Your purchase helps support NPR programming. He lives.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Songs for the Missing Author Stewart O'Nan With his trusty hatchet, he's able to spark a fire, chop wood, hunt. In realizing he's disappeared, two truths come to Brian's mind: 1, He'll never again be the person he was before the crash, and 2, he does not want to die. He's vanished in the eyes of everyone he's ever known and loved, the father he was going to visit, the mother he left behind. At first he thinks he'll be saved, but days go by, then weeks. The pilot has died, and young Brian must survive alone. Hatchet is the story of Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old boy who, en route to visit his father, crashes in a bush plane in the Canadian wilderness. This existential desperation also explains the enduring fascination for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulson. In fact, much of today's technology is geared to keep us more connected, to be constantly present in the lives of those we love, to make it impossible to simply. We live most of our lives trying desperately to prove and strengthen our existence. Beyond the mystery of wondering "where did the plane go?," I believe the interest in the missing Malaysia Airlines' 777 has something to do with our fear of disappearing, or having someone we love disappear.
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