Sidd Vs Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer, the main character of Mark Twain’s classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is compared to Arnie, a character from the short story,

In my visual, I have included a backdrop consisting of the town in which he resides. Within the scene, the houses and buildings are colored darker to represent the citizens’ negative feelings towards Tom. Once sold, it can be properly inferred that no one was going to “miss… Tom” (Twain 78). This disadvantage of the deceit in Pudd’nhead Wilson was that Tom’s personality developed for the worse. This is evident in him being sold down the river as his actions and personality, being driven by greed and a false lifestyle given by Roxy, tainted his reputation. His mistreatment of Chambers, his gambling, or “gaming debts,” and drinking addiction, all stemmed from being an imposter; Roxy’s deception moved Tom in the wrong direction, making him an immoral person (Twain 38). In my visual, I have included two rocks on either side of the boat that Tom is in. This represents his wrongdoings and the guilt that he carries as a result of his actions when he should have been a slave. If those rocks were removed then the boat would tip over, sink, and drown him. Despite his misconduct, Tom must live with the consequences of deceit, one of which is becoming a

On the outside Tom looks like who he pretends to be, though the reflection of his hand in the dagger reveals his palmistry and fingerprints which shows who he truly is as a person. Only Pudd’nhead Wilson is able to use the clues that the dagger unveils to identify Tom as the murderer instead of the twins. To everyone else, Tom appears innocent and no one looks into the possibility of him murdering Judge Driscoll. This is the clear case of nature versus nurture and also how it is easy for people to make assumptions about a person based on his skin color and

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer appears in St Petersburg and at the Phelps’ farm as Huck Finn’s companion. Though Tom serves as Huck’s partner-in-crime of sorts, the two boys contrast in crucial perceptual and behavioral aspects: where Tom possesses a love for romanticism and a strict policy of adherence to societal conventions and codes, Huck possesses a skeptical sort of personality in which he tends to perceive society’s infatuations as frivolous. Tom’s presence represents an overlying trend in behavior for Mark Twain’s era wherein individuals adhere to an idealistic social code that justifies the subjugation of others for the entertainment of the privileged populus. In this regionalist critical novel, Mark Twain uses Tom Sawyer as a vehicle to reveal the dangers of an idealistic society and how idealism leads to society rationalizing its day-to-day standards; thereby, its idealism serves to hide the questionable moral behaviors prevalent in Twain’s era.

In novels, characters are written with care and a purpose with every word. These actions and words are carefully welded together to form a characters that go through development and have emerging traits. A character can be clever, athletic or mindful in social situations. For example in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, his characters are purposely written in a specific way, so that they fit into the story’s plot and insure that the readers interest is maintained. Yet when Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim was not meant to be a character to catch the reader's eye. In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim is written an undynamic and flat character, who is always dependent on others.

This false sense allows Jackson to effectively demonstrate how people can become creatures of habit. The reader’s expectations when reading this story, in comparison to the ironic outcome in the final paragraphs, are significantly

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain the character Huckleberry Finn shows neglect, the parents in town despise him, and all the children admire him. Huck Finn shows neglect by the way he physically looks. The clothes that he wears are the clothes of a grown man, as a result they are baggy and torn from being over-worn. This is because his father does not care for him or buy him the correct size clothing. The parents that live in the town despise Huck because they view him as being a potential bad influence on their children. They forbid their children from being around him or playing with him. Huck’s father is a drunkard and the adults in the town are aware of this, so they do not want their kids around Huck. They fear that his father’s

In the story The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is described as the “Juvenile pariah” of the village, and how he was despised by all the mothers of the town. However, based on the events that took place earlier these are not accurate representations of who he really is, because of how he helped the widow Douglas, stayed loyal to Tom, and how well he treated Muff. The first reason why he should not be considered an awful kid is how compassionate his actions toward the widow Douglas were. When hanging out in town he saw two figures running toward the edge of town, so he followed them. They were soon found out to be Injun Joe and his accomplice trying to get revenge for Injun Joe, and how he was whipped.

Tom will go to great lengths to get money. When Tom chases Injun Joe so that he could steal the treasure Injun found, Injun,

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain has a distinctive way of making you love and despise Injun Joe, the villain. First appearing in chapter 9 and disappearing for most of the work, the nature of this character’s villainy enhances the work, by giving it suspense and has an extreme effect on the life and actions of the main character, Tom Sawyer. From the first moment you meet Injun Joe, you realize how malevolent this man is. When he comes on the scene for the first time, he is depicted as a “murderin’ half-breed!”(ch.9 pg.70) by Huckleberry Finn, and in the next couple of paragraphs you realize how true this statement truly is. After Injun Joe murders a man, testifies against an innocent man and has him arrested, Tom Sawyer tells the truth of that night.

During the adventures of Huck and Tom’s treasure hunting, the two came across the antagonist, Injun Joe. Earlier, Huck and Tom witnessed Injun Joe murder a doctor and put the blame on an innocent man. The two juvenile boys had made a vow that neither of them would tell anyone since they were scared that Injun Joe would come after them. This shows fear that most people would experience in this situation. Knowing that an innocent man will be punished for an act he did not commit, Tom’s conscience convinced him to testify against Injun Joe, freeing a guiltless man. “Critics... view incidents such as Tom's encounters with Injun Joe...as confrontations between innocence and evil which initiate Tom into the world of adult responsibilities and consequences.”

This was the case for the therapist, Dr. Throne, “Three hundred pounds of Texas chili, cornbread and Lone Star beer, finished off with big black cowboy boots and a little string tie around his neck,” (Bloom, 2006. P. 161). People in reality are complex and cannot be all good or all bad. The author also used flaws, and intricate details to make the characters, more relatable. People have flaws and insecurities, it makes people feel less alone when they read about flaws in a character.

“It was seven o’clock when we got into the coupe with Gatsby and started for Long Island.” Gatsby and Tom raced to Long Island in separate cars. Gatsby and Daisy were in one car and Jordan, Nick and Tom were in the other. When they passed the Valley of Ashes, Myrtle saw them go by she didn’t want to be with Mr. Wilson anymore she wanted to be with Tom. Myrtle had feelings for Tom the whole time but she decided to run out and instead of getting in the car with Tom and having a life with him, she got hit by the car and she died.

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has stirred up much controversy over such topics as racism, prejudice and gender indifference, but the brunt of the criticism has surrounded itself around the ending, most notably with the re-entry of Tom Sawyer. Some people viewed the ending as a bitter disappointment, as shared by people such as Leo Marx. The ending can also be viewed with success, as argued by such people as Lionel Trilling, T.S. Eliot, V. S. Pritchett and James M. Cox in their essays and reviews. I argue that the ending of the novel proves successful in justifying the innocence of childhood through such themes as satire and frivolous behaviour.

The power of childhood innocence reveals the true incompetence of the world around us in a brutal yet fanciful way. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee creates the unjust rape trial of Tom Robinson to shed light upon how the power of childhood innocence reveals the true racially-based corruption of the time period. Through the eyes of a child named Scout and the focus on two other child protagonists, Dill and Jean, Lee highlights the way a child views the world versus those jaded by the depravity of humanity. Harper Lee focuses upon the characterization of Scout, Dill, and Jean to present the idea that childhood innocence is blinded from the true evils of society.