Literature Analysis #1

1. A boy named Brian Robeson, is stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 54 days.
2. The theme is man versus nature and man versus himself. Brian is surrounded by nature and must overcome the obstacles the wilderness brings, and Brian versus himself because he's trying to come to terms with his parents divorce and the secret he knows behind the divorce.
3. I imagine the author being very outdoorsy, and knows a lot about trying to survive  in the wilderness. I think he drinks coffee and has eggs, bacon, and toast for breakfast. He may have an occasional drink but never gets drunk to the point where he wakes up hungover. He exercises a lot and goes for runs in the forest, and he also knows a lot about nature. 1st excerpt: "L- shaped with rounded corners, and the plane was nearly aimed at the long part of the L, coming from the bottom and heading to the top."  2nd excerpt: "And in his belt, somewhere still there, the hatchet his mother had given him." 3rd excerpt: " Maybe cover it with grass or leaves or sticks he thought, and he started to go down to the lake again where there were some willows he could cut down for braces.
4. Literary techniques: 1. Onomatopoeia: "For a second all he heard was the whosssh of the empty air waves." 2. Simile: "The memory was like a knife cutting into him." 3. "But the hatchet missed, sailed into the wall where it hit the rocks with a shower of sparks, and his leg was instantly torn with pain, as if a hundred needles had been driven into it." 4. Foreshadowing: "Aches and pains- must be getting old." 5. Simile: "It was as if his hands were lead."