The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Characters:

Tom Sawyer - The novel’s protagonist. Tom may be a mischievous boy with a full of life imagination United Nations agency spends most of the novel obtaining himself, and infrequently his friends, into and out of bother. Despite his mischief, Tom incorporates a sensible heart and a robust ethical conscience. As the novel progresses, he begins to require additional seriously the responsibilities of his role as a frontrunner among his schoolfellows.

Aunt Polly - Tom’s aunt and guardian. Aunt Polly is a simple, kindhearted woman who struggles to balance her love for her nephew with her duty to discipline him. She typically fails in her tries to stay Tom in check as a result of, though she worries concerning Tom’s safety, she appears to worry constrictive him an excessive amount of. Above all, kinswoman Polly needs to be appreciated and blue-eyed.

Huckleberry Finn - The son of the city drunk. Huck may be a juvenile outcast United Nations agency is shunned by respectable society and idolized by the native boys, United Nations agency envies his freedom. Like Tom, toweling is extremely irrational, associated each boys area unit perpetually prepared for a journey. Huck step by step replaces Tom’s friend Joe instrumentalist as Tom’s pal in his escapades.

Becky Thatcher - Judge Thatcher’s pretty, yellow-haired daughter. From virtually the minute she moves to city, Becky is that the “Adored Unknown” United Nations agency stirs Tom’s spirited romantic sensibility. Naïve initially, Becky soon matches Tom as a romantic strategist, and the two go to great lengths to make each other jealous.

Joe instrumentalist - Tom’s “bosom friend” and frequent associate. Joe may be a typical succor, a convention Twain parodies when he refers to Joe and Tom as “two souls with but a single thought.” Though Joe mostly mirrors Tom, he diverges from Tom’s example once he's the primary of the boys to succumb to nostalgia on Jackson’s Island. As the novel progresses, Huck begins to assume Joe’s place as Tom’s companion.

Sid - Tom’s half-brother. Sid may be a goody-goody United Nations agency enjoys obtaining Tom into bother. He is mean-spirited however presents a superficial show of model behavior. He is thus the opposite of Tom, who is warmhearted but behaves badly.

Mary - Tom’s sweet, almost saintly cousin. Mary holds a soft spot for Tom. Like Sid, she is well behaved, however in contrast to him; she acts out of real affectionateness instead of malice.

Injun Joe - A violent, villainous man who commits murder, becomes a robber, and plans to mutilate the Widow Douglas. Injun Joe’s predominant motivation is revenge. Half Native Yankee and [*fr1] Caucasian, he has suffered social exclusion, probably because of his race.

Muff Potter - A miserable drunk and friend of Injun Joe. Potter is kind and grateful toward Tom and toweling, who bring him presents after he is wrongly jailed for Dr. Robinson’s murder. Potter’s naïve trust eventually pushes Tom’s conscience to the limit, compelling Tom to inform the reality at Potter’s trial concerning United Nations agency truly committed the murder.

Dr. Robinson - A respected local physician. Dr. Robinson shows his additional sordid facet on the night of his murder: he hires Injun Joe and Muff Potter to draw Hoss Williams’s grave as a result of he needs to use the corpse for medical experiments.

Mr. Sprague - The minister of the town church.

The Widow politician - A kind, pious resident of St. Petersburg whom the children recognize as a friend. Tom is aware of that the Widow politician can offer him and Becky frozen dessert and allow them to stay over. She is kind to wiping even before she learns that he saved her life.

Mr. Jones - A Welsh United Nations agency lives along with his sons close to the Widow Douglas’s house. Mr. Jones responds to Huck’s alarm on the night that Injun Joe intends to attack the widow, and he takes care of Huck in the aftermath.

Judge Thatcher - Becky’s father, the county judge. A local celebrity, Judge Thatcher inspires the respect of all the townspeople. He takes responsibility for problems moving the community as a full, like closing the cave for safety reasons and taking charge of the boys’ treasure cash.

Jim - Aunt Polly’s young slave.

Amy Lawrence - Tom’s former love. Tom abandons Amy once Becky Thatcher involves city.

Ben Rogers - One of Tom’s friends, whom Tom persuades to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence.

Alfred Temple - A well-dressed new boy in city. Like Amy Lawrence, Alfred gets caught in the crossfire of Tom and Becky’s love games, as Becky pretends to like him in order to make Tom jealous.

