Hatchet 1

In the beginning of the story a 13-year-old boy named Brian is on a small bush plane. He is on his way to Canada to stay with his father for the summer. His parents were recently divorced and he is depressed about it. While he is on the plane he flashes back to before he got to the airport in the car with his mother. Him and his mother are driving and all he can think about is "the secret." He keeps remembering what he saw one day when he was riding his bike with one of his friends. He was riding by a car and he saw his mother. He was going to wave but he saw a man in the car with her. This stopped him from waving. Then it happened. She kissed him, and she didn't kiss him the way you would kiss your grandmother. After the divorce Brian knew why it had happened and his father didn't. Brian's mother gave him a hatchet for when he went to Canada so he could use it in the outdoors. Now Brian came back and he was back on the plane again sitting next to the pilot in the cockpit. The pilot started to strike up a conversation about flying. He asked Brian if he'd ever flown before, but Brian hadn't been on a plane before. So the pilot told Brian what to do and he did it. He knew basically how to fly the plane. After a little bit the pilot started having aches in his arm and his chest. He was having a heart attack. Brian didn't realize what was happening until after the pilot died.

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano was just a young boy when he was enslaved. In his narrative he describes the conditions forced upon him and his people. He describes the hold where the slaves were as unbearably hot. It was so hot people could suffocate. Also the hold was not clean at all. All those people in one compact place at once was not the healthiest. Disease spread around quickly. He explains how the children fell into the tubs that people were going to the bathroom in. There was no where for the slaves to bathe either. Another thing was that there wasn't enough fresh air getting to the hold so people were getting very sick. The only time a slave went up on deck was when they were near death and absolutely needed fresh air. Equiano explains how the men that enslaved him and his people beat his people to near death if they acted up in any sort. Despite all of the bad things that have happened to him and his people, Equiano recognizes some good things. He recognizes the fish and that a crew member taught him what a quadrant was and how it was used on a ship to navigate.

A Journey Through Texas

The Native Americans thought the Spaniards were some life form on like an angels level of super naturalness. The Natives asked the Spanish to ask the Heavens for rain. This explains the reason why the Natives were so scared of the Spaniards. They thought the Spaniards could punish them. The Spaniards only wanted to get to the colony of New Mexico to find maize. There only a few reasons the Spaniards asked the natives to help them. One reason being that the Spaniard didn't know the land at all and needed assistance navigating to get to the colony. Another reason is that the Spaniards didn't know what was safe to eat on their journey. The natives knew what was safe and what was unsafe to eat. Also the natives knew how to cook the foods. The natives also told the Spaniards what tribes were safe and what tribes were dangerous.