Htchet Chapter 7 8 9 10
Htchet Chapter 7 8 9 10
Htchet Chapter 7 8 9 10
Character:
1. Brian Robeson, 13 years old.
2. Brian´s Mother
3. Brian´s Father, mechanical engineer,
4. Jim/Jake, pilot
5. Terry, best friend
6. Mr. Perpich, English teacher
7. Uncle Carter, who used to eat raw eggs in the morning,
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Brian wakes up screaming for his mother. He's in incredible pain: he's
never felt anything this intense. He throws up and has violent diarrhea
that continues for an hour, until he is weak and exhausted. When he
crawls back to the shelter, he again thinks about the time when he saw
his mother at the mall kissing a man he didn't recognize. Brian never told
his father what he saw, and he believes his father "still did not know
about it." Brian eventually falls asleep and wakes after the sun is up,
cleaning the mess from his sickness as best he can. He goes down to the
lake to get a drink and sees his swollen, bloody, and dirty face reflected
in the water. Feeling sorry for himself, he sits down and cries. Then he
drinks more water, has a few berries, and resumes his search for food.
He realizes that he has been in the wilderness for three days and finds
himself calling his shelter "home."
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It is easy to make sparks with the hatchet, but Brian finds he can't get
them to catch fire. He digs through his pockets and finds a $20 bill his
mother had given him for the trip. Though he rips the bill into tiny
pieces, they won't light. He looks around and sees a birch tree with
peeling bark that looks like paper. Brian pulls some bark free, takes it
back to shelter, and again tries to light a fire. The sparks last longer,
but they won't stay lit. Realizing the kindling needs to be thinner and
finer, he takes more than two hours just to slice the bark into fine
strips.
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He tries again, and this time the sparks last longer. The strips of bark
still won't catch fire, though. He thinks back on his science classes in
school, and remembers fire needs oxygen. He makes more sparks,
blowing on them now—and after several tries, makes a fire. But the
fire burns through his kindling very quickly, and Brian realizes he
needs to gather more branches. Once he gets the fire going he thinks of
it happily as his friend and wishes he could show it to someone. Brian
wonders what his parents are doing at that moment, and if his mother
was seeing the strange man he had seen her kiss.
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At first Brian can't stand to leave his fire. He sits beside it most of the
day. Eventually he realizes he needs more wood to keep the fire going.
Banking the fire, he gathers and chops large dry branches. In a happy
discovery he finds the mosquitos that had bitten him so many times are
gone, driven away by the smoke from the fire. He also realizes he can
use the fire to signal search parties. He starts to believe he might be
able to get more control over his life.
That night he hears something moving across the sand and in the
morning sees tracks leading from the lake to a pile of sand and back.
As he ponders the tracks, wondering if they might have been made by
animals at play, he can readily admit his urban life is of limited help in
the middle of the Canadian woods. He calls himself a "city boy" with
"city ways." Finally realizing the tracks probably have a more
practical purpose, he digs in one of the sandpiles and finds 17 round
eggs about the size of ping-pong balls. A turtle has come to shore to lay
eggs. Thinking of his Uncle Carter, who used to eat raw eggs in the
morning, he decides that he needs nourishment badly enough to do so
himself. Overcoming the odd taste, Brian eats several eggs and, saving
the others, decides to eat one a day. While the shells are as hard as
leather, Brian manages to open one up and suck the contents down. He
nearly vomits but continues eating until he has consumed six eggs,
taking the rest to his shelter. Finally Brian realizes he hasn't thought
about the possibility of a rescue party in some time. He must keep it in
mind, he thinks, so that he doesn't lose hope.
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Guía
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1. Who was Brian screaming for when he woke up? Mother.
2. After he was sick - why did he feel empty and drained of all
3. The memory came back again.. What was it? Mother and
Raspberries.
6. What type of animal did Brian run into when he found the
9. "His face was cut and bleeding, swollen and lumpy, the hair
matted, and on his forehead a cut had healed but left the
hair stuck with blood and scab." Where did Brian see this?
10. As the rain came down and Brian was in his shelter. He
stayed dry.
11. As Brian fell asleep thinking about the bear what did he
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smell
17. What did Brian do to get rid of the creature? Threw his
hatchet at it
to build a fire.
fire
22. Brian learned the most important rule of survival after the
porcupine attack... what was it? Feeling sorry for yourself didn't
work.
23. What did Brian figure out from his dream? How to make a fire.
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29. What item helped him for the fire? Birch wood and dry
grass
32. What does tinder mean in this sentence. "Clearly there had
away.
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36. What does Brian find in the sand the morning after he is
39. How does Brian manage to open the turtle eggs? drills a hole then
40. Brian was lucky the sound woke him because the fire was about to
go out.
43. The best thing about having the night visitor was what? now he
had food.
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44. How did Brian know the animal that came up in the sand was a
45. Watching Uncle Carter eat a raw egg with his milk made
46. The turtle eggs looked white and round like ping pong balls