The River (A Yearling Book)
by Gary Paulsen
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Book Reviews of The River (A Yearling Book)
Book Review: Very realistic Characters
Summary: 4 Stars
A Review by MikeIn the River it is the sequel to Hatchet and it is about this kid Brain who survived in the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet and he had to build his shelter and hunt his food this isn't a very easy task for a 14 year old who only has a hatchet and normally relies on his every day things like food and clean clothes. Well in The River Brain is asked to go back to the wilderness and face the horrible experience that he has faced in the past. The government comes and asks Brain to go in the wilderness with one of there doctors to see his thoughts and emotions. They want to make a survival book about him because he is the only person that knows the real thing. He eventually accepts the invitation because they have the whole thing planed and mapped out so Brain feels safe. He finds out that it was a very bad decision.
I liked the book a lot it was good in describing the situation and the characters were very realistic and they weren't stupid characters. I think that Gary Paulsen could have thought about a better way to put these two books together. The story was put together well but could have been better and the length of the book was a good length I didn't feel like falling asleep when I was reading this story. The plot was good it was something that could be a real situation. The ending in the book also could have been better. Most people would be able to understand the stories language it was very easily to understand and there were no words that I didn't understand. The story is some types of book I like.
I definitely recommend this book to a lot of people because the book was good and it kind of makes you feel like you are with the characters in this story. I would recommended this book to almost every age group.
Book Review: Reviewed for Mrs. Hassell's 5th grade class at St. John's
Summary: 5 Stars
The River is a great sequel to Gary Paulsen's book Hatchet. The main characters are Brian, the boy who had been in the wilderness, and Derek, a man who wants to see how Brian survived. In this novel Derek wants to go back into the wilderness with Brian to learn how he survived. Derek wants to be able to teach astronauts and the military how to survive. This time Brian is not alone because Derek is with him. When Brian and Derek got to the lake at night, the mosquitoes attacked them like rain attacks the roof of my house. This reminds me of the times when I go to camp and get attacked by mosquitoes. When this happens, I feel miserable just like Brian did. Then I walk around itching, scratching and feeling like I want to die. When Derek was shocked by lightning, Brian had to decide to stay there or take Derek down the river to get help. Brian had to float down the river. This reminds me of when I had to do forty jumps in the air at tennis practice. I didn't want to do it, but I had to, just like Brian had to go down the river. It is very hard to do forty jumps because it hurts your back. I knew I had to do it to stay in the clinic just like Brian knew he had to go down the river. Brian had alot of fear when he fell off the raft. I have that same fear about roller coasters. Nobody made me go on them, but I am still afraid of them. I can imagine how it must feel to be afraid and then actually to have to go ahead and do it. The River is a great novel. Everyone who likes adventure should read this book. I like Brian because he had the courage to follow through with things. He doesn't whine about things; he just does what he has to do. We sometimes slack off and whine about things. When we do, we should think of BrianBook Review: Brief Summary and Review of The River!
Summary: 4 Stars
Brian Robeson had already survived fifty-four days in the wilderness of Canada. He was proud to be at home where he could enjoy luxuries that we take for granted like a roof over our head and good food to eat. Yet, he is asked to take the challenge again by Derek Holtzer, a psychologist, in the hopes of helping others (soldiers, pilots, etc.) make their way after being stranded. At first Brian was skeptical, yet somewhere in his mind, he knew that he had to do it. He even missed the wilderness! With the permission of his parents, Brian and Derek set off on a new adventure of survival to a new area of wilderness. During the trip on the bush plane, Brian was convinced that something was just not right. They were taking too many supplies. So, he convinced Derek to leave all of the supplies behind save for the radio and the briefcase with a map and notebooks. Luckily, Brian and Derek found shelter, food and made fire rather quickly. However, their luck changes with a bolt of lightning! With Derek in a coma, Brian makes and navigates a raft down the river from Necktie Lake to the safety of Brannock Trading Post. The River is a great book about survival and adaptation to the bad luck life sometimes presents. The book descriptively depicts the location and the power and drive that people call on to accomplish certain tasks. This book would be great for students in 4th grade and beyond. Teachers could use this book when studying habitat, Canada, maps, survival techniques, geography, etc. and can be integrated in to all subject areas especially Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, and Visual Arts. Overall, it is a fun book to read as well as a great follow-up story to The Hatchet, also by Gary Paulsen.Book Review: A Do Not Read Book!
Summary: 1 Stars
The River was a headache inducing book! I do not recommend this book to anyone because it doesn't have that Gary Paulsen feel to it. This book lacks every thing and I don't know how Gary wrote this book when he usually writes great, award-winning, and action-packed books. The problems with it are that it was extremely time consuming, it has a boring plot, a bad theme, and it is predictable.
There was not much action in the book and all that really happened was that Brian went down a river to get home. Brian went into the woods to show a government official how he survived in the wilderness. The government official or Derek brought lots of supplies to help them survive but Brian refused to bring any of it but the radio. The radio proved to have no use after Derek and the radio got struck by lightning and Derek fell into a coma. Then this is where the boring going down a river thing started.
This book has absolutely nothing close to a theme whatsoever. This is because the only thing that happened was Brian built a raft to go down a river to get home. Also there was no action to the book except when Derek comes knocking at Brian's front door in the beginning. This book could have been filled with much more action and I have proof from the way Gary wrote Hatchet. I think that one piece of exciting action could have been if there was a waterfall. Brian thought there was going to be a water fall but it was just rapids.
As I said before, this is a do not read book. I will never recommend this book to any one and I hope no one will ever read it. I know people will and I feel bad for them wasting their time on this book. That is my review for The River by Gary Paulsen.
Book Review: The Rivers Rage
Summary: 5 Stars
The book The River by Gary Paulsen is about a boy named Brian Robensen. He is about 15 years old, and is just getting used to being home after being stranded in the Canadian Wilderness Area. Three men come to his home and ask him to do it again. He decides he will do it to save peoples lives. One man, Derrick, who is with the wilderness survival center, goes with him to the wilderness. The plane leaves and the two only have a radio to call if there is trouble. Trouble comes in the form of lightning, and strands Brian with Derrick in a coma, and the radio is dead. He decides the river is his only hope to civilization... The book overall was good, but There were one or two things I didn't like, such as Gary Paulsen doesn't explain the camping site very well. He just says that it has a fort, and a fire pit, and the usual camping site stuff. He should have described into detail the fort, and the fire pit, and all the rest of it. Another thing I didn't like was the fact that he introduced the two problems at once. It isn't very realistic that Derrick was holding the radio during his sleep, and the lightning bolt just happened to hit right as the two were sleeping. One thing I did like was the non stop action the whole time after the introduction of the problem. Brian is constantly chasing a raft, or pulling on the raft. I really liked the action of this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes wilderness survival, or action books, or who just like to try to figure out how to overcome a problem. You are constantly guessing how he will get out of a problem or if he will get out of problems.