Hachet and Cast away

   Being stranded in the wilderness can test a person's mind. It can also be life changing. Hatchet a novel written by Gary Paulsen, is about a thirteen- year- old boy named Brian who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness. Cast away is a film about a man named Chuck who is stranded on a tropical island. Both Brian and Chuck use survival techniques to face there challenges.
   Both Brian and Chuck had decided to live after attempting suicide. Brian attempted suicide after a plane that was looking for him did not see the fire he made. As he saw the plane leave, he lost all hope. Paulson writes" Brian took his hatchet there had been nothing for him then and he tried to become nothing but the cutting had been hard to do"(Paulson,116). For Brian, this is the turning point in the story. If Brian had not attempted suicide, he would not have changed and survived. Chuck had attempted suicide after he had been on the island for some time. Chuck hade made a rope to hang himself. To see if the rope could stand his weight, he made a wooden person to hang to test the rope. Chuck felt like all he did, he did wrong, and that he could not even kill himself the wright way (cast away). Chuck had tested what he was going to use to kill himself and it failed, he thought I cant kill myself. So He decided that he would not die. For both Brian and Chuck it took attempting to kill themselves to see that they have a reason to live and survive.
      A difference between Brian and Chuck is that Chuck had a"friend to talk to" and Brian had no one to talk to. At the beginning of the story, he had the pilot. He ended up losing the pilot, because of a hart attack. Paulsen writes"Brian had to think about what happened in the roaring plain with no pilot he was alone"(Paluson,12). To Brian, the pilot was the only other person with him and had just died. Chuck had been on a Fed-ex plain with other pepole: two pilots and a friend. The plain had started jerking around and then the plain dove into the ocean. He ended up on a island. Later on he got a volleyball and named it Wilson. Fore years later Chuck had been stuck on the island. Chuck would have conversations arguments with Wilson like he was a real person(Cast away). He would treat Wilson like that because, to Chuck, he was the only other 'person' on the island. Brian and Chuck are different, because Brian had to survive by himself and Chuck had Wilson to survive with. No mater how many times Brian and Chuck got knocked down, they got back up. Whatever you want will not be given to you . You have to try and survive for yourself.