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Book Reviews of Brian's Winter
Book Review: Brian's Survival
Summary: 4 Stars
A young teenager named Brian Robenson was stranded in Canada's wilderness from a plane crash that he survived. Brian only had a few pieces of equipment to use to survive. Brian had many downfalls in his adventure but somehow he survived living on moose, deer, rabbits, and any other prey he can hunt down. During Brian's Winter Brian learned about many skills he didn't know he had. You'd be surprised by how Brian survived on his small equipment. Through these 94 days in the wilderness. Brian has learned a new way of life that is hard to survive in and to not give up still thinking there is something out there to live for (his father or his mother).Brian's Winter is a very interesting book I recommend to everyone that likes survival books and all that good stuff. Survival books are very interesting like this one but this book is part of a survival series. Other books that Gary Paulson has written that go along with this book are Hatchet, The River. If you like reading books that where the characters in the story don't quit and just keep trying hard then you will definitely like this book, I guarantee it. Before my teacher introduced me to this book I never heard of it before. When I read the first few chapters I got addicted to the story that is why I believe that anyone would like it.
Book Review: Brian's Winter
Summary: 5 Stars
Brian's Winter
By: Gary Paulsen
Review by: Monika Juknaite
Kids get lost all the time, supermarkets, movie theaters, big crowds, but have you ever heard of anyone getting lost in the woods? Not just any woods, but the Canadian wilderness, where the weather is crucial, and the chances of surviving during the winter are very slim. Gary Paulsen, the author of Brian's Winter and many other award-winning novels, wrote a book about a young boy getting lost in the wilderness and how he tries to survive.
The whole book is told by Brian Robeson a young teenage boy whose parents live on two different sides of the country. Brian's plane crashed and he's been stuck in the wilderness for a while. Instead of Gary Paulsen rescuing Brian, he wrote a sequel about what would happen to Brian if he would have never gotten rescued. The main point that the book talks about is surviving. Gary Paulsen does a great job of describing Brian's stay in the wilderness.
Brian did not have any brother's or sisters, he was an only child. And his parents were divorced. He lived with his mother, and had to take a plane to see his father. When one time, as he was flying to see his father. The pilot of his plane had a heart attack and crashed the plane. That is when Brian was lucky enough to survive.
Brian try's to survive in the wilderness by quickly adapting to the environment and trying to learn from his surroundings. The weather during the winter was extremely cold, thirty, forty, even fifty below zero. "It felt as if the moisture on his eyes would freeze-he had to blink to keep them from freezing" (Paulsen 98).
The young boy needs to hunt food to survive. And during the winter the selection of the food that you can get is very limited. The lake is frozen, so you can not fish, and there are no trees that have fruit growing on them. Brian carves arrow heads and makes weapons, so he can hunt animals, and later on starts to hunt bigger animals like deer and doe.
Not only Brian needs to hunt for food, he also has to protect himself and his food. There are many animals that may hurt Brian in the wilderness. "Half a beat and Brian lay still, staring up at the bear" (Paulsen 60). He has to be very careful about what he does. The author describes very well in the novel, about how Brian survives, and what he does to keep warm, keep away from hunger and not be lonely.
I believe that Brian's Winter is a great novel for young adults. Probably the most interesting thing that the author does in this book is how he talks about everything. He describes very well how Brian lives in his cave, and how he hunts and how the animals die in front of him some slowly some quickly. If the author would have not described the book so well, I don't think I would have liked it as much. I feel that the book may inspire some young writers, and gets a great message across to its readers.
Gary Paulsen, even though in his older years of life still has the niche of writing. He loves to write stories and if not for the fans, Brian's Winter would have never been published. Gary Paulsen has written many books, like Dog Song, The River, The Voyage of the Frog, and of course The Hatchet which is the first part of Brian's Winter, so I suggest if you want to read Brian's Winter you should read Hatchet first.
Book Review: Brian's Winter
Summary: 1 Stars
Few have experienced true struggle through the snow, through hunger, and through survival. In Brian's Winter, true struggle is revealed. Brian is a thirteen year-old kid, when his plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness he has to survive in the woods by himself. Brian must rely on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy, winter. Brian learns to survive in the wilderness. He survives by learning from his surroundings. He uses tools from the plane to build a tent to protect himself, and to make a fire to keep warm. After a spring in his gun broke, he makes weapons out of what he can find. He hunts birds and rabbits, until winter comes and he has to hunt bigger animals to stalk up on food for the winter. He is very resourceful for using branches to make spears, bow, arrows, and snowshoes.
This book was a best seller but I didn't like it. The plot in this book was to simple. After a while nothing new happened. It is was just a survival story on how Brian has to learned how to survive in the wilderness. I think it would have been better if more thinks happened. It also would have been better if it had more characters. In the wilderness all Brian did was learn how to hunt. If you like books about survival, you would like this book.
Book Review: Brian's Winter
Summary: 2 Stars
Brian's Winter
By Gary Paulsen
Review by Amy Paolini
While I was reading the novel, Brian's Winter, the author Gary Paulsen made me fell like I was really there. The book is about a boy named Brian who was on a trip to see his father in Canada. On the way there, The jet he was taking all of a sudden crashed. With only him and the pilot on board, Brian was the only survivor. With only the tools left on the jet, and a hatchet that is what Brian had to survive on for mny months, and a hard long winter.
I really liked this book. It took me to a new place, and I felt like me and Brian were like family members, and he was telling me his stories. Also it made a good picture in my mind. I felt like when he was describing on how the moose toppled over him, I had an awesome picture of that for the whole time.
The theme of this book is to never give up and always keep going no matter what happens. Brian was one of those people that were living on his own and he had to get through the winter or until someone found him. He was missing for a long time and not only did the plane crash but he hasn't talked to his parents since the summer.
Brian has had an adventure of his life. Though the whole book, it always seemed like Brian needed to improve on everything. When he decided to start hunting bigger and better things, as said in the book "He decided he needed a stronger weapon, a large bow." Said by Brian.
I liked this book because it was like I was really there and I like books that take you on adventures and like make you want to keep reading because you want to find out what is going to happen next. I can picture the authors voice being deep and very serious because he is trying to survive.
Brian's Winter is full of funny events that Brian has to go through. One of my favorites was when he watched a wolf make his mark on a tree and he did the same thing. When he did the wolf didn't look every happy, so Brian just walked away hoping not to get hurt.
If you want to find out what happens to Brian if he survives or not you will have to go and read this book.
Book Review: Brian's Winter
Summary: 3 Stars
In Gary Paulsen's Brian's Winter, 13-year-old Brian Robesen is still stuck in the wilderness. Fall comes and Brian starts to notice that it is getting colder outside. He decides that he must improve his shelter and the clothing that he has to stay alive in the Canadian wilderness. Winter gets closer and closer so Brian must gather more than enough supplies to stay alive during the winter. Snow falls and Brian is packed in the shelter for days at a time. He learns how to skin and gut an animal and how to make clothing out of it. Brian is also faced with other challenges.I thought this book was very well planned out and it had many details. It also taught me something about how to stay alive during a cold period of time if I ever came across the situation Brian was ever in. I also liked how Brian had a connection with some of the animals in the wilderness such as the wolves because he learned how to make territory with his urine. I disliked how in some parts of the book it didn't make sense to me at all and at times this book was a little boring because I'm not into a lot of action books like this one, so sometimes I lost interest in the book.
If I were to rate the book 1-5 I would give Brian's Winter a 3 ½ because like I said before the book would get very boring in certain places but all and all it was an interesting and educational book.It also had a lot of details also.