Jacob Have I Loved

Jacob Have I Loved

Katharine Patterson

Jacob Have I Loved is a great book for any child that resents their siblings, because that's how this twin sister relationship is best described. Sara Louise recalls her difficult adolescence on Rass Island and her intense jealousy of her own twin sister Caroline. Caroline is a selfish, over protected person and Sara Louise feels like her life is based on competing with the most admired sister Caroline. Caroline always got what she wanted and was considered to be the attractive one, smarter one by her mother and grandmother. Foe example one day before attending church when Sara Louise unexpectedly "became a woman" she stained her Sunday dress and couldn't go to church.

A 13 year old kid named Brian who crash lands in the Canadian wilderness and has to survive on his own. Brian is flying to Alaska to visit his dad for the summer when suddenly the pilot has a heart attack and dies. He grabs onto the controls and tries to land the plane but there's no flat area so he decides to crash into a lake. He hustles out of the plane with his hatchet at his side and swims to the shore. Hatchet is the story of his survival in the wilderness with only a hatchet. Hatchet takes place in the wilderness of Canada. This setting is important because he has no man made tools or food. He has to use the natural resources and his brain. Brian uses his hatchet to make a shelter and weapons. He chops down branches and sets them up for his shelter. "With the branches he interlaced and wove a wall of the opening of the front of the rocks." (p.65) Then he goes to get grass to put on top of the branches.

Wilber is one of the main characters of the story. He is a spring pig and when he was born he was a runt and a terrible faith awaited him but the little girl Fern saved his life. He was loved by her. Later

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