...People change for two main reasons: their minds have open or there hearts have been broken. Tom has changed in many ways throughout the novel. I to have changed in many ways throughout my 7th grade year. Tom Sawyer and I have changed like leaves change every season. Throughout this novel Tom Sawyer has changed in many ways. One way he has changed is in the beginning of the novel Tom would trick kids into doing his chores. One example is “say Jim, i'll fetch the water if you'll whitewash some.” Then now at the end of the novel tom would actually do things on his own. One example is when Tom stood up in front of the class and said “I done it” even when he didn't do anything. I have also changed, one way is I have changed...
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...This school year had 171 days in it. 39 weeks. 9 months. Throughout this time, I have changed emotionally and socially. We read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and witnessed Tom grow up. Over the course of this school year, I have grown too academically, emotionally, and socially. First, this classic novel shows Tom’s Personality growth and part of his childhood. In the beginning, Tom is a little reckless and naïve. By the end, he had a strong sense of what is wrong and right, along with good moral lessons. For example, when Tom witnessed the graveyard murder, he had lost sleep, felt horrible, and feared for his life. But later, he revealed who the true killer was. He became the hero of the town, and relieved himself of some stress. Throughout the year, I have grown academics. In September, my favorite class was science. It still is, but instead of chemistry, geology is my favorite type of science. Geology has always been my favorite subject to learn about. When I was little, my mom would take me to the park. Instead...
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...development. One such foil character is Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom is a character that represents society along with its ideals and tendencies. Huck changes from a character that is only slightly different than the general population to someone who is tolerant and mature. Twain deliberately uses Tom’s personality to accentuate the change Huck has undergone throughout the story. Experience: As far as experiences go, Huck had seen and done far more than Tom, even at the beginning. His father, an abusive alcoholic, forced Huck out of his innocence at a young age. He was exposed to cruelty and rage that many people never see, which he...
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...is the main character, and the narrator of the book. After a while of Huck traveling, he finds his friend Tom Sawyer. Along with Tom, Huck is the one that ends up saving Jim, the black slave who escaped with Huck. Huck and Tom never really agreed on much throughout the story. One of the two always thought that they had the better idea. Huck’s character changes throughout the book as he matures, whereas Tom’s character stays the same as a rebellious boy, even though it is obvious that they are similar. Huckleberry Finn's character is very different from Tom Sawyer, as far as maturity levels. Huck always tried to make the right decision in every situation....
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...able to view the world differently than all the adults around him. His experiences throughout his adventures down the Mississippi river force him to question the things society has taught him. During this adventure, he tends to care more about the opinion of others than his own, however his opinion changes in time. Huck’s biggest test of morality is his relationship with Jim, the escaped slave of Ms. Watson. Huck has always been taught that slaves and those of color are below him just because he is white. This is an internal moral struggle for Huck, because he knows to society he is “wrong,” but to him their friendship makes it “right.” The concept of being wrong in the eyes of society and making it right goes beyond just Huck and Jim’s bond. The relationship that Jim and Huck develop over the course of the story is important because the experiences that they share teach Huck to think for himself, allowing him to trust his morals. Huck has grown up in an environment in which Jim is nothing more than the slave of Ms. Watson. From the beginning of the story Jim is not viewed as an actual human, but “property”. Huck has been taught that praying makes you a good person, and that how you act on earth determines where you go after. Ms. Watson tells Huck all about the “bad place” and the only thing he has to say is “I wished I was there.” (5) Every time Huck Finn sees a...
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...Chapter 1-11 Ch 1 1. How did THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER end? Tom and Huck found ($6,000 each) from robbers 2. With whom did Huckleberry (Huck) live? Widow Douglas 3. What is Twain satirizing in Huck’s attitude toward Moses? Religion-“faith” wisdom from dead people 4. Who is Miss Watson? Widow Douglas’s sister 5. What did Huck like to do that the Widow Douglas would not allow? Smoke 6. Why did Huck decide to go back and live with the Widow Douglas after he ran away? Tom Sawyer said he’d start a band of robbers 7. What happened when Huck went to bed that demonstrated his superstitious beliefs? He flicked spider-landed in candle and burned – He then turned around 3 times bent and tied lock of hair Ch 2 1. Who is Jim? Miss Watson’s slave 2. For whom does Jim work? Miss Watson 3. How did Jim explain about how his hat got on the tree limb? Witches 4. Where do the boys meet for their secret meetings? Cave/hole in hill covered by bushes 5. What were the two requirements to join the gang? Every boy stick with band –never tell any secret 6. From where did Tom get the idea for the robber’s oath? His head, pirate-books and robber books 7. What was the punishment for breaking the oath? Kill families of boys who broke the oath 8. What problem did the boys realize that Huck would have concerning the punishment for a broken oath? His father was a drunk-basically an orphan 9. Who did Huck offer to solve this...
