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Lincoln's Doorways Analysis
My introduction would be that Lincoln used “Doorways” to get to different world. This doorway idea is trying to show how Lincoln used the books he read and had access to widen his view of the world and better himself at the same time, and at the same time these doorways are not just books, they are also can mean people like Jack Kelso and the people of New Salem. That these “Doorways” improved his life and help make him the man that he will later become.
This is the outline of my presentation the stories and concepts that I will be using to help explain Kelso and Lincoln’s relationship with one another.
The first stories I would bring up is that Kelso was a hunter and fisherman that Lincoln would joined Kelso on his fishing trips, but the

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