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.