tips from "Hatchet"

I thought the book had a much deeper insight on life than it cared to admit. An entire life's worth of feelings and struggles are fit into 54 days in the wild. I thought that's how life sometimes feels - a constant struggle ("nothing is easy here"). And depression can be overcome with "things to do". The story is told in a simple way, yet without warning there is a very deep thought and you are stopped by it, and confronted.