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Growing Up In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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“Sometimes you have to be quiet, and swallow your pride, and accept that you're wrong. It's not giving up, it's growing up.” -Unknown. In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom learns how to grow up and mature as a character. He learns that he should care more and he starts being nice. First of Tom started out as a big jerk, taking advantage of people, and manipulating them into doing his job, by making it sound like he was the only one who could do it. Tom was like a sneaky slithering snake. Tom did a lot in the book that got him in trouble. Towards the end of the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom turned around and actually started caring. Becky the girl who Tom cared about was mad, so she ripped a page

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