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How Does Tom Sawyer Learn Today

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a tremendous book that beautifully shows what it is like to be a boy. As you work your way through the book, you will find very realistic adventures and lessons that boy’s all around still have and learn today. Our first point concerns pirates. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer we find a wonderful example of this point. Tom and his friends run away from home and swear to be pirates together. A memorable part of this section in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when they use their pirate names.
‘ “Who goes there?” “Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main. Name your names.” “Huck Finn the …show more content…

Here I go over to Sereny Harper, like an old softy, expecting I’m going to make her believe all that rubbage about that dream, when lo and behold she found out from Joe that you was over here and heard all the talk we had that night.”’ (Twain 166)
Playing as a pirate is not the only game that Tom Sawyer plays. In Chapter 8 we find Tom playing Robin Hood with his friend Joe Tucker. They both have a wonderful afternoon playing as the outlaws in Sherwood Forest, and they argue when they disagree on what happened in the book.
‘“Now,” said Joe, getting up, “you’ve got to let me kill you. That’s fair.”’ Tom replies with this. ‘“Why, I can’t do that, it ain’t in the book.”’ (Twain 79)All around you will find boys playing as their favorite characters from a certain book or movie, and always you can find arguing when one character tends to get beat more than another. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a book that is well loved all around the world today, and throughout all of it, you can find wonderful examples of what it means to be a boy. Fathers warn their children not to lie like Tom Sawyer. Grandfathers love to pass away hot afternoons weaving wild stories to tell to their grandchildren of times when they had played as if they were Tom Sawyer. And all around, boys will take these legends and spend long days playing in

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