Tom Sawyer
This is a sketch of Mark Twain in the charcoal left by a lantern. It is in the cave that Tom and Becky got lost in. And the cave where Injun Joe hid his money.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is about a boy who is very imaginative and brave.
At the beginning of the book, his aunt gives him the chore of painting the fence. He tells the boys in the town that Tom is like 1 in 1,000 because very few people in the world can paint the fence as well, that’s why his aunt chose him. Naturally, every boy in town wants to see if they have the ability. They pay Tom with cool toys like marbles and dead cats tied to a string for admission to paint the fence. By the end of the day, the fence has multiple coats of paint, and his aunt who thinks that Tom did it on his own, is more than thrilled.
At one point Tom decided that he was going to be robber and that he was going to organize a gang of robbers. He told his friends all about they would rob people and kill them, but not the woman, they would hold the woman for ransom. Even though none of them new what ransom was. Tom imagined that he was going to rob some rich people of there elephants. As it turned out they just went to rile up some school children.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are in a cemetery at 12pm one night. When they see people coming, they duck behind a cave stone. They watch as Injun Joe kills a man. A few weeks later, Tom rats out Injun Joe to the court during a trial. Injun Joe escapes while Tom is giving his testimony. Huck and Tom spy on Injun Joe and notice that he has a large sum of money that he is trying to hide. One day, when Tom and his girlfriend, Becky are in a cave, they get lost. Tom comes across Injun Joe who is hiding in the cave. When Tom and Becky finally get out a few days later, they discover that Injun Joe died in the cave. Huck and Tom go back into the cave, and find the money that Injun Joe hid. They split the money in half, and have a handsome sum of $6,000.00 each.
Tom needed to use a lot of imagination to achieve the things that he did throughout the book. Who would ever have thought of turning a chore to paint a fence into a profitable opportunity. And the robbery thing, pure imagination.
Tom was also very brave. He and Huck went into a graveyard at night and witnessed a murder. It was very brave to tell on Injun Joe, and Tom knew that if Injun Joe caught him again he would surely kill him.
This satire by mark twain makes you laugh at the imagination a kid can have.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics): Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye: Books
