This
paper discusses how in "Roughing it in the Bush" Moodie has not only documented a life story, but has done so in an
entertaining manner. Her story reads like a novel;
interesting characters and captivating events make up the majority of her life. The paper explores the character of Brian, the still-hunter, to which Moodie devotes an entire chapter. The writer writers of a man who is kind to her family and whom she befriends, who helps her as she struggles with life in the bush. He makes for an interesting character, especially when one takes into account that he is completely fictitious and, in fact, dead.