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Chapter 1 Summary: “Heart Attacks, Plane Crashes and Flying” Hatchet opens with a heart attack. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is flying over remote Canadian wilderness on a Cessna 406 bush plane when the pilot has a heart attack and dies.
The award-winning novel follows Brian Robeson as he survives alone in the remote Canadian wilderness after a fatal plane crash. Guts is a collection of wilderness tales, musings on nature, personal survival accounts, and telling anecdotes, with each chapter demonstrating how Paulsen’s lived experiences found their way into the fictional ...
In Chapter 1: "Heart Attacks, Plane Crashes, and Flying," Paulsen references his book Hatchet in which main character Brian Robeson must bring a plane in for a crash landing in a lake, as the pilot has suffered a heart attack.
When the plane in which Brian is traveling crashes after the pilot suffers a fatal heart attack, Paulsen draws on several experiences of his own. Paulsen, while working as an ambulance volunteer, responded to many heart attack cases.
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books is a non-fiction book by Gary Paulsen, published on January 23, 2001 by Delacorte Books. It is about some of Paulsen's life adventures, including dog sledding in blizzards, being in a plane stalling in the air in the Arctic, watching as a little boy gets stabbed to death by a young buck, ...
23 paź 2020 · In Guts, Paulsen explains how Brian has no choice but to swim free after he tries to land the plane when the pilot dies of a heart attack. This is inspired by his own life experiences; Paulsen worked as an emergency volunteer and has seen how devastating heart attacks are to everyone else on board.
18 gru 2007 · In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that...