Mr. Walters - The somewhat ridiculous Sunday school superintendent. Because he aspires to please Judge Thatcher, Mr. Walters rewards Tom with a Bible, even though he knows that Tom hasn’t earned it.

Mr. Dobbins - The schoolmaster. Mr. Dobbins appears a rather unhappy character: his ambition to be a medical doctor has been foiled and he has become an important drinker and also the butt of schoolchild pranks.

Summary:

An imaginative and mischievous boy named fictitious character lives together with his auntie Polly and his brother, Sid, within the river city of St. Petersburg, Missouri. After playing hooky from school on Friday and dirtying his clothes in a fight, Tom is made to whitewash the fence as punishment on Saturday. At first, Tom is disappointed by having to forfeit his day off. However, he soon cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He trades these treasures for tickets given move into Sunday school for memorizing Bible verses and uses the tickets to say a Bible as a prize. He loses a lot of his glory, however, when, in response to a matter to indicate off his information, he incorrectly answers that the first two disciples were David and Goliath.

Tom falls soft on with Becky Thatcher, a brand new lady in city, and persuades her to get “engaged” to him. Their romance collapses once she learns that Tom has been “engaged” before—to a woman named Amy Lawrence. Shortly once being shunned by Becky, Tom accompanies Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, to the graveyard at night to try out a “cure” for warts. At the necropolis, they witness the murder of young Dr. Robinson by the Native-American “half-breed” Injun Joe. Scared, Tom and toweling run away and swear a blood oath to not tell anyone what they need seen. Injun Joe blames his companion, Muff Potter, a hapless drunk, for the crime. Potter is wrongfully arrested, and Tom’s anxiety and guilt begin to grow.

Tom, Huck, Associate in Nursing Tom’s friend Joe harpist run away to an island to become pirates. While frolicking around and enjoying their new freedom, the boys become aware that the community is sounding the stream for his or her bodies. Tom sneaks back home one night to look at the commotion. After a brief moment of remorse at the suffering of his loved ones, Tom is struck by the idea of appearing at his funeral and surprising everyone. He persuades Joe and Huck to do the same. Their return is met with great rejoicing, and they become the envy and admiration of all their friends.

Back in class, Tom gets himself back in Becky’s favor once he nobly accepts the blame for a book that she has ripped. Soon Muff Potter’s trial begins, and Tom, overcome by guilt, testifies against Injun Joe. Potter is innocent , however red man Joe flees the court through a window.

Summer arrives, and Tom and Huck go hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house. After venturing upstairs they hear a noise below. Peering through holes within the floor, they see red man Joe enter the house disguised as a deaf and mute Spaniard. He and his companion, Associate in Nursing unkempt man, plan to bury some stolen treasure of their own. From their concealment spot, Tom and toweling wriggle with delight at the prospect of excavation it up. By a tremendous coincidence, red man Joe and his partner realize a buried box of gold themselves. When they see Tom and Huck’s tools, they become suspicious that somebody is sharing their spot and carry the gold off rather than reburial it.

Huck begins to shadow red man Joe nightly, watching for an opportunity to nab the gold. Meanwhile, Tom goes on a picnic to McDougal’s Cave with Becky and their classmates. That same night, toweling sees red man Joe and his partner creating off with a box. He follows and overhears their plans to attack the Widow politician, a form resident of St. Petersburg. By running to fetch facilitate, toweling forestalls the violence Associate in Nursing becomes an anonymous hero.

Tom and Becky stray within the cave, and their absence isn't discovered till the subsequent morning. The men of the city begin to look for them, but to no avail. Tom and Becky run out of food and candles and start to weaken. The horror of true will increase once Tom, looking for a way out of the cave, happens upon Injun Joe, who is using the cave as a hideout. Eventually, even as the searchers area unit forgoing, Tom finds a way out. The city celebrates, and Becky’s father, Judge Thatcher, locks up the cave. Injun Joe, trapped inside, starves to death.

A week later, Tom takes Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold, the proceeds of which are invested for them. The Widow politician adopts toweling, and, once toweling makes an attempt to flee civilized life, Tom guarantees him that if he returns to the widow, he will be part of Tom’s thief band. Reluctantly, Huck agrees.