Who did what?

Jake typed the information on Brian's Winter, Rob helped find the details, Nate was the wiseman who contributed alot, Joe and Mike got pictures.

Review

First there was Hatchet, Paulsen's classic tale of a boy's survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn't been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again")

Characters

One of the obstacles that Brian overcomes is a huge bear giving him multiple attacks. On one of the bear attacks the bear destroys part of Brian's camp.
Another major obstical he must over come is finding food in the winter months. He was able to overcome this challenege by being resilent and finding a way to kill muiple animals such deer, moose, rabits, fool birds and fish.
The snunk, Betty became Brian's companion. Being alone in the wilderness made Brian feel lonely so he tried to find someone or something to fill the void of friendship. Betty also saved Brian from the ferocious bear by spraying the bear to fend it off.
Brian is alone in the wilderness trying to survive. The winter comes up on him very fast and catches him off guard. Brian survived the winter by making a bow and arrows out of woods materials to kill a moose and later on a deer. He used the moose hide to make a winter parka and used deer hide as boots to keep him warm.

Overview

Brian's Winter is a sequel to the book Hatchet, also by Gary Paulsen. It is a story revolving around a resilient character as if he wasn't rescued.