Comparison Of 'Backwoods Boy' Freeman And Honest Abe By Radner

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Have you ever been lied to well if Abraham Lincoln was your friend he would never lie to you? All the struggles Lincoln went through may or may not have made him as kind and thoughtful he was as a kid. The central idea BackWoods Boy by Freedman and Honest Abe by Radner have very similar ways of developing both of three central ideas by showing how Lincoln acted and in both passages they described Lincoln as very kind. but they also had two very different views of the BackWoods Boy showed his childhood and how his life was and how he got into politics. HA just focused on his life in the store and what Lincoln would do to be fair and not cheap out a customer. In paragraph one I will write about the similarities. To start with I will explain …show more content…

On page 410 it says¨ Abraham Lincoln never liked to talk much about the early childhood he lived in a small log cabin with one bedroom and one window.¨ this shows how the author of the backwoods boy shows lincoln's childhood to develop his central idea. In paragraph 2 of honest abe, it states ¨ lincoln could not stand the idea of cheating anyone even though there were mistakes at the store he always managed to fix them.¨ this shows how in honest abe it focuses more on the time he worked at the store to develop her central idea. Another difference in the two ways the author developed to three central ideas is one showed how he had an interest in politics and in the other it did talk about him getting into politic for instance in the backwoods boy on page 417 it says ¨ after the store failed he wanted to run for Illinois state legislator because his friend said people go far in politics.¨ in honest abe it says nothing about him getting into politics. Lastly in the backwoods boy it also shows lincoln's hate towards slavery in the text it states on page 415 ¨ lincoln could not bare the sight of black men, women and kids walking in the street with chains around her ankles getting actioned of like cattle.¨ this shows why when he became

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