The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Group

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seaqueen395
seaqueen395
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High School - 9th Grade

In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", how does Tom want to spend any treasure they find?

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Posted by seaqueen395 on Monday January 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM and tagged with characters, spend, the adventures of tom sawyer, tom, treasure.

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  1. bocateacher322
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    Tom explains in detail to Huck all the distinctions and subtleties of finding buried treasures—mysterious maps and instructions, proper “haunted” places and where to look for them, and what to do with the immense fortunes. Huck claims he will spend his fortune on eating and enjoyments because his “Pap” will take it all from him when he finds out about it. Tom is more conventional; he will save some of the fortune for a marriage. When the boys discuss how they will spend the money, Huck Finn is the more realistic one: He wants to spend it all immediately on enjoyment because his pap (father) might hear of it and come back and take it all away from him. Tom, however, will spend some of the money on “fun things” but wants to save a large portion of it to use for things such as his marriage, thus indicating a more mature outlook.

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    Posted by bocateacher322 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM