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    In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and his friends go on many exciting or dangerous adventures. Sometimes, Tom takes the role of the leader, but he also follows what his friends do. This role switching of Tom can be found many times throughout the novel. It is understandable, that people would think that Tom is a follower because at times he does what the other boys do. You can see this when the boys are on the island and Huck starts smoking. Tom then asks Huck to teach him how to smoke. Even though

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    “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.” (Twian 1). The very first line of the book alludes to Twain’s other novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which takes places preceding the opening of the novel. “All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes three or four guns—the men had slipped around through the woods and come in from behind without their horses

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    In the novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer IS NOT a good role model because Tom is dishonest and disrespectful First, Tom is dishonest. For example, when Tom goes to Aunt Polly, after tricking many people into(using the human law of action) whitewashing the fence, a punishment by Aunt Polly that he had to do single handedly. Aunt Polly was tricked and Tom got away with it. Like it says: “Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly...[and then Tom asked] Mayn’t I go and play now aunt

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    Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is an exciting and adventurous novel filled with many unique characters. Some are sympathetic and others are not. Tom Sawyer is one the unsympathetic characters because he is dishonest, mischievous, and is always fighting. Tom Sawyer proves his ability of being unsympathetic through his actions and words. When Aunt Polly accuses him of playing hooky, he denies it. Sid then says “Well, now, if I didn’t think you sewed his collar with white thread

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    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

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    Over the course of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, there are a plethora of appearing risk and reward examples. During the book, Tom chooses to escape the hospitality of his Aunt, testify on behalf of a lowly person, and even venture into a cave with no supervision in any case. Conclusively, Tom Sawyer demonstrates a child of all risk or no reward. To start off, Tom had run away from home in order to play pirates with his fellow friends. Risking an extremely high amount of assets, including

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    Tom Sawyer’s Risks and Rewards Risks, rewards, and consequences. They’re everywhere, from a classroom to in books. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, it tells us, well, about the adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom is an average boy. He doesn’t follow the rules, he likes to play, and he is impeccably mischievous. But in a not so average turn of events, Tom is testifying in court, floating down the Mississippi, and hunting for treasure. Tom’s most impactful risks are testifying against Injun

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    The book is called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. It is about a boy named Tom Sawyer who goes on many adventures and encounters a lot of conflicts throughout the book. He becomes friends with multiple colorful characters along the way who influence who he is from start to finish. “In order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain,” this is a quote by Tom Sawyer who is the main character in the story. It means to get someone to take

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    Comparison of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were both characters created by Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer is the main character in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is the main character in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were alike in many ways but they were also very different. One way in which Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are alike is that they are both

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    Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer addresses the fear of the citizens of the newly reborn nation after the war between the states and what changes await for them, in correlation to the children as the fearful citizens and their exposure to society or the adult world as the reborn nation. Children fear of what lies ahead in the adult world as the citizens of the reborn nation fear what exists in a united nation. Twain’s sepulchral imagery conjures up the spine-chilling mood of a child when faced

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