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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is written by ‘Mark Twain’ Mark twain is one of the most popular American writer of the nineteenth century. His family was poor. Mark Twain left school at the age of thirteen to work as a printer. In his leisure time, he wrote stories for a local newspaper. At the age of twenty, he began to work on a boat which sailed up and down the Mississippi river. It was here that he met the characters he describes in his book. Many of his stories are about his journey on the Mississippi.
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is the best known of his books. It describes the boyhood of Tom Sawyer, an orphan, who lives with his kind aunt Polly. Tom is a cheerful, honest, lively boy. His adventures have delighted boys and girls all over the world.
Summary [theme] :-
About two decades before the civil war, Tom Sawyer is living in St. Petersburg a small Missouri village on the Mississippi river. Tom’s Mother is dead and he lives with his aunt Polly. Whose anxious efforts to rear the youngster firmly are hampered by her tender –hearted affection for the boy other members of the household are Tom’s gentle cousin Mary and his deceitful half brother. Sidney. Tom is a keen-mined boy of normal impulses. He groans under the restrictions of school, from which he often flees with an easy conscience to glory in the freedom of the half brother and has distaste for boys who are representative of big city ways or standards of model deportment. In his frequent encounters with the adult word, Tom commonly outwits his advisories.
For choosing to go a swimming when was supposed to be in School, Tom is sentenced by aunt Polly to spend Saturday whitewashing along, high board fence- by means of some shrew a applied psychology. Tom induces various other boys to do the work-and to pay for the privilege.
After a game of war with his friend Joe Harper, Tom passes the Thatcher residence and, at first night, falls in love with pretty Becky. When he lingers about her house later in the day. His ardor is dampened by a sudden deluge of water.
In Sunday school the next day, Tom receives a Bible upon presenting the tickets that would be a warded for memorizing 2,000 verses. Only Tom has acquired the tickets by bartering and his ignorance of scripture is mercilessly exposed. In church, the proceedings are enlivened when Tom’s pinch bug gets away from him and stirs up a wandering dog.
On Monday Tom’s faked illness fails to save him from school. On the way to that place of torture, Tom tarries with Huckleberry Finn, and they make plans to take a dead cat to the cemetery at midnight as a wart-cure. Because he is late tom is ordered to sit in the girls’ section where the only vacant seat in alongside Becky Thatcher, but the courtship gets off to a bad start and Tom and Joe Harper take another holiday from education.
In the cemetery that night, Tom and Huck come upon Dr. Robinson Injun Joe and Muff potter digging up a recently buried corpse. There is a quarrel and Injun Joe stabs the doctor to death after potter has been knocked unconscious. Afterward the boys take an oath never to reveal what they have seen.
The town is in an uproar the next day after the murder is discovered and Injun Joe names Muff Potter as the Killer. Tom is almost sick with apprehension for fear the Injun Joe will learn of the witness to his crime.
Tom, Huck and Joe Harper decide to become pirates and they establish themselves on Jackson’s island in the Mississippi, where they enjoy a carefree outing. It was believed that cannon fire over water would bring up bodies, so when a ferryboat streams past shooting, the boy realize that they are presumed to be drowned. Tom sneaks home at night to leave Aunt Polly a note explaining that they are safe. But he changes his mind when he overheats that church services for the boys will be herd Sunday if they are not found by them. The scheduled funeral is disputed when the three “Deceased” calmly stroll down the aisle.
Back in school, the romance b/w Tom and Becky has its stormy moments. Then Tom finally wins her heart completely by heroically suffering punishment for her misdeed. The excises’ of the last day of school provide the boy with an opportunity to take revenge on their tormentor, the schoolmaster by exposing his gilded bald head to public view.
It has generally been accepted that muff potter killed Dr. Robinson. However Tom is produced at the trial as a surprise witness and relates what actually happened. Injun Joe makes his escape through a window.
While Tom and Huck are on a treasure hunt, they explore an abandoned house. They are trapped upstairs by the arrival of two men. One of them has appeared in town as a deaf and dump Spaniard, bit when he speaks the boys recognize Injun Joe in disguise. The two accomplices take, a box of silver coins from concealment ant take, by chance, dig up a horde of gold that evidently had been buried by some other outlaws. It is decided to take the treasure to Injun Joe’s “number two” hangout. The terrified boys narrowly escape detection and the men leave , after Injun Joe has spoken ominously of remaining in the vicinity until he has accomplished vengeance.
