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Tom Sawyer Introduction
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Tom Sawyer Introduction
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Tom's hopes and dreams - Injun Joe
The Treasure - The bridge between Tom's fantasy life and real life is blurred.
The Novel: Themes
- Manipulation
- Freedom of youth
- Hopes, plans and dreams
- Supernatural
- Race
- Religion
The Novel: Characters
- Tom Sawyer: main character,embodies the elements of childhood
- Huck Finn: Tom's best friend
- Becky Thatcher: Tom's love interest
- Injun Joe: Represents the bad in people
Mark Twain
- Real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
- Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
The Novel: Plot
The Novel: General
- Written in 1876.
- About a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
- It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
- Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid.
- Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town.
- Bored by school, Tom, his best friend Joe Harper, and Huck run away to an island in the Mississippi called Jackson's Island.
- In court, Injun Joe pins the murder on Muff Potter, but Tom and Huckleberry Finn know he is innocent.
- 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 in the floor, they see Injun Joe disguised as a deaf-mute Spaniard.
- When Tom hears of the sealing several days later and directs a posse to the cave, they find Injun Joe's corpse just inside the sealed entrance, starved to death.
- A week later, having deduced from Injun Joe's presence at McDougal's Cave that the villain must have hidden the stolen gold inside, Tom takes Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold, the proceeds of which are invested for them.
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