Favorite Part: Mr. Robinson’s Murder - The Trio’s Return (Action, Adventure, Plot) Least Favorite Part: Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, is a story about a 12 year old boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is a troublesome boy that lives with his aunt Polly because his mother is dead. Tom directs a lot of his trouble-making towards his aunt which annoys her. To punish him, Polly makes him paint her fence white. Tom is very clever though, and by making it seem that it is fun, he tricks his friends into painting the fence. After they finish, Aunt Polly lets Tom go play with his friends. He sees a girl named Becky. Tom really likes her. Then he goes home and Aunt Polly punishes him because she believes he broke her sugar …show more content…
Although she thinks about it, Aunt Polly didn’t say any words of apology. Tom sees his friend Huckleberry Finn. They plan to have a meeting at midnight. Tom goes to school and sees Becky again. He wants her to be his girlfriend, but she says no because she finds out that he was once in a relationship with another girl in the class. When Tom and Huck meet at midnight, they go to the graveyard. When they arrive, they see three men robbing a grave. Their names are Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Dr. Robinson. Potter and Injun Joe were employed by Dr. Robinson to rob the grave. They refuse to do it unless he pays them a larger sum of money. They break out into a fight. Dr. Robinson hits Potter in the head with the gravestone and while Robinson was recovering, Injun Joe stabbed him with Potter’s knife. Using the fact that he had been drinking prior to, Injun Joe convinces Potter that he killed Robinson by telling him that after he was hit by the tombstone, he got back up and stabbed Dr. Robinson. Tom and Huckleberry saw all of the …show more content…
After sneaking to her house, he finds out that she is sick. He is torn up about this. Another thing is, his Aunt Polly thinks he is sick and makes him take painkiller. Tom, Huckleberry Finn and their friend Joe Harper run away. Tom ran because of these events, Joe for similar reasons, and they decided to invite Huckleberry. After searching for the boys, the town believes they are dead. They return out of home-sickness and guilt just as their funerals are beginning. Being proclaimed dead, when they entered the church, everyone was in shock. Then, a quick series of events happens. Tom earns Becky’s admiration after taking the blame for ripping a book, Summer comes, Tom reveals that Injun Joe murdered Mr. Robinson at Muff Potter’s trial, Injun escapes, and Tom and Huck decide to go hunting for treasure. After going to what appears to be an abandoned shack, they see Injun Joe and a man with a chest of golden coins. After spending a night in the shack, they hide the gold and leave. Tom and Huck look for it. They don’t find it, but decide to find where they are most likely keeping it, “No. 2”. Then Tom goes out looking for what “No. 2” is. He finds out that it is most likely a shady room in a tavern. Huck decides to watch Injun Joe to see where he goes and to confirm if the shady room is “No. 2”. After accidentally opening the door (as it was unlocked) Tom sees Injun Joe asleep. Scared to death, Tom doesn’t bother to
Tom and Jim decide to go to Tom’s uncles house because they think they will find Tom’s family there. When
A couple days later, Huck finds Jim, but Jim has a hard time believing it because he’s supposed to be dead. Jim tells him that he ran away from Widow Douglas’s, which makes Huck feel guilty keeping him. They venture to a cave on the island and stay there until the storm stops. During the storm, a dead man washes up, but Jim doesn’t let Huck look at the face because he says it’s bad luck. Huck starts to get bored on the island so he decided to go into Illinois to get news of things going on.
No one recalls how the feud started, but know two people have been killed that year, one from each family. The two feuding families attend church together, holding rifles in their laps, while the minister preaches about brotherly love. Later, Huck’s slave takes Huck deep into the swamp to show him some “water-moccasins”, but really they find Jim there who tells about how he followed Huck to shore the night they wrecked, but did not try to call out to him being scared of being caught. The next day Huck learns that Sophia ran off with Harney Shepherdson and later in the woods he witnesses Buck and another Grangerford get killed a gunfight with the Shepherdsons. Extremely disturbed, Huck goes down to Jim and the raft and they take off downstream.
They immediately alert the police, but Jeddy's father is out of town so they have to talk to the only policeman in town, Charlie Pope. By the time that the Charlie gets to Jeddy's house and they're able to make it back to the beach, the body is gone. The next day Ruben and Jeddy decide to go to a retired fisherman named Tom Morrison’s house. When they get there they speak to Tom, who admits that he noticed the body and he stole a watch off of it.
They decide to pretend that their plan has been in the works for thirty-seven years. Huck tries to show Tom the reality in his plan, but Tom accuses him of never reading any books. So then Huck succumbs to Tom and agrees to his
As the story progresses the reader understands more about Jim, and the reader understands that he is a true and honest friend to Huckleberry. The pivotal moment with changes our disposition toward Jim is when Huckleberry Finn decides to play a trick on him, just to make Jim look foolish. One foggy night Jim and Huck floated away from each other, Huck in the canoe, and Jim on the raft. Unsurprisingly, the canoe and raft drifted away from each other, they were lost.
Tom Sawyer and Huck sneak out and go to the graveyard. Joe and Muff are there helping the doctor rob the graveyard. Joe and Muff try to get more money out of the doctor and he got really upset and Joe and the doctor get into a fight and when they are both on the ground joe grabs Muffs knife and kills the doctor. Joe frames Muff for the murder of the doctor and the cops take Muff to jail. Tom and Huck said that they would not tell anyone but they should because they can get Joe in trouble and also if Tom and Huck does not tell the sheriff what they seen they could get in trouble, also the cops are going to hang Muff for no reason, and there is a murder on the streets and he could hurt someone else and Tucks nightmares will go away.
After Tom tells his wife, she storms off in a fit to go make a deal with the Devil. After a few days of waiting for his wife to come back, Tom goes out to look for her. When he gets back to the old Indian fortress, Tom finds his wife's things up in the trees and goes to find the
Tom often doesn’t think all of his activities through, which can cause catastrophic issues. Huckleberry Finn- An orphaned boy of about Tom’s age. He too is also very adventurous and especially imaginative. Huck lives on his own as he has never met his parents.
Huck has faked his death, leaving the appearance that he has been chopped to pieces in his Pa’s cabin. As they travel on their raft, Jim explains to Huck why slavery is wrong, although Huck has been brought up to believe slavery is right. Huck struggles with whether or not to turn Jim in. They hide on an island, and Huck dresses up in girl’s clothes he finds in a cabin.
When Tom is in search for the robbers cave he decides to “start [a] band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer ’s Gang” (Twain 19). Being so young, it is understandable for Tom to aspire to such literature. Such Books offer guidance to young boys such as tom, although they might not be the best influence.
So they went to the graveyard and saw three individuals known as Doc Robinson, Injun joe, and muff potter. They were trying to find a map leading to a chest of hidden treasure. Doc Robinson was acting as if he was going to keep the treasure for himself. This upset Injun Joe so he grabbed Muff Potter's knife and stabbed Doc Robinson several times. As Tom and huck were leaving, Toms coat got caught on the fence post and his marble fell out.
Throughout the book, Huck and Jim travel along with the King and the Duke and witness their scams. Their most conniving scam was when they heard that Peter Wilks, a wealthy man, has passed away. The King and Duke hear that Peter Wilks’ other two brothers have not yet arrived, so they decide they will impersonate the brothers, William and Harvey, in order to inherit the family estate. Huck hated their scam because he felt bad for the family`s three daughters, Mary Jane, Susan, and Joanna. Their scam soon fails as the real William and Harvey Wilks show up and the King and the Duke are run out of town.
Although Ms. Watson and Widow Douglas, Twains depiction of 19th century society, has made Huck’s vision of a stereotypical slaves/ African poor, Huck looks past this and sees that slaves can act like whites. Despite of Huck’s young age and lack of education, through experience Huck had looked past the cultural norm of slaves. When two men come to Huck and ask if the raft has any runaway slaves, Huck lies and says that there is only his Pap in the raft with chickenpox. After the men leave, unknowingly that Jim is in the raft, Huck
As the uncomfortable ambiance of the woods went on, shame overcame Huck, and he admitted that he justly wanted to go home. The combination of dreariness and wet clothes secretly made them all want to leave, and Joe was about to admit too when Tom intervened. “Why would we want to go? How about we be brave and stay, just for a few days?” There was a moment of silence between them until an unenthusiastic “ok” was released from Joe and Huck.