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Plot Summary of How To Fight Back
"The best-seller 'Run, Baby, Run' tells the life of Nicky Cruz as a switchblade-wielding gang leader in the slums of New York, who found Jesus through the preacher David Wilkerson (a story also told in 'The Cross and the Switchblade'). In this book, published in 1991, he tells of his more recent experiences, preaching and evangelising in America and Europe. He details the personal tragedies and triumphs of many young people and families, who wrestle with drugs, violence, rape, and abuse both within and without the church. His theme is how to fight back against the alienation so many experience in the modern world, but with practical love and turning the other cheek, not physical weapons."
Michael JR Jose, Resident Scholar

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Plot
job/profession: - criminal (general)
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes
Struggle with - religion
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - religious figure
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Biography of famous person? Yes
Ethnicity - Hispanic/Latinic
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Europe Yes
Misc setting - prison
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
Book makes you feel? - challenged
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - rape/molest (yeech!)
Commentary on society? Yes
Commentary on - love/sex - selfishness - wicked men - wicked women - religion
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people? Yes
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story? - 0-25% of book
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