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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is an innocent who grows into greater maturity as his story progresses. We don't know exactly how old Tom is, but he seems to be about 11, old enough to develop a crush on Becky...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
An example of a lie Tom Sawyer told is when he told his aunt that he did not play hooky and go swimming. At the beginning of the book, we are introduced to the playfully devious Tom with a classic...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
At Sunday School, the children are awarded tickets every time they show they have memorized a Bible verse. Those who accumulate tickets equaling 2000 verses are awarded a coveted Dore Bible as a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom testified against Joe in court, so Tom is terrified that Joe will try to kill him. Tom and Becky run in to Joe, and Joe chases them into the cave. The question is, does Joe really want to...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas offers to adopt Huck after thier ordeal with Injun Joe. She feels sorry for him and decides that she will civilize the boy. Huck had also saved her from being killed by Injun Joe,...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Injun Joe finds it quite easy to lie about the murder of the doctor. He is first introduced as one of three bandits planning on robbing a corpse of its wealth and possessions. Unfortunately, the...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The life of a pirate seems so exciting to Tom, Huck, and Joe Harper. Tom paints a romanticized picture of life on the high seas for those who sail under the skull and crossbones. Pirates get to...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom is full of superstitious rituals that revolve around marbles. First, he thinks that: If you buried a marble with certain necessary incantations, and left it alone a fortnight, and then opened...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The whole town of St. Petersburg is in mourning over the deaths of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Joe Harper. Only they're not actually dead; they ran away to become pirates, but as they...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jim was reluctant in letting Tom take away the tin pail because Tom was attempting to swap chores with Jim. He tells Jim that he will take the pail to fetch water for Jim as well as give him a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom shouted "look behind you" at his aunt Polly in the moments just before she was going to whip him with a switch for eating jam that he was told to leave alone. He yells that she should look...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The answer to this question can be found in the very first paragraph of chapter 6. Tom Sawyer really does not like Mondays. Readers are told that he finds the day "miserable." The reason for Tom's...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer first thinks of becoming a pirate in chapter VIII, when he contemplates running away from St. Petersburg. He considers several other professions, such as clown and soldier, but finally...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly punishes Tom by forcing him to whitewash a fence on a Saturday morning when he had planned to have fun. He is feeling hopeless and despondent. He thinks sorrowfully of all the pleasures...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom is a challenge for cousin Mary to get ready for Sunday School, but she rises to it. First, he hasn't memorized his Bible verse from the Sermon on the Mount. Mary says she will have a nice...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In chapter 6 of Tom Sawyer, the titular Tom comes across the town ne’er-do-well, Huckleberry Finn. Huck is carrying a dead cat with him on the way to the graveyard. The superstition is that dead...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is the main character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and his goals shift throughout the book. The difficulty of answering this question is that Tom Sawyer has no over-arching...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sneaking out at night to the graveyard, Tom and Huck Finn are horrified when they witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Muff Potter is also there, and Injun Joe uses Potter's knife to commit the...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly punishes Tom by making him whitewash a picket fence that runs next to the sidewalk. It's a beautiful Saturday morning, and Tom longs to be out having fun, as he had planned to do on his...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
There are are a number of themes present in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. If you need to focus on just one main theme, I would suggest examining the idea of the unbridled joys and innocence of...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
For Tom Sawyer, the difference between work and play is simple: play is fun, and work isn't. Tom is about as work-shy as it gets, whether it's in relation to school-work or chores around the house....
