How were the young years of Abraham Lincoln spent?

Answer 1

The Young Years Of Abraham Lincoln.

When the early settlers began their great march to the West, new states were formed on their way, one among those earliest being Kentucky. It was a beautiful state with dense forests, trees and far-stretching grass lands where Abraham Lincoln was born in a small farm and brought up upto eight years. There his beloved mother taught him to read books and in the evenings sat with him by the fireside telling him stories. Those were his unforgettable years of primary education. Then the family moved further West, crossed the great Ohio river and settled in the newly formed state of Indiana which had no cities, towns and villages, but forests, forests and forests. Trees were cut, they cleared the forest and built an eighteen square feet log house which had a loft in the roof and that was Abe's bed. Even the eight year old Abe was given an axe to help in the work- the initial training which made Abe Lincoln, Able Lincoln. This lonely family cleared the ground and planted corn, hunted game in the forest and caught fish from the rivers. After his hard work in the fields and forests, he found one or two hours daily to read books by the firelight, among which the Bible, John Banyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Life of George Washington and Aesop's Fables were his favourites. He was an avid reader. When a school master came to live many miles away, young Lincoln and his sister daily walked those long distances to and fro to learn things. At his eleventh year his mother died and two years later his father presented them with a kind new mother who took care of the children extremely well.

There have been questions on the tallness of Abraham Lincoln for which there has been only one logical answer- good food, hard labour and a clean environment. At seventeen he was Six feet Four inches tall and he grew big and strong each day. Timber cutting was their livelihood and he cut more trees than any daily. If in the forest trees were heard falling one after the other, people knew that Lincoln was at work. He was the prize-winning runner, jumper, swimmer and shooter. Long walks in the hills and forests were his hobby. He hated to kill. Animals, birds, trees, rivers and snow, all shared his ardence. And he liked debates, arguments and talking and assembled his friends till midnight doing these things. Once he walked thirty four miles to hear a famous lawyer speak and see him setting free an innocent accused of murder through his eloquence and oratory skills. It was then and there that the impressed Abe decided to make himself a lawyer. So in the woods he made imaginary speeches to the trees and birds, perfecting the skill. And thus his teen years were over.

But the World remembers him for his two great acts, preventing the young United States from separation in a civil war and abolishing slavery as a guiding beacon to this world. This was made possible through an adventurous journey undertaken by him at twenty one, so it cannot be left out here. He with his friend following the business advice of his father undertook an One thousand Eight hundred mile journey in a small boat down the Mississippi which is one of the greatest rivers in this world. Their destination was New Orleans where they reached enduring rapids and human attacks on the way. There for the first time in his life he saw slave labourers working in the cotton plantations. Also he saw slave auctions. The humiliation he saw in the eyes of those girls, mothers, children and men being sold in auction in markets there made his determination to wipe out this human evil from the face of this earth and to make this world rid of suppressors and dictators which in time culminated in the firm policy of his native land.