The protagonist of Hatchet is Brian Robenson. He is a 13 year old from the city. Alone in the wilderness, after surviving a plane crash, Brian encounters challenges as he faces survival. The antagonist in Hatchet is nature. Wild animal attacks and a tornado and survival are the main dangers Brian faces.

The secondary characters in the story are Brian's mother and the pilot. Brian's mother never makes

The falling action occurs after Brian gets all of the survival supplies out of the survival pack. While Brian is fixing himself food that came from the survival pack, he tries to figure out how the emergency transmitter works by flicking the switch. Brian thinks that the transmitter is broken because he does not understand its function. The climax of the story occurs when the plane flies over and lands on the L shaped lake. The denouement is when Brian is flicking the switch back and forth on the emergency transmitter and he inadvertently leaves it on. The pilot who rescues Brian picks up the distress signal from the emergency transmitter. Later, when Brian arrives back at his home, his parents almost get back together. Brian comes close to te

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