The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Ana Isabel Prados Rodríguez 2º Bach.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

6. Personal opinion

5. About the author

4. Summary

3. Location of the story

2. Theme of the story

1. Characters

1. Characters

Tom Sawyer:He is the main character of the novel. He is an orphan boy who lives with his aunt and is very adventurous. Tom is a boy with a great imagination who likes to get into mischief with his friends.

Huckeberry Finn: Huck is a young boy who is rejected by most adults and adored by the local boys, who envy his freedom. He and Joe Harper are Tom's best friends.

Aunt Polly: She is Tom's aunt and takes care of him. Tom is a very naughty boy so although she loves him very much and tries to control him, it is very difficult for her. Injun Joe:This represents an evil, anti-social and violent character. He has committed murder, likes to steal and plans to mutilate the widow of the deceased Douglas.

Muff Potter: A drunken friend of Injun Joe. Potter is kind and grateful to Tom and Huck, who bring him gifts after he is wrongly imprisoned for the murder of Dr. Robinson. Becky Thatcher: Mr. Thatcher's beautiful daughter. She is new in town and Tom likes her. Becky becomes a couple with Tom. Sid: He is Tom's half-brother. Sid enjoys getting Tom into trouble. He is mean and very different from Tom.

2. Theme of the story

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an adventure novel that tells the story of a young boy called Tom.

The story takes place in the town of St. Petersburg on the banks of the Mississippi River, in Missouri.

3. Location of the story

4. Summary

After that, Tom meets Huckleberry Finn and goes with him to the cemetery at midnight with a dead cat for mischief. There, they observe a murder. Injun Joe killed Dr. Robinson and tried to blame it on the drunken Muff Porter. Injun Joe didn't realise that the boys have seen what he has done and they kept quiet out of fear, although Tom was saddened when Muff went to prison unfairly.

Tom Sawyer is a boy who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half brother Sid on the banks of the Mississippi River. After skipping school one day, Tom is punished with the task of painting a fence. However, he tricks other children into finishing the job for him. Moreover, Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher but she rejects him.

After another rejection by Becky, Tom, Huck and Joe Harper (Tom's best friend) escaped to Jackson Island. As they had escaped, their relatives thought they had died and organized a funeral for them. At that moment the children reappeared and surprised everyone. After that, overtaken by guilt, Tom testified at Muff Potter's trial and confessed who the real killer was, but Injun Joe managed to escape. At the end, Tom and Becky got lost in a cave, and Tom found Injun Joe there. After escaping and finding the exit, he successfully alerted the townspeople, who closed the cave, leaving Injun Joe inside. Our hero ends up happy after he and Huck found a box of gold (which once belonged to Injun Joe).

5. About the author

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a successful American writer. He wrote works of great success and worldwide fame such as The Prince and the Pauper and A Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but his best known novel is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the place he would use as the setting for Tom Sawyer's adventures. Firstly, he worked for his older brother Orion's newspaper. After that, he became a pilot navigator on the Mississippi River, worked with little success in gold mining, and returned to journalism. As a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), which became very popular and brought him national attention. His travel books were also well received, and he achieved great success as a writer and orator. He finally died of a heart attack in 1910 at the age of 74.

6. Personal opinion

From my point of view, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a very interesting book because it takes us back to our childhood and the mischief we used to do. Besides, adventure books are my favourite books because they are very entertaining and exciting.