What Would You Do If You Were Forced Into Engagement In Tom Sawyer

He was always playing sports with his brother, and with his dad. At his elementary school he was always being a leader. Especially at indoor recess.

Tom continued to cheat on his wife even when she knew about his mistress. It had gotten

that he has a woman in New York. “Tom’s got some woman in New York,

doesn’t love him that she is in love with him. That she never loved Tom.

He'd never forget what she'd said to him when he was dying, hanging onto her call to battle, her words of endearment just before falling prey to nightmare. She'd pleaded for him to live not just for the kingdom, but also for her. He was her strength she'd confessed when she thought he was asleep, and he'd held fast to that, she being a tether that kept him from succumbing to the dark. Perchance, she had some feelings for him being that came after Tom's

relieving stress in the tub. Alison found his wet underwear under the car seat the next day. He

Tom didn 't have a great desire to meet the young lady yet the topic lead him to

During dinner, Tom discusses a book he had read and leaves to take a phone call in which Daisy follows him. Alone at the table with Nick, Jordan informs him of Tom’s mistress in New York.

Tom will do anything for her. One way he proves his maturity towards her is by taking the blame for something he did not do. Becky rips the schoolmaster’s book, and Tom took her punishment. Tom gets whipped and an after-school detention. Tom yelled “I done it!”(136).

Tom next attempts to force Chris to tell him the gender of their child, but she’s insisted on not knowing it in advance. The family realizes

Mark Twain the writer of Tom Sawyer said this quote “change is the handmaiden nature to do her miracles with”. I changed and so did Tom Sawyer. We both changed in similar ways and not so similar ways but we both changed for the better.

later because he was just trying to fit in to the group when he was just a young boy.

Becky Thatcher served as a difficult person to analyze. As a director, I got to decide whether she was in control or not, and I think my decisions were not unified, making the action even less believable. Initially, Becky was timid and innocent to Tom’s intentions, and then she became more manipulative and knowledgeable. In a sense, I think it was because I took the easy way out. When I talked to my actress about actually crying at the end, she told me she didn’t think she could, so I dropped it and chose to have her fake cry; however, choosing to have her fake cry completely changed the scene. It was a cop-out. I never saw Becky as manipulative or aware that Tom had loved another girl—she was a dreamer: sweet and innocent. She didn’t even know what an engagement meant!

When Tom and Becky were in an argument, Becky noticed that Tom was purposefully flirting with Amy Lawrence (his previous crush). She decided that two could play the game. She attempted this by spending time with Alfred Temple—a boy in their class. When Tom finally left, flirting with Amy, Becky lost all patience. She shrugged off Alfred and fled. Alfred stood there, processing this scene, wondering what he did wrong. Then it hit him. Becky simply manipulated him. She used him like a pawn in her little game of jealousy. He was so angered at this burning truth that he took the jet black ink and poured it in Tom’s spelling book. Becky saw this

people, so much so that she qualifies it by adding the reason for the behavior is that Tom, the