Abe Lincoln Grows Up Quotes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 66 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Abe Lincoln Grows Up.

Abe Lincoln Grows Up Quotes

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Kentucky had been admitted to the Union of states; there were places in the state where civilization had dented the wilderness; but it was still a country of uncut timber, land unknown to the plow, a region where wolves and bear, wild animals and the Indians still claimed their rights and titles, with tooth and fang, claw and club and knife.
-- Narrator (Chapter 2)

Importance: The narrator is drawing a conclusion that the Native Americans were uncivilized and behaved like animals to cast them in an unfavorable light. Here, the narrator defines wilderness with its binary term, civilization. The fact that Kentucky is a state in the Union is juxtaposed with the fact that it was still vastly unsettled to support the notion that what happens in the wilderness is uncivilized. The narrator emphasizes this by labeling the land inhabited by pioneers as “places…where civilization had dented the wilderness,” making the rest of...

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