Hailey Westrup
Kellor Hour 4
Tom Sawyer Growth Paper
“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.” This is a quote by Mark Twain describing humanly growth, and that growth occurs to all of the human race. Becoming more mature and growing up is a major theme within The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer. Throughout the book there are multiple examples of Tom maturing and his own personal growth as a boy becoming more like a man. I know that throughout my 7th grade year I have also matured and grown in many ways, just like how Tom did. In The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, Tom displays the theme of growth very prominently, and is the prime example of it. The entirety of the novel is about Tom’s experiences and multiple adventures as
…show more content…
I have learned so much material and more. I learned soon into the year that I couldn’t just study a little bit the night before a test, so now I study for a little while every day starting some days before the test so I feel prepared when it comes. I have also learned that for my academic benefit that I can’t procrastinate each night. Now, whenever I am doing homework or studying, I leave my phone somewhere where it can’t distract me and grab a snack before I start so I don’t have to get up at all. During 7th I grade I have also figured out how to use my class time more efficiently. This allows me to have less homework and ask teachers questions if I need to at school. I have also become better at being proactive, and because of this I get less missing assignments and my work doesn’t pile up. Finally, I have learned over the course of this year that school is all about the growth and improving yourself, and personally I have noticed that good, progressive growth often comes along with good grades. As a 7th grader this year I have been pushed and compelled to expand my academic abilities with the various assignments, projects, and tests in all of my subjects, and though at times it may have seemed like a challenge I have had growth therefore allowing me to push through these
Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest American novels ever written. The story is about Huck, a young boy who is coming of age and is escaping from his drunken father. Along the way he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away because he overhead that he would be sold. Throughout the story, Huck is faced with the moral dilemma of whether or not to turn Jim in. Mark Twain has purposely placed these two polar opposites together in order to make a satire of the society's institution of slavery. Along the journey, Twain implies his values through Huck on slavery, the two-facedness of society, and represents ideas with the Mississippi River.
“The point is that you can’t be too greedy,” says Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. Many people look up to him as he is apparently now president. The definition of greed is an intense and selfish desire for something especially wealth or power. Greed is a part of human nature. The main character, Tom Sawyer experiences it quite often in the book. Thomas Sawyer is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with his aunt in a small religious town. One of the themes that Mark Twain explores in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is that everyone has some amount of greed in them. Three examples that support this theme are when Tom risked his life in the search for gold, Tom tried to get Becky by making her jealous, and when Tom and his friends ran away because they didn’t feel appreciated.
Huckleberry Finn – The Road To Maturity. Growing up is a long and hard process we must all go through in life. Everyone grows and matures mentally and physically at their own individual rates, and although the line between being a child and being an adult is rather indistinct, there are certain qualities and attitudes that all mature adults possess. Attaining these qualities and ideals can only be accomplished through life experiences and learning through trial and error. No one can grow up overnight; it is impossible.
Growing up, humans get smarter, learn to find their place in their world, and discover their basis of beliefs. Those three things are met when a person looks towards physical, cultural, and geographical surroundings to shape their psychological or moral traits. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck did just that. He was shaped by his journey down the The Mississippi River, his good friend Jim, the crude Miss Watson and his father “Pap”, these surrounding aspects help illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole, developing Huck into the person he was at the end of the novel.
Growing up is different for everyone. Some people are given everything that they want; others have to work for even the one meal they might get a day. This is something that has gone on for as long as humans have walked this Earth. In the novel’s by Mark Twain you get to see both sides of this, the more wealthy side of growing up in Tom Sawyer and the more poor side being Huck Finn, even though these completely different characters end up being friends, you would never think they could be. They become friends through all of the adventures they go on. If you were tell either of them what they were doing was dangerous neither of them would care, they did not see any danger in what they were doing because they loved the adventure side of it so much. They end up going on one adventure that really paid off and they find gold, and end up with 600 dollars each. This changed both of their lives, but mostly Huck’s. In the book by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there were three parts of this story that really stood out to me.
