he saw the bear but quickly realized the bear was not interested in him. The bear went into the woods and Brian continued to pick the rasberries but kept watch for the bear. -
The Porcupine
The porcupine went into Brian's camp and ate his berries. Brian thew his hatchet at the porcupine when the porcupine came into his camp. Then the porcupine threw his needles into Brian's leg. When the hatchet hit the rocks Brian saw a shower of sparks. -
The Fire
When Brian threw the hatchet at the porcupine he rembered seeing sparks when the hatched hit the sparks. Brian knew that the hatchet was the answer to starting the fire. Brian used the hatchet to make sparks then used bark from the tree to light from the sparks. Then Brian remembered that he needed oxygen also so he blew on the sparks. Finally after several attempts Brian had fire! -
Turtle Eggs
Brian saw tracks in the sand. He followed the tracks and found turtle eggs. -
City boy
Brian saw the tracks in the sand and could not figure out what made the tracks or the pile of sand. He thought to himself "What a city boy to think that something was playing in the sand." He thought in his mind that he was a city boy with his city boy ways. Brian knew he had to stop thinking that way if he wanted to figure out what made the tracks in the sand and if he wanted to survive. -
Smoke
Brian gathered wood and limbs to a ledge to make a bonfire to signal rescue planes. -
Missed Rescue Plane
Brian was looking for fish when something fell by his feet. Then while he was trying to figure out what type of bird it was he heard a noise! It was a plane! Brian ran to the bonfire to add more wood to make more smoke but the plane turned and went away. -
The Wolf
Brian saw a wolf and was at first afraid. The wolf had yellow eyes and was large. The wolf stared at Brian. Brian then knew that the wolf was part of the woods- part of him. After that, Brian was no longer afraid of the wolf. -
The Cutting
Brian felt down after the rescue plane had come and gone. He wanted to die. Brian had gone into a funk and went to the ridge where he took the hatchet and tried to end his life by cutting himself. Unsucessful, he fell asleep and when he woke up he saw the cuts on his arm and the dried blood. Brian was mad at himself. He realized he was new and he needed to be the new Brian. -
The New Brian
Brian realized after he cut himself he was a new Brian! He realized he made a lot of mistakes and needed to try not to do that. Brian made a new fire, He made new arrows to fish with and to try to catch a foolbird with. -
Mistakes
Food was everything. Brian needed to find a way to protect his food. A skunk got into his camp to find the food it smelled and then sprayed Brian with its scent. The skunk got to Brian's food. This mistake had to be fixed. Brian had to find a way to protect his food in order to survive. -
The foolbird
Brian catches his first foolbird with a bow and some arrows. Brian did not know how to cook the foolbird at first. It was different than the fish. -
The first feast day
Brian has his first feast day by having fish, rabbit and foolbird. -
The moose
When Brian was washing his foolbird that he caught he was attacked by a moose. -
The missing plane
After Brian was attacked by the moose a tornado came. The morning after the tornado tore up Brian's home and everything around it. When Brian looked out into the lake he saw the plane that Brian was in when it crashed. -
The Rescue
Brian activates the emergency transmitter and a pilot flying over head hears it and lands on the lake in front of Brian's camp. The pilot realizes that Brian is the boy that has been missing for more than 2 months. -
The rescue
Brian activates the emergency transmitter and was saved by a plane