Hatchet: Figurative Language 2

Between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, the engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died.

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Brian pushed the nose of the plane down and threw up.

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The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide that ate altitude, and suddenly there weren't any lakes.

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The plane was nearly aimed at the long part of the L, coming from the bottom.

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He slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground--all like a picture.

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He knew he would hit and die, would die, but his luck held.

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Just as he was to hit, he came into an open lane, a channel of fallen trees.

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The plane was committed now to landing, to crashing.

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The plane fell into the wide place like a stone.

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The plane rolled to the right and blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake, skip once on water as hard as concrete.

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