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        <title><![CDATA[What is a character sketch of Tom Sawyer?
 
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        <description><![CDATA[What is a character sketch of Tom Sawyer?
 
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        <title><![CDATA[In the opening chapter of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Aunt Polly,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the opening chapter of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Aunt Polly, described as “the elderly woman” is looking for Tom.  She finds him after he sneaks up behind her.  He has been hiding in the closet, and his face is covered with jam.  She tells Tom that she is going to switch him, but he distracts her and takes off over the fence. 
Aunt Polly is sure that Tom will skip school.  She hates to punish him on Saturday when on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:00:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 1 what does Sid do to give Tom away? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 1 what does Sid do to give Tom away? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:02:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Tom Sawyer", it was 12,000 dollars. I believe they split the money...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Tom Sawyer", it was 12,000 dollars. I believe they split the money since in "Huck Finn", Huck says he got 6,000 dollars. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:23:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe that that event happens in "Huck Finn" and not "Tom Sawyer."...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/tom-sawyer/group/discuss/significance-tom-sawyers-escapades-45991#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I believe that that event happens in "Huck Finn" and not "Tom Sawyer." It demonstrates that Tom represents the ideals and romantic notions of European customs, while Huck represents, the pragmatic, practical side of early EAmerican life. Tom's approach to cleaning the picket fence by getting others to whitewash the fence flies in the nature of Franklin's attitude about a good day's work. There are so many others but by running counter to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:20:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[enotes-user,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an iconic American...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/tom-sawyer/q-and-a/what-theme-adventures-tom-sawyer-88569</link>
        <description><![CDATA[enotes-user,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an iconic American romance. Tom Sawyer is the eternal child, and as such he illustrates an obsessive trait of both Mark Twain and American culture. Tom's behavior belongs in a line of American figures who either seek shelter in childhood or refuse the responsibilities of adult life: Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Hemingway's Nick Adams, Faulkner's Ike McCaslin, and Salinger's Holden Caulfield.
Tom the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:15:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the heart of this whimsical novel is the theme of friendship.  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the heart of this whimsical novel is the theme of friendship.  The antics of the friends Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are known to many Americans who have not even read this novel.  Together Tom and Huck create an exciting, imaginative world.  Many readers long remember the scene in which Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing the picket fence, Injun Joe leaping through the window of the courhouse after Tom names him as Dr. Robinson's...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:39:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:36:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn tells Tom the cure for curing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn tells Tom the cure for curing warts and that is what takes them to the graveyard.  Hucks states, ""Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!"(Twain).
The catch is that Tom and Huck have to swing a dead cat over a freshly buried dead man said to be evil and state the above encantation.  So in the light of a full moon, Tom and Huck go to the graveyard and see Injun Joe...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:20:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[to explore]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/tom-sawyer/q-and-a/why-do-tom-huck-go-graveyard-88105</link>
        <description><![CDATA[to explore]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:00:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do Tom and Huck go to the graveyard?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why do Tom and Huck go to the graveyard?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:14:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter 5, the narrator states,

There comes a time in every rightly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter 5, the narrator states,

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure (175).

This is the desire that strikes Tom.  What will he do when he finds buried treasure?  He plans to buy a  drum, a sword, a red necktie, and a dog. And he plans to get married, too.
This seems to be a desire that strikes most children at one time or another. Do you...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:10:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 25 of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", what desire came to Tom?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 25 of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", what desire came to Tom?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:13:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[During recess, Tom and Becky get engaged.
Tom had actually only just met...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[During recess, Tom and Becky get engaged.
Tom had actually only just met Becky that morning during classes.  Becky had been interested in what Tom had been drawing, and Tom had offered to teach her how to draw if she would meet him during the lunch recess.  Becky agrees, and the two manage to get together back at the school without anyone else knowing.  Tom teaches Becky how to draw a house, and then "the two (fall) to talking", and share a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:33:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What did Tom and Becky do during recess in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What did Tom and Becky do during recess in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:22:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Senator who comes to town is "Mr. Benton, an actual United States...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/tom-sawyer/q-and-a/who-was-senator-who-comes-town-84639</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Senator who comes to town is "Mr. Benton, an actual United States senator".  Thomas Hart Benton is indeed an historical figure, the first United States Senator from the state of Missouri.
Senator Benton is briefly mentioned in Chapter 22, which recounts the boredom of a long summer for Tom.  Abandoned by Becky Thatcher, who is spending the season at her Constantinople home with her parents, and tormented by "the dreadful secret of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:03:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is the senator who comes to town in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is the senator who comes to town in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:48:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The primary conflict in the novel is the individual versus society,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The primary conflict in the novel is the individual versus society, which is played out in Tom's childish rebellions against Aunt Polly, school, and local approval. The novel tells the story of Tom's efforts to live out his individual dreams and preferences regardless of what Aunt Polly and the rest of polite society have to say about it.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:17:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By hokey means cheesey and geeminy means holy cow.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[By hokey means cheesey and geeminy means holy cow.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 07:29:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the conflict in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the conflict in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 13:35:47 PST</pubDate>
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