Maturity In Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer

Throughout Tom Sawyer, maturity is clearly shown by Tom as comes of age. But in life, Tom isn’t the only one maturing. Everyone is maturing throughout their lives in different ways. Whether that be academically, socially, or even in responsibility. But throughout even just seventh grade I have found that I have matured in my own way. From the beginning of the book, Tom had been a rowdy, arrogant, selfish, and mischievous boy. But as you read through the book, you found that he was beginning to change. You had first seen this through his compassion towards Aunt Polly. He sat there under his bed, listening to how mournful Aunt Polly had felt over his death. But he doesn’t go there to see how sad they are and to brag to himself about how they loved him so much, but he goes there to relieve Aunt Polly’s pain. Even though he had not given her that piece of bark, the fact that he was even thinking of her shows a sign of maturity in him. One of compassion and kindness. His next point of maturity is in the murder plot line. This is seen when Tom had broken his top of the line promise with Huck. He had made a blood oath to never tell the Injun Joe was the murderer. But even after such a strong promise, Tom broke his oath and told the court that it been injun joe who had killed the doctor. Tom had risked his own life to save

For myself, I would say that I have matured in my own way of self acceptance. I do know that I am not perfect, but I have always attempted to be. I have tried to be someone I am not, yet that had not worked. I had tried to never make a mistake, I had tried to act like someone who was older than me. That time will come in the future, but many would have always liked to relive their lives as kids because it was much easier and they didn’t have to meet such standards. But over time I had continued to try and meet those standards. But I could never quite reach that