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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

Tom Sawyer lives in St Petersburg with his Aunt Polly and half-brother, Sid. Tom has to whitewash a fence but tricks his friends into paying him to do the chore for him, he also trades these items to get enough tickets to get a prize bible at Sunday School. Tom falls in love with a girl named Becky Thatcher and gets engaged to her, but she becomes upset when she hears that he was also engaged to a girl named Amy Lawrence. He and his friend

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.

R​The book starts off with Huck Finn telling what happened after the events in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn is now living with the Widow Douglas. Huck Finn describes how he feels lonesome and wants to go somewhere. After some time Huck Finn hears a “me-yow” noise and sneaks out of the house to see Tom Sawyer standing in there. The chapter then ends.

Tom Sawyer was an immature, selfish, troublemaker. He tries to get his way and while others should do work for him. Until he saw the pain of others due to his actions. His mindset had changed and his judgement, which helped him get through the situation where he was lost in a cave with Becky, but luckily he decided to continue to look around instead of staying put and crying. He eventually finds a way out. Twain made a point that in everyone’s childhood they experience an event that creates a different perspective, concerning others as well. He finishes the novel off saying that the Adventures of Tom Sawyer is “ It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story not go further without becoming the history of a man”(Twain, 260). The lesson are figured as a child, where we develop in order to become an

In the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the main character, Tom, plays the part of a mischievous boy. Through the whole novel, Tom continues to take risks over and over again. While most of these are minor, such as tricking other boys into doing his chores, he also takes some major risks near the end of the novel. If he acts too foolishly while taking those risks, he could lose his life. Three of the more major risks are when he and Huck decide to stay hidden during the murder of Dr. Robinson, when Tom decides that he will testify for Muff Potter, and when Tom and Becky decide to explore a cave, only to meet their biggest fear of all, Injun Joe.

Have you ever wanted to run away from home? Well, thats exactly how Tom and his friends were feeling in the book Tom Sawyer. Tom and his friends were about due for a break after seeing someone slyly slaughtered at the grave yard. Then Tom felt terrible after Becky rejected him.

One day after the trial Tom and Huck decide to go treasure hunting to distract them from everything that's going on. The two boys decide to dig around a tree outside of town, but they find nothing. They decide to now go look at the old “haunted house”, and they do end up finding treasure, but the encounter some unexpected people. The two boys encounter Injun Joe and his accomplice, and they take the treasure. The next time Injun Joe and the treasure is seen is when Tom and Becky are trapped in the caves Injun Joe is seen hiding the treasure there.

Love of Becky and Tom with offences and forgiveness (“The fresh-crowned hero fell without firing a shot”), friendship of Tom and his friends (Huck Finn and Joe Harper), excitement that children feel in respect of the adventures (running away from home to the island “They felt like heroes in an instant. Here was a gorgeous triumph…” or getting lost in the cave (“All is lost!”), searching for the treasure and helping to catch Injun Joe, etc), fear and hate (Dr. Robinson death, Injun Joe desire to revenge, etc.) and faith that everything would be all right. All these emotions are experienced by the readers in real life and help them to empathize the main

Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is full of rich scenery, a great plot, a twist ending, and inspiring characters. Even with all those great topics, in my opinion the characters are the most interesting. The protagonist of the book would be Tow Sawyer himself. A lad of twelve who has an attitude fit for a mischiveous boy like him. Tom is always late, he get into trouble often, and is always coniving to get what he wants. However he is a hero to not only the other village boys but to his sweetheart, Becky. He has stood up for Becky, comfoerted her is times of trouble, and has been there for her. Now the antagonists, Injun Joe, is defferent, and yet slightly similar. Injun Joe is not lazy, he always has to be doing something, even if that something is

Although loved by many, Tom Sawyer is the most selfish character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This could be the opinion of many people if it wasn’t for adult characters such as the Duke, the Dauphin, and Pap Finn; Tom Sawyer is a young boy, therefore, his antics are seen as comical and there is less resentment towards his character. The character of Tom Sawyer is extremely egocentric and selfish because he displays blatant disregard for the practical way to make plans in life-or-death situations, doesn’t understand the gravity of murder and robbery, and he will do anything, no matter how crazy or impractical, to make himself seem like a hero.

When Jim is captured and quickly sold for forty dollars to farmer, Silas Phelps, Huck is filled with melancholy from his disappearance. His first reaction is to seek help, and capture Jim from the Phelps plantation. Huck then recruits the help of Tom Sawyer in his journey to capture Jim back, and to his surprise Tom is willing to help him. He does not know if Tom realizes what this gesture means, and the possible repercussions of attempting to steal Jim. Huck arrives at the plantation himself, and Mrs. Phelps thinks that he is her nephew, Tom Sawyer. Huck willingly plays along with the idea in protection of his identity to Mrs. Phelps. After a well devised plan, Huck and Tom are able to steal Jim away from the plantation. Huck's willingness to not only risk his life for Jim’s freedom shows the empathy he had for him.

Becky won’t talk to him and the weight of knowing the truth of the murder hang over his head. He gets Joe Harper and Huck Finn together to run away on an adventure. They run to an island about three miles away from everyone’s homes. They take a rowboat to the island and make a fire. Joe stole some bacon so they eat bacon that night. They talk about being being a pirate gang. Tom decides they won’t steal as pirates though. Everyone starts to worry about the boys and start searching the river for their bodies. The boys sneak home to see if people are actually worried and Tom visits his family and sees they are mourning him. They all feel guilty and decide to come home and everyone rejoices at the boys’ return. This act made by the boys may seem very immature, but I believe that this is simply how a thirteen year old boy is dealing with his depression. He’s gone through a lot and has seen a lot

One of the concepts that stuck out to me with this reading was something that was barely mentioned in this section. The concept of southern hospitality was used in chapter 33. Tom Sawyer goes to the Phelps’s farm and they believe he is a stranger. Silas Phelps has no idea who this boy is, however, she sets a place for him at the dinner table. When Tom tries to refuse his invitation he states that it would not be hospitable of her to let him go. Essentially they are forcing a stranger to stay with them and eat with them. However, if they have another person staying with them, Jim. Jim is trapped in a small hut and is kept in very bad conditions until he can be sent back to slavery. Both Jim and Tom are strangers to the Phelps, however, Jim is

In chapter six Tom meets the new girl whose name is Becky Thatcher. They “get engaged” then Becky finds out that he was “engaged” to Amy Lawrence. Becky did not take it very well so she left him (Twain, 70-71). After he had his heartbroken, Tom ran away and did not return to the afternoon class. He waited for school to be out, then Huckleberry Finn, Joe Harper, and he went to a nearby island to be pirates. When they showed up missing the town put up a search group to look for their bodies in the river. After a few days had passed Tom went to Aunt Polly’s during the night and found out that there was going to be a funeral for Tom, Huck, and Joe. When Tom got back to the island he told the others that they were missed and that there would be a funeral for them. Now that they know that there is going to be a funeral, which was the whole reason they ran away, they were planning a surprise entrance to their funeral. That Saturday Tom, Huck, and Joe made their entrance to their funeral, after they heard all of the nice things people said about them they pop up out of hiding and surprised everyone. In chapters nine and ten Tom and Huck go exploring in the grave at night and they witness Injun Joe’s murder of Dr. Robinson. They swear to each other that they would never say a thing about