Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 1

When a plane went down they mounted extensive searches and almost always they found the plane within a day or two.

Probably come in here with amphibious planes, small bushplanes with floats that could land right here on the lake and pick him up and take him home.

There was nothing obvious to eat and aside from about a million birds and the beaver he hadn’t seen animals to trap and cook, and even if he got one somehow he didn’t have any matches so he couldn’t have a fire...

All Perpich would say is that I have to get motivated. He was always telling kids to get motivated.

Perpich used to drum that into them—"You are your most valuable asset. Don’t forget that. You are the best thing you have.”

Perhaps the single most catastrophic event in Brian’s life in Hatchet is when the pilot dies of a heart attack.

My wife and I lived then in a small prairie town in the middle of farm country, near the confluence of two major highways.

He looked at me and smiled sheepishly, as if to apologize for the inconvenience, and started to say something but then stopped and looked again at the floor in what soldiers call the thousand-yard stare.

He looked at me and smiled sheepishly, as if to apologize for the inconvenience, and started to say something but then stopped and looked again at the floor in what soldiers call the thousand-yard stare.

His wife, a thin woman in jeans and a sweatshirt, stood by him, and she gave me what we called the Look—an expression that meant Thank God you’re here please save him please save him please save him.