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Introduction
Author: Mark Twain
Book name: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Genre: Children’s literature, satire, bildungsroman
Language: English
About Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who lived from November30, 1835 to April21, 1910.
He was labeled "the father of American
literature" by William Faulkner and hailed as "the finest humorist
the United States has produced”. His works
include Tom Sawyer's Adventures (1876) and its sequel Huckleberry Finn's
Adventures (1884), the latter labeled as "The Great American Novel."
About
book
Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about a little child growing up beside the Mississippi River. It takes place in the 1840s in St. Petersburg, Missouri, is modeled on Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri.
Tom Sawyer has several adventures throughout the novel,
most of which he has with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Despite being a commercial failure at
the time, the book became Twain's best-selling work throughout his lifetime.
Book
Summary
Tom Sawyer, an imaginative and mischievous child, lives with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom is forced to paint the fence as punishment on Saturday after skipping school on Friday and dirtying his clothing in a fight. Tom is initially dissatisfied at having to forego his day off.
However, he quickly persuades his
friends to give him small treasures in exchange for the opportunity to complete
his task. He exchanges these valuables
for tickets given out in Sunday school for remembering Bible passages, which he
then redeems for a Bible. When he incorrectly
responds that the first two disciples were David and Goliath in response to a
question to demonstrate his knowledge, he loses a lot of his pride.
Tom falls for Becky Thatcher, a newcomer to town, and convinces her to get "engaged" to him. When she discovers that Tom had previously been "engaged" to a girl called Amy Lawrence, their relationship crumbles. Tom follows Huckleberry Finn, the son of the local alcoholic, to the graveyard late at night to try out a "cure" for warts, shortly after being rejected by Becky.
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They witness the murder of
young Dr. Robinson by Native-American "half-breed" Injun Joe at the
cemetery. Tom and Huck flee, swearing a
blood oath not to tell anybody about what they've witnessed. Injun Joe accuses his drunken friend, Muff Potter, of
the crime. When Potter is wrongly
detained, Tom's anxiety and guilt rise.
Tom, Huck, and Tom's friend Joe Harper flee to an island to become pirates. The boys become aware that the town is sounding the river for their bodies while frolicking around and enjoying their newfound freedom. Tom returns home late one night to watch the chaos. Tom is struck by the thought of surprise everyone at his burial after a brief moment of regret for his loved ones' suffering. Tom returns home late one night to watch the chaos.
Tom is struck by the thought of surprise everyone at his burial after a brief moment of regret for his loved ones' suffering. Joe and Huck are persuaded to follow suit. Their return is joyfully received, and they immediately become the envy and admiration of their classmates.
Back at school, Tom earns Becky's trust by accepting
responsibility for a damaged book. The
trial of Muff Potter begins soon after, and Tom, overcome with guilt, testifies
against Injun Joe. Potter is
found not guilty, but Injun Joe escapes by a window.
Summer approaches, and Tom and Huck go ghost hunting at a haunted mansion in search of buried treasure. They hear a disturbance below after heading upstairs. They observe Injun Joe enter the house disguised as a deaf and dumb Spaniard through holes in the floor. He and his buddy, an untidy guy, intend to bury their own stolen treasure.
Tom and Huck wriggle with pleasure from their hiding
place at the thought of digging it up. Injun
Joe and his buddy, by a strange chance, discover a hidden chest of gold. They grow suspicious of Tom and Huck's hiding place
when they notice their tools, and instead of reburying the treasure, they take
it away.
Every night, Huck continues to follow Injun Joe in the
hopes of snagging the gold. Meanwhile,
Tom, Becky, and their classmates head to McDougal's Cave for a picnic. Huck
observes Injun Joe and his partner stealing a package the same night. He pursues them and overhears their plot to kill Widow
Douglas, a nice St. Petersburg citizen. Huck
avoids the violence by fleeing for aid and becomes an anonymous hero.
Tom and Becky become lost in the cave and are not
discovered until the next morning. The
town's men start looking for them but to no effect. When
Tom and Becky run out of food and candles, they start to feel weak. When Tom, seeking a way out of the cave, runs into
Injun Joe, who is using the cave as hiding, the situation becomes even more
terrifying. Tom eventually discovers a way
out, just as the searchers are about to give up. The
city celebrates, and Judge Thatcher, Becky's father, secures the cave. Injun Joe, who is confined inside, dies of starvation.
Tom brings Huck to the cave a week later, when they
discover the box of gold, the earnings of which are invested for them. When Huck seeks to flee civilized life, Tom tells him
that if he returns to the widow, he would be allowed to join Tom's robber gang. Huck reluctantly agrees.
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