...Tom Sawyer has a lot of information, one idea I have found very interesting is how Tom and becky are in an emotional fight the entire book. It started when Tom said he was engaged to Amy. Becky was very hurt from this and got mad at Tom. The last time in the book was when she did not tell the school master about when Alfred purposely put ink on toms book. Then it all stop when Nobel tom takes all of the blame that would have got Amy a whipping. In the adventures of Tom Sawyer, the main character Tom Sawyer changes throughout the book. Like Tom Sawyer I have also changed academically, socially and emotionally. Tom Sawyer has changed fanomanaly from the beginning of the book. He has changed in many ways. Here is one way he has changed...
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...People change for two main reasons: their minds have open or there hearts have been broken. Tom has changed in many ways throughout the novel. I to have changed in many ways throughout my 7th grade year. Tom Sawyer and I have changed like leaves change every season. Throughout this novel Tom Sawyer has changed in many ways. One way he has changed is in the beginning of the novel Tom would trick kids into doing his chores. One example is “say Jim, i'll fetch the water if you'll whitewash some.” Then now at the end of the novel tom would actually do things on his own. One example is when Tom stood up in front of the class and said “I done it” even when he didn't do anything. I have also changed, one way is I have changed...
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...This school year had 171 days in it. 39 weeks. 9 months. Throughout this time, I have changed emotionally and socially. We read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and witnessed Tom grow up. Over the course of this school year, I have grown too academically, emotionally, and socially. First, this classic novel shows Tom’s Personality growth and part of his childhood. In the beginning, Tom is a little reckless and naïve. By the end, he had a strong sense of what is wrong and right, along with good moral lessons. For example, when Tom witnessed the graveyard murder, he had lost sleep, felt horrible, and feared for his life. But later, he revealed who the true killer was. He became the hero of the town, and relieved himself of some stress. Throughout the year, I have grown academics. In September, my favorite class was science. It still is, but instead of chemistry, geology is my favorite type of science. Geology has always been my favorite subject to learn about. When I was little, my mom would take me to the park. Instead...
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...Mark Twain’s widely known and appreciated novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follow countless boyhood adventures between the rambunctious young boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. While Twain’s novels depict long playful summer days spent in the sun, his work is far from children’s literature. Twain’s novels include dark adult themes such as death, ignorance, physical punishment, deceit and most prominently, racism. Twain modeled both novels based on his own life experiences growing up along the Mississippi River (Frost), hoping to mirror how one's surroundings influence their character development, furthermore shaping who they will become. To do so, Twain creates a world of struggle for his protagonists,...
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...development. One such foil character is Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom is a character that represents society along with its ideals and tendencies. Huck changes from a character that is only slightly different than the general population to someone who is tolerant and mature. Twain deliberately uses Tom’s personality to accentuate the change Huck has undergone throughout the story. Experience: As far as experiences go, Huck had seen and done far more than Tom, even at the beginning. His father, an abusive alcoholic, forced Huck out of his innocence at a young age. He was exposed to cruelty and rage that many people never see, which he...
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...The Antics of Tom Sawyer In Mark Twain’s timeless classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he shows how in Tom’s little town one can be adventurous, smart, and loving. In the novel Twain does not make his character, Tom, adventurous, smart, and loving; he gives instances for Tom to show these traits to the reader and a plethora of such instances is given. These instances are for the most part very noticeable to an observant reader, but with regards to a few situations it takes a critical eye to notice how Twain may change the way he writes while Tom is in front of an important character. Tom is a typical teenage boy, but when he goes on his “adventures” he completely changes his view on the world he lives in. For example, when Tom runs away with Joe Harper and Huck Finn, the boys run away to pretend to be pirates. Tom completely immerses himself into his newfound lifestyle, “For a few days they are happy on the island and learn from Huck how to smoke and swear. They are beginning to get homesick when they hear a cannon being fired over the river from a steamboat. Then the boys realize that the townspeople are searching for their bodies.” (Batzer 84). After the townspeople give up on looking for the boys, Tom goes back...
