Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Gary Paulsen
88/256 Pages Read
The main character in the novel is Gary Paulsen. This book is an autobiography of Paulsen's life at the time. Although he is the main character and the story is from his point of view, the dog team he runs is composed of some main characters in the book. Paulsen's personality is very eager to run the dogs for a longer time, and he is also very trustworthy in his dogs and he believes they can make a great team when running the Iditarod trail in Alaska. An example to show Paulsen eagerness is from page 79:
"Finally, I saw a picture of a dog team training for the Iditarod in Canada in the early fall. there were fifteen dogs, all about the size of my dogs, hooked into a conventional gangline.
They were pulling a car.
A whole car. Motor, windshield, doors, the works. It even had a back seat. A couple was sitting in the car, leaning out the windows, out of the weather most decidedly not dragging on their faces and smiling at the camera.
A whole car.
I was by this time running fifteen dogs, seven of which were already strong, on a rig that weighed, at most, 120 pounds. The couple in the picture were pulling something that weighed over a ton with the same amount of dogs. Perhaps more to the point, they were smiling and I had done little but grimace in terror for the last thirty or forty runs.
I took Ruth and left the house that night headed for ton in the old Ford.
'Where are we going?' she asked.
'To the junkyard. We're going to pull a clunker home and make a rig. It's time to get serious about this training business.'" (Paulsen 79)
*Yes, I know that may be a really long quote
Gary Paulsen
88/256 Pages Read
The main character in the novel is Gary Paulsen. This book is an autobiography of Paulsen's life at the time. Although he is the main character and the story is from his point of view, the dog team he runs is composed of some main characters in the book. Paulsen's personality is very eager to run the dogs for a longer time, and he is also very trustworthy in his dogs and he believes they can make a great team when running the Iditarod trail in Alaska. An example to show Paulsen eagerness is from page 79:
"Finally, I saw a picture of a dog team training for the Iditarod in Canada in the early fall. there were fifteen dogs, all about the size of my dogs, hooked into a conventional gangline.
They were pulling a car.
A whole car. Motor, windshield, doors, the works. It even had a back seat. A couple was sitting in the car, leaning out the windows, out of the weather
A whole car.
I was by this time running fifteen dogs, seven of which were already strong, on a rig that weighed, at most, 120 pounds. The couple in the picture were pulling something that weighed over a ton with the same amount of dogs. Perhaps more to the point, they were smiling and I had done little but grimace in terror for the last thirty or forty runs.
I took Ruth and left the house that night headed for ton in the old Ford.
'Where are we going?' she asked.
'To the junkyard. We're going to pull a clunker home and make a rig. It's time to get serious about this training business.'" (Paulsen 79)
*Yes, I know that may be a really long quote
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