6.) A feeling Brian called clouddown, a feeling which made him want to take the hatchet and end it all, represents despair. 7.) The hatchet given to him by his mother symbolizes survival as it is the one tool he could never have done without. 8.) When Brian sees his face is cut and bleeding, swollen and lumpy, his hair is matted and there is a cut on his forehead, his eyes are slits in the middle