Hatchet — Vocabulary
Gary Paulsen
(Edited)

There was no pain there so he assumed that had taken care of itself.p.99.5alternate pages1 more

When the pilot pushed the rudder pedal the plane had jerked to the side and assumed a new course.p.49.3alternate pages1 more

I have to get motivated, he thought, remembering Perpich.p.51.9alternate pages3 more

Then he turned and stood still, with the sun at his back, and studied the water again. It was, he saw after a moment, literally packed with life. Small fish swam everywhere...p.102.8alternate pages1 more

It did not dive, but the nose went down slightly and the down-angle increased the speed, and he knew that at this angle, this slight angle down, he would ultimately fly into the trees.p.14.9alternate pages

The flames cut the cool damp morning, crackled and did much to bring his spirits up, not to mention chasing away the incessant mosquitoes.p.150.8alternate pages

...he had fallen asleep sitting against his shelter wall, oblivious even to the mosquitoes,p.171.5alternate pages

And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane down to reduce the impact.p.24.3alternate pages

He shook his head, tried to focus his thoughts.p.85.8alternate pages3 more

One of the pilots had used a watch crystal as a magnifying glass to focus the sun and start a fire so they didn't have to eat the lizards raw.p.56.6alternate pages3 more

And the next thought was there as well, that they might never find him, but that was panic and he fought it down and tried to stay positive.p.50.3alternate pages4 more

The plane lurched again, hit more turbulence, and Brian felt the nose drop.p.14.8alternate pages1 more

He held the fish against the sky ... and felt his throat tighten, swell, and fill with pride at what he had done. He had done food. The bow had given him this way and he exulted in it, in the bow, in the arrow, in the fish, in the hatchet, in the sky.p.119.7alternate pages

In the city if he made a mistake usually there was a way to rectify it, make it all right.p.121.3alternate pages

Those were all the things he had, but he also had himself. Perpich used to drum that into them, "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have."p.47.5alternate pages

The pilot who landed so suddenly in the lake was a fur buyer mapping Cree trapping camps for future buying runs, drawn by Brian when he unwittingly turned on the emergency transmitter and left it going.p.178.2alternate pages

...the skunk had snapped its rear end up, curved the tail over, and sprayed Brian with a direct shot.... The corrosive spray that hit his face seared into his lungs and eyes, blinding him.p.123.2alternate pages

On the dashboard in front of him Brian saw dials, switches, meters, knobs, levers, cranks, lights, handles that were wiggling and flickering, all indicating nothing that he understood and the pilot seemed the same way.p.3.8alternate pages2 more

He was sitting in a bushplane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness with a pilot who had suffered a massive heart attack and who was either dead or in something close to a coma. He was alone.p.12.4alternate pages4 more

There was garlic in it and some other spices and the smells came up to him and made him think of home, his mother cooking, the rich smells of the kitchen, and at that precise instant, with his mind full of home and the smell from the food filling him, the plane appeared.p.176.6alternate pages1 more