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Brian’s mother lives in the New York City area and works in real estate. She described mostly in terms of her divorce from Brian’s father. She has an affair with another man and initiates the end of her marriage, although she is not aware that Brian knows about the affair. Although Brian is furious with his mother about the affair, he also longs for the comfort of her presence during his time in the wilderness and especially misses her cooking. Brian’s mother also gives him his hatchet as a gift before he leaves on the plane, which enables him to survive for several months in the wilderness after the crash.
Brian’s Mother Quotes in Hatchet
The Hatchet quotes below are all either spoken by Brian’s Mother or refer to Brian’s Mother. 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 Mother Quotes in Hatchet
The Hatchet quotes below are all either spoken by Brian’s Mother or refer to Brian’s Mother. 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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