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Injun Joe Consequences

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Risk vs. Reward: Choices Made by Injun Joe

Have you ever taken a risk that could impact the rest of your life? This happens many times in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about an adolescent boy named Tom from the small village of St.Petersburg, Missouri. In this action-packed book, Tom goes on a great deal of adventures including escaping his daily chores with his friends to be an island pirate, deciding whether or not to tell the truth when his friend Muff is found guilty for a crime he will never dream of committing, and exploring a large and confusing cave with Becky Thatcher. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Injun Joe is an antagonist. Like a multitude of other characters, he make some very …show more content…

Sure, some very consequential things can come from this choice, but they are unlikely. The consequences included getting stuck in the cave, getting lost in the cave, and someone finding all of his treasures in the cave. Injun Joe chooses the cave to be his Number Two because he thinks it is a very creative and uncommon place, and it is easy for him to find. “No---Number Two---under the cross. The other place is bad---too common.” (159) This is what Injun Joe says about Number Two when asked where to hide the treasure. Very few people think of the cave when Injun Joe says “Number Two” and since he’d just found fresh dirt on the shovels of Tom and Huck, he knows he has to put the money somewhere very …show more content…

As a result of choosing to use the cave as his Number 2, he dies! If he doesn’t choose the cave, he’d get his revenge on Widow Douglas, and create some other kind of destruction. Everyone knows that Injun Joe isn’t looking out for anyone but himself, and he doesn’t mean well for anyone. Injun Joe does everything for the benefit of himself. He uses the cave so his money doesn’t get stolen, he steals the money in the first place to make himself rich, and he uses "t'other" so he has someone else to blame his wrongdoings on if they ever get caught. Choosing to allow “t’other” to be a part of his plans is the most consequential choice because he could easily be hung or thrown in jail for one misstep with

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