Comparing Huck Finn's Life

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Compare & contrast I will be comparing and contrasting Huck Finn life to my own life in this paper. I believe that his

life and my life are somewhat similar. Also I think have many of the same characteristics. I see a lot of

myself in him. Well to compare Huck to myself, we both have characteristics that are the same. Huck

likes adventure/nature. He likes to explore and loves being in nature. I like to be outside a lot I believe

that it gives you a freedom when you feel the air and the trees are just wonderful and seeing the blue

sky it just gives you a relief. Another reason is that Huck doesn’t want to wear nice clothes and neither

do I. Huck also at first didn’t like to go to school but then he liked to going to school after a while.
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Huck and I have many things in common that I

could go on that he has common sense and so do I. I mean I know when to have common sense and so

does Huck. We are both are not as superstitious when Jim says that the hair ball is lucky. He believes

that somethings are real but when he goes home and rubs lamps because Tom said that a genie would

Mia Mejia grant him three wishes he didn’t want to believe him. I don’t always believe what people tell me

Because sometimes it just doesn’t make sense. To contrast me and Huck have differences. When him

and Widow Douglas don’t get along because she makes him wear nice clothes and doesn’t want him to

smoke and not to act like a savage. My mom and I get along fine we have a good relationship she treats

me to do the right things. He and his father don’t get along because his father is a drunk and Huck fears

him, pap used to abuse Huck that’s why he does not like him and hates him. His father hates that he

goes to school. Huck learns how to read and write at school and pap doesn’t like it because it makes Pap

look like an idiot and a bad father. He tells Huck that he doesn’t want him to go to school he want

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