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...Imagine you are a parent, your eight year old son come back from school with the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he had been waiting for it for a week, until somebody finally returned it from the library. So you start reading it with him, you think that the book is fine, until your start seeing racist words, why does your eight year old child have this book in his hands, why is it within his reach? Book banning in schools has recently became a hot topic, some people think that some books should be censored or removed from schools. We do not want children reading books that have violence and swearing in them. Some books have violence and inappropriate content in them, others contain profanity and racism, a child's impressionable mind should not be exposed to stuff like that. Book banning should be allowed in schools to protect children from inappropriate content. Children's minds can be effected very easily, so why can they read books...
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...is the main character, and the narrator of the book. After a while of Huck traveling, he finds his friend Tom Sawyer. Along with Tom, Huck is the one that ends up saving Jim, the black slave who escaped with Huck. Huck and Tom never really agreed on much throughout the story. One of the two always thought that they had the better idea. Huck’s character changes throughout the book as he matures, whereas Tom’s character stays the same as a rebellious boy, even though it is obvious that they are similar. Huckleberry Finn's character is very different from Tom Sawyer, as far as maturity levels. Huck always tried to make the right decision in every situation....
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...able to view the world differently than all the adults around him. His experiences throughout his adventures down the Mississippi river force him to question the things society has taught him. During this adventure, he tends to care more about the opinion of others than his own, however his opinion changes in time. Huck’s biggest test of morality is his relationship with Jim, the escaped slave of Ms. Watson. Huck has always been taught that slaves and those of color are below him just because he is white. This is an internal moral struggle for Huck, because he knows to society he is “wrong,” but to him their friendship makes it “right.” The concept of being wrong in the eyes of society and making it right goes beyond just Huck and Jim’s bond. The relationship that Jim and Huck develop over the course of the story is important because the experiences that they share teach Huck to think for himself, allowing him to trust his morals. Huck has grown up in an environment in which Jim is nothing more than the slave of Ms. Watson. From the beginning of the story Jim is not viewed as an actual human, but “property”. Huck has been taught that praying makes you a good person, and that how you act on earth determines where you go after. Ms. Watson tells Huck all about the “bad place” and the only thing he has to say is “I wished I was there.” (5) Every time Huck Finn sees a...
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...was to just depict the life of individuals along the Mississippi river before the civil war or was he trying to portray a difficult time in American history, and reveal how society in that time contradicted themselves in terms of their own personal morale? Surely, today I would not recommend reading the book to put my child to sleep at night, but I would not band the privilege of allowing other at certain grade levels to analyze Mark Twain’s story, and try to find what his main intentions were. My position would be not to band the novel and to change the words, but to use the book to reference a land mark in American history for older student to learn. In depth, the book has a bigger meaning and valuable lesson to learn about history, life, humanity, morale, society, law system, race and religion. The novel was published in England in December 1884 and takes place forty to fifty years ago from when it was published. Evidently, this took place well before the civil war period and what was mostly disturbingly common in society during this era was slavery. The main characters in the Mark Twain’s novel are Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn is a thirteen year old boy who clearly came from a poor upbringing, with no education unlike his friend Tom Sawyer. He is also the narrator of the story. Tom sawyer is the same age as Huck, and is his best friend who leads Huck into a load of trouble. Jim is a runaway slave...
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...meets along the way. Huckleberry Finn was brought up in an interesting household. His father was rarely ever home and if he was, he was drunk, his mother had passed away so Huck had no one to really look out for him or take care of him. Huckleberry had the life that many teenagers dream of, no parents to watch you or tell you what to do, but when Huckleberry finds himself in the care of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson things start to drastically change. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are two relatively old women and think that raising a child means turning him into an adult. In order for Huckleberry to become a young man, he was required to attend school, religion was forced upon him, and a behavior that was highly unlike Huck became what was expected of him by the older ladies. Not to long after moving in, Huckleberry ran away. When he finally came home he respected the ladies wishes and did what they wanted, but was never happy with it. When Tom Sawyer enters the picture, he is the immediate apple of Huckleberry's eye. Huckleberry sees Tom as the person that he used to be and was envious of Tom's life. Huckleberry saw freedom and adventure in this young man and soon became very close friends with him. Huck then joins Tom's little "group" to feel that sense of belonging and adventure that he misses out on due to living with the two older ladies. Soon enough Huck realizes that all of Tom's stories are a little exagerated and that...
