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Comparison of Jim from Huckleberry Finn or Ethan Frome

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How can you compare Jim's situation from Huck FInn to Ethan Frome's situation. How are the two characters alike and how are they different. Base your answers on information regarding their genre. Which character has more of a chance of "making it" and why?

Jim from The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and Ethan Frome from Ethan Frome share many incidents in a indistinguishable occurrence. They also share many qualities that allow each of these two characters to have divergent and duplicate qualities. Jim is from the deep south in Missouri near the treacherous Mississippi River. Ethan while on the other hand is from Starkville, Massachusetts up north where the weather is ceaseless with snow. These two extraordinary distinct characters share certain qualities and event that make their occurrence in their distinct stories. Jim’s sitution is that he ran away from a lady named Miss.Watson who was his owner/master with a boy named Huckleberry Finn. Ethan Frome situation is that his mother died which led to his second cousin Zeena to come over and taking care of his farm house but while she is there Zeena gets sick and is required personal assistance from another person that is not Ethan because he is required to work the farm and pay the bills so Zeena sends for cousin Mattie Silver a young beautiful woman that Ethan a married man begins to form feelings of lust towards her. JIm can be described as shrewd, wise, and superstitious character that was written during the time before

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