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kyliekaucher
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What does number 2 mean in chapter 27 of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"? What makes you thnk so?

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Posted by kyliekaucher on Monday September 29, 2008 at 7:09 PM and tagged with chapter 27, meaning, number 2, the adventures of tom sawyer.

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  1. lit24
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    In Ch.26, Tom and his friend Huck go to the haunted house on a Saturday afternoon in search of treasure. As they are searching for hidden treasure Injun Joe now disguised as a "Spaniard" arrives there  with his accomplice. The two boys hide themselves and observe the activities of Injun Joe and his friend. The two thieves  discover a wooden box containing gold coins worth thousands of dollars as they dig up the earth to hide their silver coins and Injun Joe decides to take the gold coins to "his den" and  his companion remarks, "You mean Number One?" to which Injun Joe replies, "No-Number Two-under the cross. The other place is bad-too common." The thieves take the gold coins and depart leaving Tom and Huck to puzzle out what Injun Joe meant by "Number Two."

    The next morning both the boys discuss what Injun Joe meant by "Number Two" and Tom guesses correctly that it is the number of a room in a tavern. Leaving behind Huck, Tom goes in search of room number two in  the taverns of  the town and soon discovers that in one "less ostentatious house, Number 2 was a mystery." Tom learns from the tavern keeper's young son that this particular room number 2 was always kept locked and that he never saw any one go in or come out of that room. Tom is convinced that it is this room which Injun Joe referred to as "Number Two," when the boy tells Tom that last night he had seen a light in that room.

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    Posted by lit24 on Tuesday September 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM