What is the Overall Message of the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen?

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the message in this book is that brian robeson is a 13 year old boy who's parents got a divorce is alone in the Canadian wilderness trying to figure out a way to to survvle all by himself while the pilot is down in the lake still in the plane that had crashed due to a heart attack that the pilot had had.
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