Tom's Cruelty Quotes

In the novel, “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” written by Mark Twain, Twain introduces a character by the name of Tom Sawyer. Tom was such a person whose personality was the complete opposite of the main character Huck. Tom’s personality is like a leader who fantasizes all of his decisions. His decisions are based mostly on the fiction stories he reads. During the story Tom appears for a short time then goes away after which he comes back. When he comes back he has some really important information that he does not tell anyone until the end.

When Tom told everyone that “Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so; and she set him free in her will.” Everyone was worried about Jim about being caught and Tom is there knowing that he is free so there is no need to panic but he still doesn't inform anyone of the demise of Miss Watson. When Tom is questioned why he didn’t let anyone know of the demise of Miss Watson and the Jim being a free slave he says, “ Why, I wanted the adventure with it: and I’d ‘a’ waded neck-deep in blood to-goodness alive, AUNT POLLY!” This shows that Tom did this just to fulfill his own desire and not to be considerate of others.

Jim suffered in many places, such as when he was chained to the bedstead. Tom even goes as far to say , “If I was to catch a nigger that was ungrateful enough to run away, I wouldn’t give him up, I’d hang him , And whilst the nigger stepped to the door to look at the dime and bite it to see if it was good.” This shows that Tom is cruel and he doesn't like Jim because he is a runaway slave so that's why Tom didn’t tell anyone that he is a free slave. Tom wants to see Jim suffer because he can’t hang him due to Huck being good friends with