The Adventures of Tom Sawyer :: essays research papers

The Adventures of tom Sawyer, by Mark bitstock B. This type of book is realistic fiction. C. The maincharacter is Thomas Sawyer, a twelve year old boy, whoseparents are dead. tom lives with his aunt, Polly. Tom is workeither making trouble or think ofing up novel schemes. An early(a)character is Huckelberry Finn, hated by all mothers andloved by all children. Tom is champs with Huck and theyshare many adventures together. Becky Thatcher, thedaughter of a judge, who likes Tom but sometimes fightswith him. Injun Joe is an indian who sweep aways someone namedDr. Robinson and makes everyone conceive that the real killeris a man named Muff Potter. Mr. Potter, a straitlaced man, helpsTom and Huck to fish and fly kites. D. This story takesplace in St. Petersburg, Missouri, in the mid-1800s. E. Themain problem in this story is the many shipway which Tom triesto avoid Injun Joe because as a witness to the impinge on of Dr.Robinson, Injun Joe is trying to kill Tom. Poor Tom also ha sto visual modality with being punished on a Satur twenty-four hour period when he could be come out playing. The last problem is how Becky and Tom ordainescape from a cave. II. Tom, Sid, Tom fractional brother, andToms aunt Polly were sitting down at the table eatingsupper. Aunt Polly asked Tom questions hinting that shesuspected him of playing hooky and going swimming kindaof going to school. Aunt Polly gave up but then Sid pointedout that Tom had a different color thread than the one AuntPolly fasten on Toms collar. Toms punishment was towhitewash the fence, but Tom wanted to go out and play.Tom used reverse psychology to make his friends think thatwhitewashing was an honor and they even gave him trinketsfor the honor of whitewashing the fence. At school, Tommeets a clean girl, Becky Thatcher, daughter of JudgeThatcher. Becky and Tom both like each other but Tommentioned that he was engaged to Amy, and Becky hatedhim for it. Tom and his friend Huck go to the cemetery witha dead cat, a so-called wart cure. While at the cemeterythey see Injun Joe kill Dr. Robinson while blaming MuffPotter. Both Tom and Huck swear to themselves that theywill not say a thing about the murder. One day when lookingfor treasures in a haunted house, Tom and Huck put one acrossInjun Joe talking with another man about perplexing treasures.Tom and Huck decide to track the men in order to find thetreasures which the men hide in "the number 2".