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    Tom Sawyer Chapters 25 - 35

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    treasure came to Tom. He went out to find Joe Harper but he failed. Next he sought out Ben Rogers but Ben had gone fishing. Fortunately‚ he stumbled upon Huck Finn the Red-Handed. Tom took Huck to a private place and told him the matter. Huck agreed so willingly. Huck asked Tom where they will dig out the treasure. Tom told him that robbers always hide it on islands or under dead trees that have one limb sticking out‚ or in haunted houses. Since they’ve been to Jackson’s Island‚ Tom told Huck that

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    Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are the two fundamental characters in Twain’s literary classic. They are both mischievous boys who are growing up in St. Petersburg‚ Missouri. Even though the two characters have many similarities‚ they also are divergent. Some of the differences are their love lives and lifestyles and a similarity is that they both witnessed a murder. One of the similarities is Tom and Huck both witness a murder:“...the half-breed

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    man. This is the story of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain. The novel follows the experiences of Tom Sawyer‚ a juvenile delinquent‚ as he sights true love‚ witnesses a murder‚ and embarks on a plethora of other adventures. After all the grief‚ excitement‚ fear‚ and joy‚ Tom emerged as a different person. His once mischievous nature is fading and is becoming replaced with responsibility‚ protectability‚ and integrity. Overall‚ this displays Tom as a more mature and respectable human being

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    mature. Maturity is the act of caring for others‚ growing up‚ showing leadership and telling the truth. Tom Sawyer‚ from the book‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain‚ shows maturity. Tom is an adventure loving boy. He is immature in the beginning of the story but as the story progresses‚ his action demonstrates his maturity. Tom grows up and learns from his own experiences. Tom Sawyer matures throughout the novel by his ability to care for other people‚ his testimony at the trial‚ and his

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    challenges and joys Tom encounters in the village are‚ in their basic structure‚ ones that he or any reader could expect to meet anywhere. For me‚ the cave would represent as a trial that Tom has to pass before he can graduate into maturity. Coming-of-age stories often involve tests in which the protagonist is separated from the rest of the society for a period of time and faces significant dangers or challenges. Only after having survived on the strength of his personal resources‚ is Tom ready to rejoin

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    Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain is about a young boy‚ Tom who learns from his mistakes‚ and becomes a young man. Throughout the story Tom causes mischief. The climax in the story is when Tom‚ Huck‚ and Becky get lost in MacDougal’s cave and the townhouse a funeral thinking they are dead. Tom Sawyer is a mischief young boy growing up and learning from his mistakes. Oh that troublemaker. Tom is nothing like his brother‚ Tom is always ditching school and causing so much trouble. Tom skip school

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    2015). In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there is a main character named Tom sawyer‚ Becky Thatcher‚ Injun Joe‚ and Huck Finn all help transform tom into a better person from start to end of the book. Tom Sawyer goes threw a phenomenal transformation going on adventures and getting in trouble. Mark Twain is the author of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer had made Tom this way to show from how tom starts off immature and transform into more mature boy. Tom starts of very immature in the beginning

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    Charles Dickens’s Satire of Victorian Culture in Oliver Twist In the novel Oliver Twist‚ Charles Dickens ridicules Victorian society; he focuses on the Poor Law system‚ orphans‚ workhouses‚ and the characterization of Oliver and Nancy‚ using sarcasm‚ and the comparison between the real world and the world of Oliver. When Dickens was just a child‚ a lot of traumatic things happened to him. At twelve‚ his father went to prison. He then had to work in a shoe blacking factory. He knew poverty

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    responsibility. Tom has changed his attitude and seriousness throughout this novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.He’s been taught many lessons because of his foolishness towards Aunt Polly. I’ve had to change how I act in class because‚ if you miss something important then it will hurt you on the test. Tom has been punished many times for lying to Aunt Polly. Aunt Polly expects the truth from Tom now because of the mile high stack of lies he has told to her. Steadily through the book Tom has been

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    Tom Sawyer Ch. 4-8

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    Tom was presented with a Bible because he was able to obtain ten tickets of each color provided‚ earned when reciting two thousand bible verses‚ after reciting the verses the reward is a Bible. I don’t think Tom deserved it because he didn’t quite have the required amount‚ and he also kept paying for tickets and trading things for them with anything he had instead of reciting verses the way he was supposed to. Judge Thatcher is especially important to Tom because the Judge is the father of the

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