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Plot Summary of Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet And The Brian Books
"‘Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books' was one of my favourite books. It talked about Gary Paulson's experiences like using bow-and-arrows, killing animals, and surviving independently in wilderness with nobody at his side.

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Arnav Agarwal, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet And The Brian Books
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Plot
Outdoors story Yes
Exploring: - surviving in outdoors

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 60's-90's
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 6 (an above average amount)
Forest? Yes
Century: - 19th century

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - in awe
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
If this is a kid's book: - Age 11-14
Autobiography? Yes
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