CANYONS

CANYON RELATES TO HATCHET BECAUSE

• 1)It tells of a story about a teenage boy who becomes
• A man by surviving in the wilderness.
• 2)Both Brennan and Brian see things in a different way
• At the end of the story.
• 3) both boy's mothers are without a husband.

SETTING

• 1850s, Present day, the Apache camp,
• Dog Canyon, El Paso, Homsley's house,
• Brennan's House, the desert, and Cardiff School.
• It has an impact on the story because if the setting was
• In the forest and not in the desert the challenges for Brennan might be easier

CHARACTERS

• Major: Brennan: has thick brown hair long legs likes to run, color of skin is of rich burnt leather
• Coyote Runs: Apache boy, wants to be a man
• Homsley: enormous, tall, heavy, Bordering on fat, like a bear, rounded shoulders, dark curly hair neatly
• trimmed beard
• Minor: Brennan's mother, doesn't describe her, Tibbets: tall, thin, Magpie: doesn't describe him

CHARACTERS

CONFLICT

• 1)The conflict of the story is Brennan found a skull and is trying to figure out if the skull is a murder from the
• present or the pastThis conflict is inner conflict.
• 2)This conflict is inner conflict.
• 3)Brennan is talking with Coyote Runs in his mind and is trying to figure out what it means.

PLOT

• Exposition: Brennan finds a skull and is curious about it and try's to find some information about it.
• Rising action: Brennan finds out the skull is a boy's skull and gets Homsley to help him with the skull.
• Climax: Brennan's mother finds out about the skull.
• Falling action: Brennan runs into the desert and is being chased by a rescue team..
• Resolution: Brennan finds the medicine place and places the skull on a tall rock.