Huckleberry Finn Comparison

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Huckleberry Finn and I have very similar characteristics and I will tell you about some of them. One of the first ones is that we both hate school with a passion. Huck is forced to go to school when he doesn’t want to go and that’s similar to my situation. One of the differences about me and Huck is that we have different types of fathers. My dad is a very hard working and loving dad but of the other hand Huck’s father is a drunk bum who drinks every day and doesn’t work. Another difference about me and Huck is that I love having nice think like clothes and shoes but Huck doesn’t really care for those things. A similarity of me and Huck is that we both love adventures. He traveled down the Mississippi river and he had an adventure and I would

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