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Brian’s Mother
After divorcing from Brian’s mother, Brian’s father moves to Northern Canada to pursue his career as a mechanical engineer. Brian’s father is not described in detail, but Brian feels sympathetic toward him because of his mother’s affair, which Brian’s father presumably never finds out about. Paulson hints that Brian feels a strong bond with his father, as when Brian imagines telling his father all about the mistakes that he makes in the wilderness. Brian also dreams of his father wanting to tell him something important, an experience which leads Brian to figure out how to make fire with the hatchet.
Brian’s Father Quotes in Hatchet
The Hatchet quotes below are all either spoken by Brian’s Father or refer to Brian’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce. The Secret. Fights. Split.
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Chapter 4
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Luck, he thought. I have luck, I had good luck there. But he knew that was wrong. If he had had good luck his parents wouldn’t have divorced because of the Secret and he wouldn’t have been flying with a pilot who had a heart attack and he wouldn’t be here where he had to have good luck to keep from being destroyed.
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Chapter 17
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He went to sleep thinking a kind of reverse question. He did not know if he would ever get out of this, could not see how it might be, but if he did somehow get home and go back to living the way he had lived, would it be just the opposite? Would he be sitting watching television and suddenly think about the sunset up in back of the ridge and wonder how the color looked in the lake?
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Brian’s Father Quotes in Hatchet
The Hatchet quotes below are all either spoken by Brian’s Father or refer to Brian’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce. The Secret. Fights. Split.
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Chapter 4
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Luck, he thought. I have luck, I had good luck there. But he knew that was wrong. If he had had good luck his parents wouldn’t have divorced because of the Secret and he wouldn’t have been flying with a pilot who had a heart attack and he wouldn’t be here where he had to have good luck to keep from being destroyed.
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Chapter 17
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He went to sleep thinking a kind of reverse question. He did not know if he would ever get out of this, could not see how it might be, but if he did somehow get home and go back to living the way he had lived, would it be just the opposite? Would he be sitting watching television and suddenly think about the sunset up in back of the ridge and wonder how the color looked in the lake?
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