... being. In a sweeping generalization you can try and summarize a persons characteristics but you would still be leaving out other qualities of the person that might be just as important. In chapter two of the text Slotkin writes about when Prescott Oakes who serves as an attorney at law came to Tom Lincoln and Abe and gives them papers. Prescott pulls the ... gets them he becomes very excited about reading showing his willingness to learn. When Abe starts to read the fables he has to teach himself. "At first he had to spell his way into it slow, but after a couple of days the words broke...

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