In the book hatchet written by Gary Paulson an important character is Brian Robeson. Brian is a 14 year old boy who is lonely, depressed and angry because his parents are divorced. He is a city boy used to being looked after and pampered in everything he does. He cannot cope in the wild but learns to survive. When Brian crash lands in the canadian rain forest he is unable to cope and he feels resentful and scared.
Brian Robeson is a thirteen year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies; Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. With nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present, Brian finds himself completely alone. Challenged by his fear and despair -- and plagued with the weight of a dreadful secret he's been keeping since his parent's divorce -- Brian must tame his inner demons in order to survive. It will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he ever possessed.
“The Law of Life” is a story about a man, Koskoosh, who is left behind by his tribe to die. Koskoosh is a very old man who has lost most of his vision and depends on his hearing. His son, the current chief of the tribe, leaves him some sticks to feed the fire. When the fire dies, so will he. As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow.
"When the undertakers came to wheel my father's lifeless body out to the hearse, it was like they were taking my childhood with them." (PG 28). In this case Charlie is mourning over his father’s death. With no real father figure in Charlie’s life, it causes him a huge amount of grief especially when he is hurt, when he is looking for inspiration and especially when there is no income coming in. With none of these things he becomes a very unhappy and with no income, he becomes a very poor boy.
In the story “Hunters in the Snow,” three men, Tub, Kenny, and Frank, are going on a hunting trip. Tub is waiting for Frank and Kenny to pick him up. He had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow Tobias Wolf sets up a good example of setting by telling the reader about how cold it is out on the street. Whenever Kenny and Frank finally show up, they almost run Tub down with their truck. The driver, who turns out to be Kenny, thinks it is really funny while Tub does not quite agree.
“Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat. (105) Also, after Walter was finally given another chance to prove himself a man, he disobeyed his mother. Lena told him that he could have a share of the money, if he put a small some into a safe bank account for his sister Beneatha. (106) Instead of doing so, Walter poured every single cent of the money into the hands of another man. Karma came back to bite him for his Selfish actions.
He is always looking back to the World War II, where he was before with his uncle Rocky. He is a very bad shape mentally after the war and he is trying to find a way to heal himself. But the memories overtake him and cause him distress. He lives on a farm alone and only few of his animals are alive because a terrible drought has come over the land. What is important?
He was beaten by an SS officer. He was very sick, and couldn’t work anymore. In the beginning, Elie was very worried about his father, but a few days later Elie and his father’s relationships became worse. The burden from his father has been too much work, so it was a board to happen. After Blockalteste told Elie that he is in a concentration camp, he shouldn’t care about anyone else except himself even his old father.
They do not ever want to show fear. Even after the war, the men still carry the grief of the war. Tim O’Brien carries the image of the young man that he killed, and it haunts him every day. Jimmy Cross tells Tim that he still has no forgiven himself about Ted Lavenders death. “At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.
Short story TDEC for “Powder” In the short story “Powder” by Tobias Wolff the narrator’s mood with his father is tense because he thinks his dad is naïve and doesn’t think ahead before actingdoing; however, by the end of the story the narrator learns to appreciate his father cause of his honestyim. The nNarrator is taken to a skiing trip with his father during the Christmaswinter break, his parents are divorced and his father had to “fight for the privilege of [his sons] company” ever since he “[snuck] [his son] into the night club.” The father thought that his ex-wife would probably not find out but she did, because he did not think a head of the consequences of maybe not being to see his son cause of his bad actions he almost couldn’t