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Injun Joe's Mistakes In The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain

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Injun Joe’s Mistakes Injun Joe made a colossal amount of mistakes in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom goes on many adventures including solving a murder and pirating. Tom makes many friends like Joe Harper, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher. As well as the friends that were made there were also enemies such as Injun joe. Injun Joe’s reputation was very vengeful, spiteful, and clueless. Injun Joe chose to murder Dr. Robinson. Injun held a grudge on him for a long time because in Injun Joe’s words, doctor Robinson “drove me away from your father’s kitchen one night, when I come to ask for something to eat” (61). Out of pure spite Injun Joe chose to murder him in secret. Injun Joe was on the street without any food and wanted some, and Mr. Robinson was going to give it to him. Dr. Robinson convinced Mr.Robinson not to. Although he gets the satisfaction and revenge, but what about the guilt and family that you took Dr. Robinson from. Dr. Robinson might have had some importance in the book if he were not murdered by Injun. …show more content…

Robinson he made the very risky choice of bringing Muff Potter along with him. He brought Muff to frame him while he was drunk, but there are many problems with that. Even though Muff was drunk, he could realize the situation and find out it was Injun. There is also the possibility of somebody else seeing it which Tom and Huck did. Injun Joe did end up without Muff realizing because fortunately enough, Muff is stupid enough to believe he is drunk: “I thought I’d go sober. I’d no business to drink tonight. But it’s in my head …” (62). If Muff hadn’t been framed, then Injun Joe would’ve been the assumed murderer because he had murdered

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