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Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain: Connections With My Life
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain has a lot of connections with my life. This book has a lot of moments that reflected parts of my life that I am going to talk about in this essay. The book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn journeys through the Mississippi River to the Phelps farm with his friend Tom Sawyer. Through his journey, some moments had some connection to moments of my childhood. The first connection was When he was in St. Petersburg and was playing with his friends. I had childhood memories with my friends and family. I remember playing “robber” with some friends and enjoying time with my family. On chapter four, he said he never liked school at first, then he got used to it and didn’t become a problem anymore, which

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