The adventures of Tom Sawyer
frangonlop004
Created on May 1, 2022
More creations to inspire you
Transcript
By: Francisco González 2ºBach
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
start
Index
About the author
PERSONAL OPINION
Main Characters
Book's Spot
About the book
About the book
The adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel about a boy who live by side of the Misisipi River in St Petersburg with his aunt. This book told us about all the adventures that this naughty boy has, it can be from going to live in a deserted island, or simply painting a fence. He usually has all this adventures with his friend, Hukleberry Finn.
Main Characters
During this story appears a lot of characters, most of them with certain importance in the story, for this reason we only see some of the most important characters
Tom Sawyer The novel’s protagonist, who lived with his aunt Polly. Although he is a naughty boy he has a good heart and a strong moral conscience.
Huckleberry FinnThe son of the town drunk. He is one of the best friends of Tom, and he go to lot of adventures with him.
Becky ThatcherJudge Thatcher’s pretty, yellow-haired daughter. Tom fell in love with her when he first saw her.
Main Characters
Muff PotterA hapless drunk and friend of Injun Joe. Potter is kind and grateful toward Tom and Huck, who bring him presents after he is wrongly jailed for Dr. Robinson’s murder.
Injun JoeA violent, villainous man who commits murder, becomes a robber, and plans to mutilate the Widow Douglas.
Joe HarperTom's best friend and also is his frequent playmate.
Aunt PollyTom’s aunt. She is a simple, kindhearted woman who struggles to balance her love for her nephew with her duty to discipline him
Book's spot
It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the story we can also see a river, the Mississippi River, or even a cave, McDougal's cave, where Tom will have lots of adventures in.
About the author
The author of this story is Mark Twain (1885-1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. His most famous novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which have often been called the "Great American Novel".
About the author
When he was four, Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River that, as we see before, inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and it's sequel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. We can emphasise that Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child and Huckleberry Finn in a supporting role, based on Twain's friend Tom Blankenship.
Personal Opinion
In my opinion, I think that The adventures of Tom Sawyer is a really great book, and although that almost everybody have already read it, is a book that is good enough to read again and again in your whole life. It is a simply story, but it is really funny and interesting, with lot of characters that bit by bit take some protagonism in the story, like Huckleberry Finn, who appears lately in the story, but has a main role in the story going to almost all the adventures that Tom has.
Personal Opinion
So, finally, I can say that this book is obligatory to read at least once in your life, I think that all of us have already read it when we were children, but if there are somebody who haven't read it already I recommend it, because I think that is a book that has something that everyone like it.