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The opening of the story tells us that Tom Sawyer is a bit of a troublemaker. We can reasonably infer this because, in this scene, the young lad is hiding from his Aunt Polly in a closet with jam...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ben Rogers is an adventurous, imaginative, outgoing boy like Tom Sawyer and therefore a rival. When Tom has to whitewash his aunt's fence as a punishment from Aunt Polly instead of playing as he...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In the final chapter of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck are both rich. Their windfall is invested at 6% interest by the judge and the widow, meaning that Each lad had an income, now,...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has a third-person omniscient narrator. Although this narrator closely follows the protagonist, his views are clearly his own, and he sometimes has a different...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer finds the title character being punished for skipping school. He is forced to paint thirty yards of a fence. Tom would clearly rather be out on one of his...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The main "less respectable" member of society featured in the book is Huck Finn. The son of a violent, outcast drunk, Huck lives by his wits and does what he wants. He wears ragged, cast-off adult...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a bit of a scamp, a young boy who's always getting into some kind of trouble or other. Whether it's playing hooky to go swimming or raiding the pantry, Tom's usually up to no good,...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
An omniscient third-person narrator tells the story of Tom Sawyer. This is the point of view of an adult looking back with fondness at a young boy's world. We know the narration is third person...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
At the beginning of the story, Tom Sawyer's a mischievous, fun-loving scamp who doesn't take life too seriously. For Tom, life is an adventure, something to be enjoyed to the full. Possessed with a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The main conflict is the clash between Tom's imaginative vision of the world and the adult world as it really is.Tom's elaborate, creative adventures (pirates, treasure hunters, robbers) and pranks...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The mischievous Tom Sawyer is extremely clever. Here are three instances of his cleverness and ingenuity in tricking others: In Chapter 2, Tom is made to whitewash the fence. As he looks over the...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Some of Tom Sawyer's negative traits are his mischievousness, ability to manipulate others, and his selfishness. For example, in the famous whitewashing scene, Tom manipulates the other boys into...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In Chapter 2 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (entitled "Strong Temptations"), Tom is living with his Aunt Polly in a town in Missouri. His aunt assigns Tom the task of whitewashing the fence for...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
There are a number of the different types of conflicts in the novel. Man vs. Man: Tom has adversarial relationships with a number of different characters throughout the novel. The big man vs. man...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In the opening chapter, Aunt Polly is trying to get hold of Tom. But first, she has to get her spectacles on, and then she mistakenly pokes under the bed before finding Tom hiding in a closet. She...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In chapter nine, as the two boys realize other people are in the dark graveyard at night, it is Huck Finn who appears more afraid of this fact than Tom Sawyer. Their dialogue goes as follows: “Oh,...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom feels sorry for Aunt Polly as Aunt Polly believes him dead after he runs away. She has always chastised him for his bad behaviour but she genuinely cares about him. Tom steals home secretly for...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sid is Tom's brother. He is the good child who is a foil to Tom's ever-energetic mischief-making. Aunt Polly can rely on Sid to behave, go to school, and not make trouble in church. Tom often...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The exposition is the part of a story where background information on the characters and situations is presented. Although the plot structure of "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a little...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom decides he wants to dig for a buried treasure left behind by pirates. He looks for a companion. When some of his first choices fail him, he approaches Huck. Huck, who is always up for an...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In Mark Twain’s novel, Tom Sawyer stands out for being no fan of rules, schedules, or authority. If a genie came into his life, one wish he might make would be to have school abolished, or at least...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The main character is Tom Sawyer. He is a young hooligan from a Southern town in the 19th century. In this chapter, he attempts to get out of whitewashing (painting) the fence by convincing...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
While Tom Sawyer’s hometown of St. Petersburg is fictional, many elements of Mark Twain’s childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, were incorporated into the story. Note that Mark Twain is a pen name, and...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In chapter 11, we are told that "a gory knife had been found close to the murdered man, and it had been recognized by somebody as belonging to Muff Potter." This then is the principal reason as to...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In chapter 6 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tom meets up with Huckleberry Finn on his way to school. They talk about different ways to get rid of warts. Huckleberry is carrying a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a young, upstanding boy with a vivid imagination and a heart of gold. We learn about Tom thoroughly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A smart young lad, Tom is no stranger to...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Characterization is the art of bringing characters on the page to life of which Mark Twain is truly a master. Characters can be flat, or one-dimensional, round in which the reader knows what truly...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I wonder if you might be talking about the part in Chapter 25 when Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are digging for buried treasure. They are wondering why they can't find any and they come up with a few...
