Gavyne's Book Report - Tom Sawyer

Gavyne Stich
July 2, 2008
Reading

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer shows the reader an interesting life of a boy in the 1800s and describes everything from the village to the graveyards. The different adventures Tom has, changes the plot line a lot. The only difficult thing about reading this book is figuring out the slang. Love, Pirates and more are found in this signature Mark Twain book.

Tom Sawyer is a lad that loves to pull pranks on people, has a vast imagination, and is very mischievous. Once Tom was born, his mother died and he got sent to his guardian (his aunt Polly.) Tom’s pranks aren’t pranks but things to get out of work, like him getting out of whitewashing a fence. Making kids think it’s so great that they have to pay for it.

When mentioning what he does on Saturday is that he and Joe Harper (his best friend) become worst enemies and fight with other children against each other. After they finished fighting, they mentioned a new girl in Tom’s old girlfriend’s house. He falls in love with her instantly. Later on, he breaks her heart twice by first making her think that she’s his first love and another time when Tom ignores her, then loved him twice and they have an on-and-off relationship.

When Tom and Huck were testing a way to get of warts in a graveyard and they notice a murder deep in the horrid place and swear not to tell anyone because they were scared that they might die. Until a court trial came where they told the judge and Injun Joe (the murder) ran away before he could get caught. Later Huck and Tom find Injun Joe at a haunted house and listened from a closet upstairs Injun say that he would be in number two. The murderer and his friend then ran of with a box full of gold. They explore the area that they guessed he was at and he was there. But the next time they checked he was gone. Huck swears that he’ll watch the murderer at all costs. While Hucks watching, he notices Injun and his friend and follows them to some bushes in front of a widow’s house. He over hears the two man gang talk about killing the widow. Frightened he goes and tells a family of strong men and the family chases them away. Later, when Becky (Tom’s girlfriend) and Tom get lost in a cave, Tom’s trying to find ways out of the cavern he sees Injun Joe for a brief second until hearing Tom’s voice echo through the desolate rock, then he disappears around a corner quickly.

After Tom and Becky were found, and brought back to civilization, Tom finds out Huck’s sick. So he waits until he can see him to tell him something he put together about the box of gold. Tom tells Huck about the idea he put together, so they explore the place Tom said. Finding the treasure in the area Tom thought it was they become the richest people in town, and all the adults tax them.

In his adventures he runs away with two friends Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper to an island on the Mississippi river on a wooden raft. When they landed on Jackson Island, they had high hopes which got terminated as time went by. After about a month, they return to their funeral, and they all get loved by families and friends.

This book was a great novel that kept my interests up through the whole thing. All the adventures were new and kept the momentum up at a good pace. The ending was Tom helping Huck become his friend again and was brought back to civilization. I think if Mark Twain added a couple more adventures and more of Tom’s adult life.