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...meets along the way. Huckleberry Finn was brought up in an interesting household. His father was rarely ever home and if he was, he was drunk, his mother had passed away so Huck had no one to really look out for him or take care of him. Huckleberry had the life that many teenagers dream of, no parents to watch you or tell you what to do, but when Huckleberry finds himself in the care of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson things start to drastically change. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are two relatively old women and think that raising a child means turning him into an adult. In order for Huckleberry to become a young man, he was required to attend school, religion was forced upon him, and a behavior that was highly unlike Huck became what was expected of him by the older ladies. Not to long after moving in, Huckleberry ran away. When he finally came home he respected the ladies wishes and did what they wanted, but was never happy with it. When Tom Sawyer enters the picture, he is the immediate apple of Huckleberry's eye. Huckleberry sees Tom as the person that he used to be and was envious of Tom's life. Huckleberry saw freedom and adventure in this young man and soon became very close friends with him. Huck then joins Tom's little "group" to feel that sense of belonging and adventure that he misses out on due to living with the two older ladies. Soon enough Huck realizes that all of Tom's stories are a little exagerated and that...
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...You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and putit out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. The widow she cried over me, and called...
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...My friend, Mark Twain What are the characteristics of a good friend? A good friend is someone that is giving, not only with physical possessions but with their intellect as well. Someone that will loan you money without expecting to be repaid, let you borrow their clothes, and give you good advice. A true friend is honest and loyal. They will protect your secrets and “tell it like it is.” They will not mislead you because they have your best interests in mind. A real friend is a person who accepts you as you are. They know you are not perfect, because no one is. Flaws, imperfections and fears, are what make friendships such a beautiful thing, and these things are one of the many reasons why they love you. They aren’t expecting you to change and are understanding when you make mistakes. They are also always there for you, through the best and worst times in your life. Your true friends will be there by your side on the most boring of afternoons, and will be the first to come to your aid in the event of a disaster or in times of crisis. Mark Twain is a man that possessed many of the characteristics of a true friend. Through his books, articles, movies and personal friends you can get an insight as to what he was like in real life. Some people might argue you that his sarcasm and tenacity are not the makings of a true friend rather than a trouble maker. While others believe that those vary same characteristics are some of the important things that make up a friend. I believe...
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...THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN ~ Study Questions ANSWERS Chapter 1-11 Ch 1 1. How did THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER end? Tom and Huck found ($6,000 each) from robbers 2. With whom did Huckleberry (Huck) live? Widow Douglas 3. What is Twain satirizing in Huck’s attitude toward Moses? Religion-“faith” wisdom from dead people 4. Who is Miss Watson? Widow Douglas’s sister 5. What did Huck like to do that the Widow Douglas would not allow? Smoke 6. Why did Huck decide to go back and live with the Widow Douglas after he ran away? Tom Sawyer said he’d start a band of robbers 7. What happened when Huck went to bed that demonstrated his superstitious beliefs? He flicked spider-landed in candle and burned – He then turned around 3 times bent and tied lock of hair Ch 2 1. Who is Jim? Miss Watson’s slave 2. For whom does Jim work? Miss Watson 3. How did Jim explain about how his hat got on the tree limb? Witches 4. Where do the boys meet for their secret meetings? Cave/hole in hill covered by bushes 5. What were the two requirements to join the gang? Every boy stick with band –never tell any secret 6. From where did Tom get the idea for the robber’s oath? His head, pirate-books and robber books 7. What was the punishment for breaking the oath? Kill families of boys who broke the oath 8. What problem did the boys realize that Huck would have concerning the punishment for a broken oath? His father was...
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