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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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    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 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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    not want their children hanging around a soon-to-be alcoholic‚ in case it had a bad influence on them. Contrary to this description‚ it is discovered throughout the story that Huck is not such a horrible boy; he is quite like any other boy‚ such as Tom or Joe Harper. Huck just wanted to be able to have fun and live a carefree life. When the three boys run away to be pirates‚ Huck had the most enjoyable time. It wasn’t because pirates are usually thought of as evil; but because he could leave all the

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    “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Using the knowledge I received while reading the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” I created a book cover with symbols that represent the plotline. In my book cover I chose a series of images that includes a white fence‚ a paint brush‚ a paint bucket‚ a large tree‚ map and marbles. With the symbol of the tree and the map‚ I used my knowledge of the finally of novel to give a slight insight into the ending of the novel. In the ending of novel‚ Tom and Huck find gold

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    In Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ the setting of the book is greatly influenced by his very own life‚ making it even more real and relatable. Many things were obviously from his own life‚ such as the town and language‚ others were less obvious‚ like the characters or adventures. Mark Twain wrote what he knew‚ putting his hometown‚ jobs and friends into the book. He mixed personalities and events making them new and relatable‚ his language and train of thought in the book is clearly

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    Lying‚ something the human flesh has struggled with for ages. It has shattered the lives of millions and offered the illusion of hope to countless others. Can this mechanism ever be operated for good? In the classic book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain‚ Tom was faced with this same question‚ is lying always bad? Lying is saying something that is not true. But can a lie be good? Everyone agrees that a lie is saying something untruthful. Some believe that‚ used in the right way; lies can be

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    Mark Twain effectively described nature in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer very precisely. He specifically talked about one day being sunny and beautiful then the next as a gloomy hurricane type like storm that approached out of nowhere. His ability to describe nature is very clear in these two chapters of the book. Tom had been in the woods at the camp with his two friends Joe and Huck. One morning Tom had woken up and had no clue as to where he was. When he wiped his eye he began to

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