Hatchet
Chapter 12
Tuesday March 6, 2012
Brian spends many hours perfecting his fish spear, but in the end it fails to help him catch any fish. In need of a way to send the spear into the water, Brian decides to make a bow and arrow. While searching for wood, Brian almost steps on a bird and the animal flies up in a flurry of feathers. It occurs to Brian to try to catch these birds that he almost stepped on earlier. Coming in as slightly smaller than chickens, Brian names these creatures "foolbirds." At that moment a plane flies overhead, giving Brian hope that the searchers have come for him. Gesturing and yelling at the top of his lungs, Brian falls into despair and hopelessness when the plane flies past him and away into the horizon. He begins to lose faith that he will ever see his family and friends again, and experiences profound emptiness and loneliness.
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