Baylin's Book Report — Tom Sawyer

Baylin Stich
Reading
8/9/08

Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer is about, many mischievous adventures of a boy. There are the pranks, there’s the adventure, there’s the fun. Tom Sawyer can be mean, but he can be affectionate too.

Tom’s mother died giving birth to him so he was sent to live with his aunt and her son Sid. Sid is a mean tattle teller who likes telling on Tom. Aunt Polly is a loving, caring person who can’t bring herself to hit Tom.

One day, Tom is told to white wash the fence but doesn’t want to and think up a mischievous plan to trick people to do it while they pay him. By making it look interesting he manipulates people to pay him to work there selves. At first he only gets one person but then every boy that walks by becomes interested.

On his way home Tom sees a girl and instantly falls in love. The next day he finds out her name’s Becky. She is a blond haired girl with a pretty face. One day tom sees her again and she is the daughter of a judge. There last name is Thatcher.

The next day Tom talks to Huckleberry Fin about removing warts and Huck is going to try out a way, at the graveyard, and Tom Sais he’ll join him that night. When they go, around midnight, they’ve almost gotten to the right grave when they see three people walking to the same grave. They hide behind a clump of trees. They see its Injun Joe, a doctor, and Muff Potter a drunk. When they do what they want to do they tell the doctor to something else. They get in a fight and the doctor hits Muff and Joe stabs the doctor.

The next day somebody finds the body and tells every one that Muff’s knife is next to the body. They find Muff and put him in jail. A few days later Tom wants to be a pirate and runs away with Huck and Joe Harper to Jackson’s Island. They get there around 2:00 a.m. and go to sleep. They liked the next few days, and then there was a storm that barely survived. Tom goes out to his home one night and hides under a bed that was in front of the door. He hears about there funeral and gets an idea. The day before their funeral Huck and Joe start leaving right before Tom tells them how he plans to appear at their funeral. The next day they appear during their funeral they walk in surprising everyone.
There’s a trial about the murder that happened in the graveyard at the same time Huck and Tom were there. At first poor Muff Potter was taking all the blame when suddenly Tom was called up to the stand. He told everything that happened that night but when he told who the killer was Injun Joe he jumped out the window.

Days later Tom goes into a stage of life were he wants treasure and gets Huck into helping him. They start out digging beneath dead trees. The next day they go into a “haunted” house but see two people coming and run up stairs. While looking through holes in the floor they see Injun Joe and the “deaf and dumb” Spaniard walk in and talk about a revenge job. Injun Joe start digging to bury some six hundred dollars when the Spaniard finds tools Tom and Huck left there. Joe gets suspicious and he just found lots of gold. The tools have fresh dirt on it. They leave quickly with the money.

There’s a picnic and a group of people went to a cave. In the cave Tom and Becky split up from the rest of the group and go exploring. A few days later, while Becky was asleep, Tom goes out to explore and sees a light! He goes and wakes Becky and brings her to the light and some sailors were going by so they bring Tom and Becky home.

When they get out Tom tells Huck there’s the treasure that they’ve bin looking for, in the cave. Tom is going to give Huck all of his stuff if it isn’t there, but he knows it is. They get all their stuff together and leave getting there around 2:00 PM. They find the hole and go in. They go to a spot Tom went to and saw something he hadn’t before. It is a large stone with a cross on it so they go down. They see a patted down spot and dig and find a natural tunnel. They go down and find the gold! They carry it to the Welshman’s house. He comes out and was also heading to the widows house and carries it up. They go in the house and find out there’s a party going on. The widow announces she’s going to start tacking care of Huck.

They get rich but Huck doesn’t like it all fancy. The widow is making him ware nice close and other stuff he can’t stand so he sneaks away. Tom looks for him and finds him. He talks about how he’s still going to be a thief and how Huck can’t join if he doesn’t have good manners.

This book just ends like this; it’s weird isn’t it? I would give it a nine, wouldn’t you? It’s exiting all about adventure and it’s cool. If you like old adventure books Tom Sawyer is the one.