The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1876. The novel is largely based in Twain’s own memories of his childhood hometown, Hannibal, a river town in Missouri.
The novel isn’t quite as successful as its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which skyrocketed Twain to the role of noteworthy American author. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer includes themes of youth, race, religion, visions of America, the supernatural, language and communication, morality and maturity, and the hopes, plans, and dreams of the young boys who are its protagonists.
The story begins with an imaginative, clever, and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer. He lives with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.
One Friday, after playing hooky from school and being caught messing up his clothes in a fight, Tom must face a punishment: he must whitewash the fence on Saturday.
Through a series of clever tricks, though, Tom manages to convince other local boys to pay him small treasures for the honour of doing his work for him. He wins himself a Bible in Sunday school for these treasures, but answers a Bible question incorrectly, and makes a fool of himself in the process.
At one point, Tom, Huckleberry, and a third boy decide to run away from home and become pirates. While on an island in the Mississippi River, they discover that people think they have died. The three dramatically reappear during their funeral services. Tom and Huckleberry then decide to look for buried treasure in an abandoned house.
The boys are forced to hide when Injun Joe and a partner arrive to bury their own treasure there. However, the two men then stumble upon a gold cache in the house and decide to hide it elsewhere. One night Huck follows them, hoping to find the gold. When he overhears their plan to attack the Widow Douglas, Huck gets help, and the crime is prevented.
Tom begins showing off to a new girl in town, Becky Thatcher, whom he has fallen in love with. He convinces her to get engaged to him, but when Tom accidentally brings up his past love—a girl named Amy Lawrence—things don’t work out, and Becky shuns him. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!
Tom follows Huckleberry Finn, the town pariah and son of a drunk, into a graveyard at night to try finding a cure for warts. Because he has no mother, Huck gets to do whatever he wants, and all the other boys are jealous of him.
But the two boys witness a murder in the graveyard; Dr. Robinson is killed by the “Native-American half-breed” Injun Joe. The boys run away from the scene and swear themselves to secrecy. Injun Joe blames Muff Potter, a drunk, for the murder, and Potter is arrested. Tom feels his guilt and anxiety grow.
Tom, Huck, and another boy named Joe run away to an island to become pirates. After abandoning civilization, they notice people in boats along the river. The community is looking for their bodies, thinking that the boys have drowned. This excites them, although Joe is homesick. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!
Tom sneaks back into the town, watches the pain of his family, and overhears his Aunt Polly praising him. He has an idea, and returns to the other boys to explain his plan. The three boys sneak back into town and make a grand reappearance during their own funerals, to the delight of their families.
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About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American