In Mark Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, like most growing children, has many changes in his personality. Throughout the novel Huck constantly learns new things and, despite a few setbacks, he uses them to mature. Through this maturity, Huck becomes more caring and wise, unlike his blithe and childish personality in the beginning of the the novel. Twain characterizes Huck as any other child by telling us his path to maturity. Huck realizes who he is and what he believes.
Throughout time, the growth and maturity of an individual has been a common theme in literature. Often times, a literary character initially appears juvenile to the reader in his or her age, thoughts and actions yet, as the story develops, grows into a mature and dependable individual. Many positive and negative factors can influence the growth of an individual and the evolution of personal character. These factors can include external forces such as an individual’s surroundings, their personal relationships with others, and the conflicts and challenges they face in life. However, there are also innate forces that can influence the growth of a person such as his or her moral beliefs and conscience, which sometimes are enough to overcome negative
The book born worker is about a man named Jose. One day when he got back from school he saw his cousin Arnie. Arnie tells Jose that they should start a business. One day Jose and Arnie were hired by an old man to clean his pool. Jose does all the work and Arnie just sits around. Then the old man fell into the pool. Jose stays with him but Arnie wanted to steal his money and stuff. When the news got around that someone has saved the old man. Jose does nothing because he is a shocked. Then Jose realizes something! He realized exactly what his dad seen. This book stays true to yourself by be nice and listening to your heart. One quote from the story is “he realized”. The other book was about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" tells the story
Tom Sawyer is an adventurous boy, a mischievous boy, a kindhearted boy, and a static character. Twain created Tom as a boy. He did not include any evidence for the reader to conclude that Tom has matured, or grown up, over the course of the story. Isn't The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a book about the nostalgia and greatness of childhood? If Twain was concerned about the growth of Tom and included it in the book, then would the story be as enjoyed? Would it still do its job, that is, making the reader miss the great days of their youth?
I will compare to Tom Sawyer with me because like I are adventurous likes problems and rebellious as it is very smart to convince people, he was born near a river I was born near a beach he grew up with his I grew up with my aunt two popes till the two were separated and lived some time with my grandmother, I had a lot of small adventures like tom also had problems, remember the time tom and Huck were looking for a treasure in a house haunted too but I did not found a treasure we found a gentleman who ran us to and many things to explain that tom and I are similar but not identical and not been too bad and always been good and had no problems but since they parted my parents started
Tom Sawyer, the main character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, is an average boy who is bored with his civilized life and escapes these constraints by pulling pranks. The character, Tom is presented as a realistic and convincing boy. He is kind and loving, but also cruel, stupid, and hypocritical. As the story progresses, Tom shows signs of maturity. The story of Tom Sawyer, as well as TOM being about a realistic character, is a story that is instructive to adults and children.
In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn is anything but a static character. Huck’s evolution through the story can be seen through not only many people, but through objects in the story as well. Huck’s battles throughout with society, Tom, and even his father, Pap, are huge parts of how he evolves into the archetypal hero throughout.
...and bad, right and wrong, danger and friend. His moral growth is contrasted to the character of Tom Sawyer, who justifies his disgraceful and possible destructive concern on the prejudice of slavery or the brutality of separating that weaken the American dream.
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn compares and contrasts the benefits and consequences of living in civilization versus living in the natural world, in the absence of a structured society (Gaither par.9). Twain portrays his preference for the natural world through its beneficial effects on the main character, Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses his story Huckleberry Finn to portray the simplicity of a life led without the constraining rules, regulations, and customs of modern society. He does this by allowing Huck’s life to face less difficulty, and gain moral and practical understanding when he is free from the strains of society and its backward ideals. Twain allows the natural world to foster Huck’s moral and ethical development by allowing him to learn his own code of ethics and ideals by his own experience and not by the influence of others.
To say that Tom Sawyer was an average young boy growing up in Illinois would be an understatement. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", written by Mark Twain is an absolutely enchanting book. Every episode is more exciting than the prior one, which is why this book receives five stars.