The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Mark Twain

The plot of the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is in the Missouri, near the Mississippi River, at the end of the 19th century. That is the area where Mark Twain grew up, and where he got the ideas to write about the adventures of the two main characters of the book: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. 

Tom Sawyer, the little hero of the story, is a very mischievous and daring boy. No matter how upset his aunt, with whom he lived, would get, he would always 

fall into some kind of trouble. The boy's adventures required vivid imagination, intelligence, some skills, and last, but not the least important, good companion, and that was Huckleberry Finn.Tom is a naughty child, and very daring too, but had he not been that way, he would probably not have had any of the adventures. In Tom's first adventure, we found out how noble he actually could be. He saw a murder in which the innocent person was blamed, and Tom gathered all his courage and risked his life to talk in front of the judge, to save the innocent man. There are other occasions where we see how kind Tom is, for example taking blame on himself for something he didn't do in order to help another person. Tom Sawyer's imagination led him to other incredible and dangerous adventures, like getting lost in a cave, finding treasure and running away from a criminal. But Tom Sawyer encountered his adventures with a friend Huckleberry Finn, who, unlike him, was poor, but always ready for action. Together the two explorers go from adventure to adventure.

I find this book exciting and interesting. I noticed how a child's imagination can create incredible situations. I liked the way the life of the boys was described in detail, acquainting us with the past. Most of all I enjoyed their adventures and I believe that all children of our age did, and always will, find this kind of literature breath taking. One more thing I should not forget: the boy's language. Mark Twain made their dialogues, and the entire atmosphere, extremely colourful by using the language of the streets certain social circles spoke. This element of story telling puzzled me at first, but as I got used to it, it added to the charms and spell this novel had on me. 

My next blogpost will be on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

Tom Sawyer is a cunning boy.

  

But he is just as well noble