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Summary Of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains
Patrice Branch
Mrs. Vermilion
AP Language and Composition
01 November 2015
Mountains Beyond Mountains summary
The award winning nonfiction biography by Tracy Kidder, gives the reader an encounter of the life of Paul Farmer, a doctor who travel the world in search of a cure to save people suffering from AIDS and Tuberculous in countries in poverty. The book is divided in to five sections, each section giving a different time an point of view of the over theme that all people even in poor nations should be given a chance to access the same health care. In section Part I Doktè Paul, the Haitian name for doctor, we are first introduced to Doctor Farmer and the type of man he is. The reader learn how caring and passionate he is for his patient’s
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