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Abe Lincoln has many traits and in "Honest Abe" and "Backwood Boy" Both give different traits of Lincolns like how he was very honest and many more. But in "Honest Abe" they focus more on his honesty whereas " Backwood Boy" Focuses on his character traits when he was younger. He is a very honest person and he teaches kids that being honest is really great.
First Freedman and Radner both show Abe's traits on how he is very honest. In “Backwoods Boy” It explains “As he traveled about the county, making surveys and delivering mail to faraway farms, people came to know him as an honest and dependable fellow”(418). This shows that people thought he was a very honest man when they got to know him more. In “Honest Abe” it says “That night, while
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