Tom Sawyer is mischievous and heroic boy that goes through adventures in love, friendship, and murder. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is about a boy maturing from a mischievous troublemaker into a compassionate young man. When the novel begins, Tom is a disobedient child who envies his friend, Huckleberry Finn’s carefree lifestyle and freedom. As Tom’s adventures continue, however, Tom slowly moves away from his childhood concerns and makes mature, responsible decisions. Tom shows his increasing maturity, competence, and moral integrity throughout a span of adventures in love, friendship, and daily life that make him more of a grown-up, than a boy. Tom's acts in love are foolish and immature. In the beginning, Tom's love for Becky Thatcher is just a crush. He starts a fight with Becky when he tells Becky about his "marriage" to Amy. Tom then wanted to ask Becky if they could both make up, but Becky refused and caused Tom to be in rage. Although Tom was infuriated with Becky, when Becky accidentally rips one of the pages from Mr. Dobbins' secret book, Tom takes the blame, and saves her from a whipping. Furthermore, another one of his mature events takes place in McDougal's cave. As they extend deeper into the cave, they get lost. Although the children were in despair, Tom shows maturity by being optimistic and encouraging Becky to keep going and says “”Cheers up, Becky, and let’s go on trying””(Twain 241). Keeping his cool, Tom tells Becky “we must stay here, here there’s water to drink. That little piece was our last candle!”(Twain ). Tom shows responsibility when he blows out Becky’s candle to save it and when he finds a spring to get water from once the candles die out. Tom has confidence that both of them will get... ... middle of paper ... ...Huck to understand the importance of accepting society and being a part of it. Tom tries to persuade Huck with the idea of becoming robbers and tells him “Huck, we can’t let you into the gang if you ain’t respectable you know” (Twain 272). Tom states to Huck that you must be suitable and civilized in order to be a robber. This is showing his maturity and how he uses his skills for good motivations compared to his childlike self. In this road to maturity, Tom shows that he can change from his childlike behavior into a young man. During the course of his adventure, Tom matured with his relationship with Becky Thatcher, finding treasure, and his everyday life. All the events in the story influenced Tom’s personality and matured him from his childish ways. Instead of being selfish, Tom matures and becomes aware of other people’s actions rather than overlooking them.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a novel about a young man's search for identity. Huckleberry Finn goes through some changes and learns some life lessons throughout his journey. Huck changes from being just an immature boy at the beginning of the novel to being a more mature man who looks at things in a different perspective now.
Huckleberry Finn, “Huck”, over the course of the novel, was faced with many obstacles that went into creating his moral compass. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huck, a 12 year old boy heavily swayed by society and by Tom Sawyer, a fellow orphan. His opinions and depiction of right and wrong were so swindled to fit into society’s mold. Throughout the story Huck Finn’s moral compass undergoes a complete transformation in search of a new purpose in life. Huck was raised with very little guidance from an alcoholic father, of no mentorship.
The cave that Tom and Becky become lost and trapped in at the end of the novel is a symbol of adversity that Tom must overcome to culminate his maturation. Throughout the entire book Tom is maturing through various situations and the cave is the last obstacle he must overcome. A cave is also a tunnel where someone passes through the darkness and into the light and where many characters in movies and other novels go to contemplate life and evolve.
Later approaching the tragedy of of the book, Tom displays another act of sub-human behavior, nonchalantly brushing off his affairs, “And what’s more I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”(201). Tom in a sense...
In the short story “Cornet at night” by Sinclair Ross, Tom Dickson is a young farm boy who lives on a farm with his parents. He is very naive and has not had a chance to experience the outside world for his own. He knows only what he learns from the farm and school, but now that he gets to go on a small adventure on his on, he grows up in a variety of ways. One way in which Tom grows up is when he goes to town by himself. He has gone before, but with the security of his parents with him, and for a young boy to go to another town “eight miles north of here” is a large task for such a young boy, thus showing one way that he matures. To illustrate this, as Tom rolls into town with Rock he says, “I remember nothing but a smug satisfaction with myself, an exhilarating conviction of importance and
Huckleberry Finn, the son of a known drunk in town, is already able to look back at some exciting adventures and a chaotic and disobedient lifestyle. As he was taken under the wings of the widow Douglas. He lived in her nice house with the intentions of making him an acceptable figure of the american society. After three months Huckeberry Finn cannot take, living a high social life, full of annoying expectations, that he eventually leaves the town St. Petersburg. On his way to freedom and away of authority he gets to know Jim. A colored slave who also escaped from his owner because he was about to be sold to a new plantation owner. They become friends and start to head down the Mississippi river on a self-made raft. On which they experience a bunch crazy adventures, sometimes even dramatic ones. While on their trip Huck basically only experiences fraud, theft and lies as he runs into his father and a clever couple of swindlers. He soon notices that justice, faith and humanity is only presented as a camouflage. At the end of their travels Huckleberry Finn and Jim meet Tom Sawyer and eventually return back to St. Petersb...
