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Summary Of Man By Tobias Wolff
Sig Andersson finds his father's dead body on the ice coming home from the wash building. The next day a man named Wolff shows up and says that Sid’s father stole gold from him. He tries to get where it is from Sig and his sister Anna. They never heard about their father stealing gold and Wolff starts to get Violent with them. They try many ways to escape Wolff. Sig takes him out on the dog sled to find some papers that he says has information about the gold and when they get there, he tries to abandon Wolff there but it doesn’t work. Sig then finds his father's old revolver and uses it to let Anna escape. He shoots it at Wolff but purposely misses because he didn’t want to be a killer. They escape and trap

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