The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, key superstitions include the belief that a dead cat can cure warts, that certain incantations can find lost marbles, and that a howling dog portends death. These...

Huck is carrying a dead cat because he believes it can cure warts. According to superstition, throwing a dead cat at a devil taking away a wicked person's corpse will make the warts follow the cat....

Aunt Polly discovers Tom had been swimming when Sid points out that the thread on Tom's collar is black, not white as Aunt Polly had originally sewn. This indicates that Tom removed his collar to...

The "Adored Unknown" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Becky Thatcher. She is introduced in Chapter 3 when Tom sees her and instantly falls in love, forgetting his previous affection for Amy...

Tom Sawyer attempts to avoid school by feigning illness in chapter 6. He first complains about a sore toe, inspired by a doctor's story about a serious condition, and later about a loose tooth....

Tom Sawyer has a particular aversion to Mondays. This dislike stems from his reluctance to return to the constraints and responsibilities of school after the freedom and adventures of the weekend.

In Chapter 6 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom draws a house and a man to impress Becky Thatcher. Although his drawings are poor, with the house being a "dismal effort" and the man resembling a...

Tom Sawyer wished he was sick to avoid the "slow suffering" of a new school week, which he found particularly miserable after a holiday. He disliked the inactivity and the unkind schoolmaster. Tom...