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain a young boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn learns what life is like growing up in Missouri. The story follows young Huckleberry as he floats down the Mississippi River on his raft. On his journey he is accompanied by his friend Jim, a runaway slave. Throughout this novel Huckleberry Finn is influenced by a number of people he meets along the way. Huckleberry Finn was brought up in an interesting household. His father was rarely ever home and if he was, he was drunk, his mother had passed away so Huck had no one to really look out for him or take care of him. Huckleberry had the life that many teenagers dream of, no parents to watch you or tell you what to do, but when Huckleberry finds himself in the care of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson things start to drastically change. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are two relatively old women and think that raising a child means turning him into an adult. In order for Huckleberry to become a young man, he was required to attend school, religion was forced upon him, and a behavior that was highly unlike Huck became what was expected of him by the older ladies. Not to long after moving in, Huckleberry ran away. When he finally came home he respected the ladies wishes and did what they wanted, but was never happy with it. When Tom Sawyer enters the picture, he is the immediate apple of Huckleberry's eye. Huckleberry sees Tom as the person that he used to be and was envious of Tom's life. Huckleberry saw freedom and adventure in this young man and soon became very close friends with him. Huck then joins Tom's little "group" to feel that sense of belonging and adventure that he misses out on due to living with the two older ladies. Soon enough Huck realizes that all of Tom's stories are a little exagerated and that his promises of adventure really are not that adventurous. Tom gives Huckleberry a false sense of excitement and eventually Huck leaves Tom's gang. Later on Huckleberry 's father, Pap, enters the story and tries to change everything about Huckleberry that the two women have taught him.
Would you rather take a risk for a possible chance of a reward or a consequence? In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer is a mischievous boy that gets into big trouble. But really, he only has a big heart. Tom has a friend, Huckleberry Finn, but he also has a lady, Becky Thatcher. Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn go on amazing adventures together and surprising things happen that you’ll never believe including pirating, dark caves, and framed murder. Becky makes some good choices, and some awful choices. Sometimes she’s not even thinking about what she’s doing and the results that will come after. Anybody can do that, make choices that will end in a reward and choices that will end in awful consequences. Becky
In Tom's case, the situation rapidly descends into an emergency and brings him near to death, which prompts him to rethink his priorities. While he dangles outside of a window, the determined businessman realizes that what he regrets most in life are “. . . the evenings he had spent away from her [his wife], working. . .” (11), when he should have spent them with the woman he loved. For Mamzelle, however, the situation comes out of nowhere, yet it turns out as a positive experience and brings happiness into her dull soul. Needy children arrive upon her doorstep and begin to teach her what it means to love, yet when the youngsters return to their family, a gaping hole forms in Mamzelle's heart as she now begins to realize how much of her life she has dwelt in loneliness and absence of emotion. Tom and Mamzelle Aurlie's separate realizations hold importance because they develop each character in different ways, therefore showing several common types of reactions under similar circumstances, as well as showing that one does not have to necessarily go through a near-death experience jump out of his or her comfort zone. Realizing that it does not always require a severe jolt in order to reconsider one's purpose on Earth creates opportunities for teenagers to reconsider their own lives, and for certain the author designed their
While Tom’s role in the plot of the novel is small, his contribution to the overall message is integral. His nonsensical antics and wild imagination provide for amusing scenes and moments, however they share a deeper meaning that Twain means to convey to his audience. Representing the juxtaposition of a privileged man in Southern Antebellum society in the character of a young boy contributes to the satiric nature of the novel by providing a certain hilarity to the seriousness of Tom’s cruel
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.
The third and final reason Tom is unhappy and wants to leave, is due to his dreams being put on hold to support his family. Tom envisions a life of adventure, something of which he feels his life is meaningless without. After his father leaves, though not his obligation, Tom takes over the role as the man of the house. Tom feels that he is now responsible for taking care of his mother and sister. Even though Amanda and Laura need him, Tom decides anyway to leave them in search of his own adventures. Tom does not necessarily want to be unlike his father, he thinks of his wanting leave as a gene of sorts, a destiny, something he is supposed to do. When Tom’s coworker, Jim, is invited to dinner, Tom even confides in Jim that Tom is “like my [his] father” and that he is “the
Tom escaped from the fantasy world of Amanda and Laura by hanging out on the fire escape, even though he could never fully escape. Unfortunately for Tom, his life was cramped like the coffin and he was slowly suffocating emotionally and spiritually. Unhappy with the lifestyle he followed in the footsteps of his father, he searched for adventure, escaping the nagging of Amanda.
Tom is a character many people in this generation can relate to. Although the play was written many years ago Tom is just like any other millennial from this day and age. He basically hates his job because it’s not fun. He can’t cope with the fact that he has to pick up all the slack his father left behind. He even seems to think that running away will fix everything. All of these things are very common in society today.
At the time of their arrival, the family was getting ready to travel out to California for work. The next few chapters talk about their journey out west. Along their journey, they come across a family, the Wilsons, who were forced to move by the same landowner. The Wilson’s car broke down and they need help fixing it. Tom offers to fix their car. Despite Ma Joad’s wishes of wanting to keep traveling as a family, Tom suggests that he stays behind with Jim to fix the car, and that the rest of the family should continue to California. Tom and Ma make a compromise. They find a place for the family to stay for the night so Tom and Jim can work on the car. This is the first time that it is clear that Tom is changing. He isn’t being selfish, he is thinking of a family besides his own. It is because they are in the same situation that his family is in that he can sympathize with them, and feel the need to help them