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.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.