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Plot Summary of Paper Dragons
"Growing up in small-town Kentucky in the fifties and sixties. Exploration and discovery of self. Searching for "greener pastures" elsewhere and finding them in the least suspected place."
Ray Farmer, Resident Scholar




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Plot
job/profession: - musician
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Ethnic/regional/gender Yes

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Small town? Yes
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - encouraged
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - Dry-cynical - satire
Writer's slant towards subject: - very favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
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