In hatchet, brian learns how to survive in the wilderness. what does brian learn? / how does his experience contribute to the theme of the story? use details from the story to support your response.

When setting up this answer, you should use evidence from the text to help you.  A theme to this story could be, "even when the end seems to come each day, one can always find new hope and ways to survive".  Sticking to that theme, what did you read in the story that proves this theme to be true?  What ways did Brian learn to survive?  By finding shelter? Hunting for food?  The answers to these questions IS stating how his experience contributed to the theme, so you will have answered both parts.

although mowgli is no longer accepted by the pack, he will always love his mother and brothers.

bildungsroman is a german word for novel covering youth to adulthood which describes a coming-of-age story