How Does Tom Affect Huck Finn
Throughout The Adventures of Tom Sawyer friendship is a big part of this novel written by Mark Twain. Mark Twain puts big emphasis on friendship making it a key to this story. In the story Tom has many different friends and in this essay I will list how each one affects Tom differently and how he acts. One of Tom’s friends is Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn isn’t the greatest example for Tom in these ways. Huck and Tom witnessed a murder and decided it would be wise to not tell anyone and in doing so an innocent man got put into jail. Tom also has a friend named Joe, who isn’t the best influence on him. With the help of Huck and Joe, Tom ran away from home and became a thief. Tom, Huck, and Joe did criminal things to survive on their own, but they
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She tried her hardest to make Tom a better person, but he was very stubborn. Tom ran away from home to become a pirate with Huck Finn and Joe two of his friends who were horrible influences on him. Aunt Polly tried to make him whitewash a fence, but with Tom being so clever and cunning convinced the local kids to do all the work for him. Aunt Polly came out to find that the fence had been whitewashed three times instead of just one. She was very impressed with Tom, who she assumed had done all the work for himself. At one point in this story in about chapter twenty or twenty one a religious revival swept through the town. Tom became religiously for a short while. The local preacher or whatever he was dying and Tom decided that he didn’t want to be religious anymore because he couldn’t drink, cuss, or smoke, however when became Unreligious he didn’t even want to drink, cuss, or smoke anymore. Tom now had no friends because everyone became religious so Tom went back to his old friends Huck and Joe and together they started to steal again. These two friends are not the best examples from Tom who already doesn’t have the best morals. These friends were the only people Tom felt like he could trust because he was scared if people found he knew who really killed doc he would get killed by Injun Joe. These friends had good influences on Tom and bad ones. In the end Tom has grown up a lot since the beginning of the book. I look forward to seeing what happens next with Tom later on in the
She tried her hardest to make Tom a better person, but he was very stubborn. Tom ran away from home to become a pirate with Huck Finn and Joe two of his friends who were horrible influences on him. Aunt Polly tried to make him whitewash a fence, but with Tom being so clever and cunning convinced the local kids to do all the work for him. Aunt Polly came out to find that the fence had been whitewashed three times instead of just one. She was very impressed with Tom, who she assumed had done all the work for himself. At one point in this story in about chapter twenty or twenty one a religious revival swept through the town. Tom became religiously for a short while. The local preacher or whatever he was dying and Tom decided that he didn’t want to be religious anymore because he couldn’t drink, cuss, or smoke, however when became Unreligious he didn’t even want to drink, cuss, or smoke anymore. Tom now had no friends because everyone became religious so Tom went back to his old friends Huck and Joe and together they started to steal again. These two friends are not the best examples from Tom who already doesn’t have the best morals. These friends were the only people Tom felt like he could trust because he was scared if people found he knew who really killed doc he would get killed by Injun Joe. These friends had good influences on Tom and bad ones. In the end Tom has grown up a lot since the beginning of the book. I look forward to seeing what happens next with Tom later on in the