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...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...
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...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...
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...In the novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tom is portrayed as a dynamic character who changes throughout the story from selfish to selfless. In the beginning of the story Tom acts as if he cares about nobody but himself. He is just a boy who likes to get out of trouble. Tom gets in trouble with aunt Polly and gets his punishment. He used his persuasion skills to get people to work for him. “ ‘Like it?’ ‘Well, I don't see why I oughtn’t to like it.’ ‘Does a boy get to whitewash a fence everyday?’ That put the thing in a new light Ben stopped nibbling on his apple.”(page 13). Tom’s persuasion skills were used for his own personal benefit. He got out of work by almost making other people do it. Tom will do anything to make his...
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...and Extrinsic Rewards & Motivation August 6, 2011 Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. One of the most famous stories in the novel is whitewashing the fence. It was a chore that Tom’s aunt Polly had assigned him but Tom found a way to get others to do the work and his first convert was Ben. When Ben told Tom he was going swimming and stated “Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work, wouldn’t you? Course you would!”. That was the start of a powerful lesson. Tom replied “Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know, is, it suites Tom Sawyer” and he informed Ben that is it was not every day that a boy gets a chance to whitewash a fence and then proceeded to convince Ben that it was a privilege and only a few boys were even capable of doing such a job. Now the situation changed and Ben was willing to give Tom his apple in exchange for a chance for him to have the privilege of whitewashing the fence. “Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played...
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...You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and putit out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. The widow she cried over me, and called...
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...People must change to live life, but during Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, how does the main character really change? We are introduced to Tom being a coward, when we see him running from Aunt Polly when he is caught eating Jam. “Tom lives in a world defined by the customs and values of boys.”1 Though Tom may do some daring things, most of his actions are made in a sub-conscientious fear. So, how can Tom shake this fear off? Tom’s changes are what make the story interesting, but one may wonder how Tom changes the most. Shortly after the story begins, the famous scene of whitewashing the fence comes into play. First, Tom is painting the fence and he is sad because he cannot go and play. Then, Ben approaches Tom and teases him of how he must be having no fun. Finally, Tom acts like it is a great honor to whitewash a fence and convinces Ben and many other children that he must pay a great deal to do it....
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...Huck and Jim’s relationship has strengthened throughout, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Towards the beginning of the book, Huck’s perception of Jim isn’t very positive. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn thought it would be funny to pull a trick on Jim. So, Tom put Jim’s hat on a tree limb right above him and after this happened “Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance”(6). Huck didn’t care about tricking Jim at all. Actually, they both found humour in this because Jim believed in this superstition and he genuinely thought it was the witches that were messing with him. Huck and Tom made Jim look like the crazy person and took advantage of him. They didn’t care that they didn't tell him the truth and that...
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...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Questions and Characters Major Characters Huckleberry Finn: Huck is the main character who has a taste for adventure just like Tom Sawyer. He can be sneaky in a way that he can trick others and lie. As he goes on this adventure, he begins to feel for the slaves. He came from an uneducated family in the south of St. Petersburg. Out of all his relatives, he is the smartest and because of this his abusive father tries to take advantage of it so Huck can work for him. Jim: a runaway slave who is accompanied by Huck Finn. Jim is a childish and very superstitious person. He despises dangerous adventures thinking that he might get caught and get sent back to his owner. Tom Sawyer: The book is followed...
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...a white man. In my eyes when twain wrote this book he did not care what people were going to think thats why the book turned out as great as i did. most authors think too much about what other people are going to think. when twain wrote the book its was made in 1884 during slavery the word nigger was used very heavily. People focused how much the N word was used but didn't look at how a slave was a friend with a young white boy at the time. The author of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain some say he is racist some say he is just a great author. Is mark twain racist? Most people who read the book say OH! he is racist because he uses the n word and he is white to me he was just creating a good book during a slavery time. A white boy friends with a slave you will never find that in 1884 but in this book...
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