The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Group

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d2balla
d2balla
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High School - 9th Grade

Why do Tom and Huck go to the graveyard?

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Posted by d2balla on Monday June 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM and tagged with characters, graveyard, huck, tom.

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  1. mahum
    mahum Student
    High School - 10th Grade

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    Posted by mahum on Monday June 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM

  2. dalepowell1962
    dalepowell1962 Teacher
    College - Freshman

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    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 murder Doc Robinson while graverobbing.  Muff Potter, the town drunk is implicated, but fear and a secret oath keep the boys from revealing the truth.

    I've included a link to the full text here.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/tom-sawyer/

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    Posted by dalepowell1962 on Monday June 8, 2009 at 8:20 PM