Tom Sawyer Chapters 25 - 35

This young boy’s name is Huckleberry Finn, and he is brave and yearning for adventure. He begins the story with a newly acquired fortune, but goes back to living in rags and in a barrel. Huckleberry is convinced by his best friend, Tom Sawyer, to go back to living with “The Widow” so that he can join Tom’s newly created band of robbers. The Widow Douglas is a woman who takes Huckleberry as her son and does her best to “sivilize” him: teaching him how to behave and forcing him to go to school. Huckleberry slips off and joins “The Tom Sawyer Gang” and pretends to rob people for about a month before he resigns. All this time, Huckleberry is getting used to living with the widow, even admitting that he likes it a little bit. Then, one day, his father shows up, demanding his fortune and eventually taking him to his log cabin, hidden in the woods. There Huck hunts and fishes, but is not permitted to leave. Eventually, “pap got too handy with his hick’ry” so Huck escapes down the river when his father is drunk. Huck hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, The Widow’s slave. Huck learns that Jim had run away from The Widow and so they decide to help each other out. But when Huck learns of a plan to search the island, they leave down the river. Several days later, they almost run into some robbers on a wrecked steamboat and manage to escape with their loot. When Huck and Jim land on the bank

In the novel The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain chapter 28 Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer go exploring in the alley. When they get to the alley Tom goes in, Huck thinks that it feels like he has been in the alley for days. All of the sudden Tom goes sprinting out of the alley and yells, “ RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Without questions the two ran to the old deserted slaughterhouse. There at the slaughterhouse Tom explained what he saw. He saw the drunk Injun Joe in the alley with the treasure. When Tom was running away he stepped on Injun Joe's hand because he was lying asleep on the floor, drunk. Tom grabbed a towel and ran with Huck to the slaughterhouse.

In the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the character Huckleberry Finn takes several risks throughout the story that make him who he is. He and his friend Tom witnessed a murder by Injun Joe, and then heard that very man talk about how he has a box with thousands of dollars in it. Tom and Huck go on a long search for the box, risking their safety and their lives along the way, and claim it as their own. Without the risks that Huck takes, the story wouldn’t have turned out nearly the same way, and they had a major impact on the lives of many in the town.

Tom throughout the story displays many characteristics including the previously discussed, but the most noticeable and important is his adventurous nature. Toms sense of adventure is what drives the story forward more times to count. The audience gets the first taste of Tom's adventurous nature is when Tom accompanies Huck to the graveyard where they encounter the villain of the novel, Injun Joe, killing a man. This demonstrates that Tom's adventures also are the cause for most of the novels conflicts, even if he doesn’t see it. Another adventure, or misadventure, is the trip to the island that Huck, Tom, and Joe take to be “pretend” pirates. This is where Tom, demonstrates his wide imagination (and, as previously

Once Huck ran away to the island and found Jim ran away too and they discovered the dead man, who happened to be Huck’s father, Huck wanted to discuss the dead man but Jim warned him it was bad luck

Huck and Tom decided that they needed to plan out, on how to save Jim. Tom talks about how rescuing Jim is too easy, since his uncle trusts everyone on his farm. He tells Huck that there is more honor in having more difficulties, so he wants to add them himself. Huck is surprised to hear this and questions Tom. Tom then talks about what else they will need on their escape. He wants to do everything the harder way. After talking, Tom decides that Jim should cut off his leg to escape, because that how people in the book did it. Huck refuses to listen to his ideas. Tom also wants to give Jim a shirt, and tell him to make a pencil, and write on a journal on the fabric. He advises that jim used his own blood as ink. Huck still refuses to let Jim do any of what he is saying. The two

Chapter nine of author Mark Twain’s work, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, proves to be a major turning point of the novel. Within the chapter, the main character Tom Sawyer, accompanied by Huckleberry Finn, witness the murder of Dr. Robinson, committed by Injun Joe, when they snuck out late at night to a graveyard, in order to test a superstition. From this point forward, the novel no longer focuses on the childish antics of the youth, and switches focus to the darker topic of the murder of Dr. Robinson. Within this chapter, author Mark Twain does many things with the story. These matters include making the graveyard frightening through descriptive phrases favoring auditory and visual senses, the usage of foreshadowing to prepare the reader

Tom goes with Huckleberry to a graveyard and both of them witness the murder of Dr. Robinson by Injun Joe. The town thinks Tom, Huck, and Joe are dead after the three of them flee town. Tom secretly goes back to town without anyone knowing and listens in on the commotion that is happening in town. Tom decides to return to town during the funeral planned for him and his fellow friends. When tom returns to school he takes the blame for the book that had been damaged by Becky to get back on her good side. In court Tom testifies against Injun Joe, he ends up escaping the court house. When summer comes the boys decide to go hunting for treasure. While hunting for treasure they find Injun Joe who is looking into burying treasure. Huck stays and watches him while Tom goes on a picnic with the school. Tom and Becky go to the mysterious McDougal’s cave while in the cave the two seem to get lost in the cave for a couple of days. Huck finds out that Joe has planned

He noticed that his slave was following him. His slave asked him to follow him into the swamp. Huck was curious and skeptical, but followed his slave anyway. He looked into a clearing that his slave showed him, it was covered in vines, and a man was sleeping in the center. He realized it was his old friend Jim! He quickly woke him up. Jim told Huck that he was came across a house, and waited by it, he knew that Huck was inside. He met with the other slaves, and tried to get them to bring Huck sooner. Jim told Huck that he found their old raft, this surprised Huck, but he was delighted. Huck and Jim talked a little more, then Huck went back

As Huck and Tom plan how to free Jim. Tom wanted to saw the leg off of his bed in order to unchain him but then he says that they need to saw Jim's leg off. Tom continues to come up with more steps in order to free Jim. Tom gets his ideas from the books he has read. Huck steals some items from the Phelps , (shirt, sheets, spoons, candlesticks) which Huck tells Tom he is “ borrowing” . Later Tom and Huck had an idea on digging a hole all the way where Jim is kept in. So Jim can escape through the hole.Tom steal a some of case-knives to begin digging. Tom tells Huck that it will take them at least a few years if they want to do it properly. Later on Tom finally realized it will take too long, so they agree to switch to picks. The next night

Huck getting ready for the escape trip goes down to get food, after noticing Aunt Sally he hides butter under his hat. Aunt Sally , suspicious, leads Huck to a group of farmers where she then notices the melted butter and send him to his room. As Huck, Tom, and Jim are leaving the farmers notice them, thinking they’re thieves and begin to shoot. They make it to the raft relieved until

After encounters with bandits and slave catchers, they save two con-artists that claim to be European royalty. With them at their side, they scam every city they come across, when trying to steal an inheritance that gets thwarted by Huck feeling guilt. In retaliation, the two sell Jim to a farmer, and Huck fixes on getting him out. In the luckiest of all coincidences, he was sold to Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle. Both mistake him for Tom, who supposed to be visiting around then, again very lucky, and Huck rolls with it. When Tom does arrive, Huck let’s him in on the plan and Tom agrees to play along as younger brother Sid.

is one of the slaves of Ms. Watson, the sister of the widow that took

This inspires him to find a way out, which he does. After Tom and Becky are home the caves are sealed, leaving Injun Joe and his treasure locked inside. Injun Joe dies of starvation at the gated entrance of the cave and his treasure is discovered buy Tom and Huck who had found a secret way into the cave. The boys become the richest men in town. Huck decides to break away from the outcast life and moves in with a respectable widow in town.

Tom Sawyer is an adventurous boy who gets into mischief and trouble, but learns from his mistakes. Although in the beginning of the book, he was a troublemaker and was always yelled at by his Aunt Polly, in the end, he became a young man and was more mature than ever.