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yosoyrana
yosoyrana
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High School - 9th Grade

What type of plane was Brian flying on in "Hatchet"?

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Posted by yosoyrana on Monday July 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM and tagged with brian, hatchet, plane.

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  1. akannan Teacher
    Middle School

    eNotes Editor

    The answer to this question is in the first twenty or thirty pages.  Pay special attention to how the pilot describes the cockpit.  Paulsen pays special detail to the composition of the cockpit, the instruments in it, and how Brian interprets it.  We know the plane was a small one, single engine.  It was only the pilot and Brian in the small plane.  Within the first couple of pages, Paulsen identifies the make of the plane, I think a Cessna model.   It is important to pay attention to it because it comes back at the end of the book, leading to Brian's rescue, so note it and note it well.  As you are trying to find the make of the plane, pay real close attention to Brian's mom before she sends him off and what she gives him.  It's strange but the strength of the novel is the start of the novel because it is the benchmark from where Brian begins his evolution, his growth, his maturation.

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    Posted by akannan on Monday July 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM