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Tom Sawyer Kind-Hearted Quotes

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel written by Mark Twain, includes a boy named Tom Sawyer who can be described as clever and kind-hearted. One characteristic that Tom demonstrates through his actions is his cleverness explained by the quote “ … and by that form was the only vacant place on the girl’s side of the schoolhouse…I STOPPED TO TALK TO HUCKLEBERRY FINN”(p.48). When Tom confesses, he is thinking one step ahead of the teacher because the only reason he wanted to get in trouble was so that he can sit with the girl he likes, Becky Thatcher. He outsmarted the teacher because he was able to make the teacher think that sitting with the girls was something he would despise when in reality, it is exactly what he wanted. Because Tom is kind-hearted,
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