Tom and Huck figure out that number two is a room in the “Temperance Tavern”. Their reasoning proves to be correct and they find that Injun Joe is hiding out there with an abundant supply of whiskey.
On a picnic excursion Tom and Becky become lost in Mc Donegal’s cave. That night Huck follows two men toward caitiff hill. He hears that Injun Joe intends to infect
Injury on the window Douglas because her husband has once had the half breed publicly horsewhipped. Huck hastens to inform Mr. Jones of the plot and the Welshman and his Sons drive off window Douglas comes to the Welshman’s house to care for the homeless boy.
When it is discover that Tom and Becky had not spent the night with friends, a thorough search of the cave is carried out, but the children cannot be found. At one point during their ordeal, Tom catches sight of Injun Joe in a passage. After they have been underground for three days .tom finds an opening miles from the main entrance of the cave, and he and Becky male their way back to town.
Two weeks later tom is appalled to hear Judge Thatcher has had the mouth of Mc Douglas’s cave seared. Only then does Tom half us close that Injun Joe is in the cave. The half breed’s body is just inside the door of the cave; his partner had already been found dead in the river.
Tom and Huck later go back to the cave recover $12,000 worth of treasure, and it is invested for them. Huck is taken into the home of the window Douglas, who intend to educate him and train him in the habits of normal living. Hucks finds this almost unbearable but agree to endure it in return for being admitted to the robber gang that Tom is organizing.
Characters:-
There are 23 characters in this novel.
Main & favorite character:-
Tom is the most important and the most completely presented .this the book is basically the story of his growth and development during one spring and summer in the dusty little village of St. Petersburg.
Tom is a typical boy of his time and place. He has a loving, happy home with a devoted aunt to care for him. He is restricted by the home routine of prayers ,meals, chores , bedtime and the like ,but the beautiful of the nearby river and woods are always there , and if civilized life seems unbearable. Tom can and does escape to nature. His daily life includes regular attendance at school , Sunday school, and church. These are dull but Tom manages to liven them up with his pranks.
Religious is the important part of Tom’s life. Tom hates school and plays hooky frequently. He is an avid reader and acts out the romantic adventures he has read about. Tom’s greatest wish is to be a celebrity and fears too. He is afraid at various places in the book of being harmed by Injun Joe of starving to death with belay in the cave, of witchcraft and of the death during the thunderstorm when he is ill with measles.
Tom’s dreams are the dreams of all boys; to find buried treasure to save his beloved from death, to triumph over his enemy, and thus to be a hero in the eyes of the world. Tom’s dream come true in the book, and the enjoy the admiration of the people in his world.
Miner characters:-
Jim:- Jim is clearly a servant, most likely a slave . He does most of the work around the house, including a lot of tom’s.
Ben Rogers:-Another Tom’s friend in town, although not as good as Joe or Huck. He is the first person Tom tricks into whitewashing the fence.
Jeff Thatcher:-Tom’s friend and Becky’ cousin. Tom tries to get information about Becky from him when she is sick.
Mary :- She is Tom’ cousin . she is older and worries about Tom a lot.
Amy Lawrence:-Tom’s great love before Becky comes to town. He uses her to make a Becky jealous.
Mr. Walters :-The Sunday-school teacher ,who has a bad opinion of Tom. Tom is shocked when Tom has enough tickets to get a free Bible .
The school master:- He is very mean to the students, but is embarrassed by them on examination day.
Dr. Robinson:-A young doctor who steals the body from graves, until he is murdered one night by injun joe.
Muff Potter:- A class drunk of the town, Potter is a nice man who is framed for Dr. robinson’s murder by injun joe.
Mrs. Harper:- Joe’ s mother and a friend of Aunt polly, she worries about Joe as much as Aunt polly worries about Tom .
Favorite Scene:- In this Novel my favorite scene is that scene when Tom plays trick with aunt to avoid the school. But aunt Polly know that he is only playing a trick. After sometime she take thread and red hot coat and she pulled the Tom’s tooth out.
Twain is writing about personal experience in the adventures of Tom Sawyer, and his method of handling his material is humorous. An example of this is the description of Tom’s efforts to learn his Bible verses.
Style:-
Mark Twain wrote one of the great styles of American literature. He helped develop the modem American style he was the first writer who ever used the American vernacular at the level of art twain is writing realistically from personal experience of a boy growing up in a small Mississippi river town before the civil war. He was simple common river folk about whom he is writing. He was the idioms and vocabulary of their, place and condition in life.