Brians Winter Analysis

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The book Brian’s Winter was written by Gary Paulsen; the author of the award winning book Hatchet. The health issue incorporated into the book is survival. The author most emphasizes physical health. He does this by explaining the obstacles and things that have happened to the character. The author’s second most emphasis is the mental health because living in wilderness and getting his own food, the character has to think differently. The main character’s name is Brian Robeson. He gets stranded in the wilderness and has to overcome many obstacles dealing with his health, especially physical health. Since he is stranded with no food he must find his own which is very difficult and he copes with this by working harder than he ever has. His mental and intellectual health is also affected because he now has no contact with anything but the wilderness and needs to change his mindset on how to find food and how to survive. The last main health dimension is social health, which is affected greatly because he is alone and has no contact with any other humans. He does not like the way his health is deteriorating by the lack of food and exposure to the elements. He is frightened and is physically weakened. On page 6, during a dream he mentally moved away from the woods, “he started to think in terms of the city again”. His social health was affected because he now had no one else to communicate with and was starting to get lonely. He also missed his family and friends very much. The cold weather and the lack of food also affected his physical health, he is suffering from starvation and malnutrition and he was then forced to change his mindset so that he could find food and survive. The health issue of survival changed his health in several ways including his ability to talk to people normally and efficiently when he was rescued for example people would be talking to him
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