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Brian's Winter (1998)

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0440227194 (ISBN13: 9780440227199)
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Brian's Winter (1998) - Plot & Excerpts

If you enjoy survival novels then this is the book for you. Brian shows how surviving in the wild has many cons but also pros that can help better a person I believe. Brian is a boy that was in a plane crash that landed in the rugged terrain and climate of Canada. He only had tools from the planes survival kit and the ones that he made from the plane wreck. He had to take his skills and perfect them while learning as he goes along. He is learning that nature is calm and relentless. The world owes him nothing and nature is unchanged from him being in the wild. Brian had to perfect his hunting skills especially when hunting rabbits. He had found a technique that worked very well time and time again. Instead of going straight at the rabbit he was walk diagonally towards it trying to make it seem like he has no idea that rabbit was there. These are the kind of skills that he needs to accomplish to live in the hostile environment.The characters in the book are surprising small. The main character was Brian, a boy who crashed in the wilderness, and a Native American Tribe. Brian was mainly alone in the book and did not have any communication with a human being for 50 days. As winter was setting in he stumbled across a Native American tribe that was only roughly 100 meters from where he had been surviving for weeks. The Native Americans were having supplies dropped into them from a plane that came every month. How he never heard this plane still baffles me.Brian had to survive the wilderness just before fall hit Canada. There was not much time to prepare for the winter months him realized. One day during fall he was at camp and a bear came to investigate the smell of food. When Brain finally realized that he didn’t have good enough weapons and protection he got to work. After making new tools he was able to bring down a moose with a bow to weaken it and used a handmade lance to finish it off. At the end of the story he didn’t even want to leave the new tribe of people he found on the island across the frozen lake. Eventually the plane came and Brian was rescued after fighting all the odds to survive. The overall theme of Brian’s winter is courage and survival. He had many obstacles in the woods when he is surviving and had to overcome his fears and conquer them which take great courage. He displayed courage when he was in a tight situation and had to act fast to keep from being stampeded over.If I had to recommend this book to someone it would be to a high school student who has an interest in the wild and likes reading survival stories. This book was kind of predictable with no real actions in the climax of the story except killing animals to survive. Another thing that I didn’t enjoy much from the book was the ending. He just suddenly found a way out of the wilderness without doing much of anything besides staying in one place when he could have been searching for help.

IF you are into survival novels then this is a book for you! Brian describes to you about the pros and cons of this senerio. Brian Robeson is young teenager surviving mother natures harshs conditions including winter blizzards and bitter coldness. IF you are a person who is sometimes gone from home doing whatever, say you become in a senerio where you might need some survival techniques, this book will tell you how to survive. Brians Winter is a lead off of the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. A little recap on Hatchet. In the beggining, Brian was in a very small plane over the elusive Canadian hardwoods in the middle of summer. His pilot ended up having a heart attack and died. The plane crashed into the tree's and Brian ended up being trapped with no radio contact to the outside world. He made a small shelter on the outside of a small lake. Brian is all alone and is waiting for help to arive, he has been living at the crash sight for two months sence the plane crashed. He goes through withdrawls of what his life ust to be and he misses his mom and dad so very much. He can tell that fall is coming soon because the air is stiffer and the lake freezes over at night. The only fire starting tool he has is his hatchet. He ofcourse kills things to eat. He has decided to kill something bigger than rabbits for the fur to make a coat. He makes snowshoes and pants. The pants and coat are made from deer skin. He had a 22 cal long rifle but he is out of ammunition so he made a bow out of vine and basswood. He boils water from the lake in an old coffee can that he found burried in the muck. Every two weeks he hears wolves and he soon descided that he wanted to see them. He goes out and is doing his business when he looks up, he sees a wolf standing 20 yards infront of him with a piece of a white-tail deer in his mouth. The wolf marks his territory and carrys on. Brian learned in science that animals mark there territory to keep there ground from being over run by intruders. He descides to go pee on the same stump the wolf did. Two weeks later the wolf comes back, smells the intruder, and marks his territory again. Brian quickly runs over there as soon as it was safe and does it again. Brian and the wolf come friends. Brian has nobody to socialize with so he feels that the animals keep him from going crazy.

What do You think about Brian's Winter (1998)?

I fell in love with the Canadian wilderness and Brian Robeson all over again in Brian’s Winter. This is like Hatchet, but with more evocative and breathtaking scenes of nature that left me awed and humbled. As an alternate sequel to the first book in the series, Brian’s Winter tackles the question of how Brian would survive through the winter if he hadn’t been rescued. Because Brian is more prepared than he was when he first crash-landed, this story has more fun elements amidst the danger; for example, Brian gets an unconventional pet, and moose encounter part two happens with better results. But the winter is a whole different animal, and it’s awesome to see how Brian uses the skills he learned in the fall and how he gains insight into the new problems that arise as the weather gets colder. And the imagery is more intense in Brian’s Winter – I was drooling throughout all the food scenes, and I froze along with Brian as he went outside into the snow to hunt. Overall, Brian’s Winter is a realistic and incredible journey that is another level up from Hatchet. Paper Breathers (Book Reviews & Discussions)
—Sophie

The alternate ending to Hatchet, but there’s not much different about this book than the original. Brian is still in the wild when the seasons change, but hunting and living in the winter doesn’t seem to cause him much problem. Even a bear attack barely harms him. The book is very long for the little amount of story it delivers, and the deus ex machina ending was a letdown. I knew it wasn’t possible for Brian to die in the wild, since there are more books coming after this one, but it REALLY would have made the book a lot better. I don’t recommend this at all.
—Allison

At the end of Hatchet, Im thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, who has been trapped in the Canadian wilderness after a plane accident, decides to dive for supplies from the submerged aircraft. I almost drown. I recover, among other things, an emergency transmitter. Within hours, a pilot receives the beacon and rescues me. The book ends with a note that I, learn wilderness survival through trial and error, probably would not have survived the upcoming harsh winter. I read Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen, which is part of a series. I have read several of his books because they're short reads and are easy to follow. In my opinion, the book has many genres such as realistic fiction, also adventure Gary Paulsen says that many readers wrote to him, complaining about the deus ex machina ending. This means that the readers wanted the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though perhaps more palatable ending. In response, Paulsen wrote Brian's Winter, which explores what would have happened if Brian had not activated the transmitter. The story deals with Brian, still stranded at the L-shaped lake during the fall and winter, constructing a winter shelter, building snow shoes, being attacked by bear, and learning to make a more powerful bow. Eventually, Brian meets a family of Cree trappers, the Smallhorns, who help him return home. Brian also learned that he should "always pay attention to what's happening around him."
—Nathan W.

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