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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Junior Classics) Review

Mark Twain (1835-1910) has rightly been given the cognomen "The Lincoln of Our Literature." In his 1876 novel "Tom Sawyer" he introduces us to Tom and his mischevious and independently minded friend Huckleberry Finn (who would star in his own novel in 1880 which is considered Twain's masterpiece).
Tom Sawyer and younger brother Sid are orphans being raised by the dimit Aunt Polly and her daughter Mary. Tom is a wild and wooly lad eager to use trickery to ease his way through life in the mythical Mississippi River village St. Petersburg(based on Hannibal where Twain had lived as a boy). In this book, which is one of the most famous so called "boy's books" ever written Tom is engaged in such adventures as:
1. Getting village lads to give him gifts for the "privilege" of painting Aunt Polly's fence. Tom is adept at using reverse pyschology on his peers! The fence painting episode is one of the most famous scenes in all of American literature.
2. Playing pirate on an island in the river with his good friend Huck Finn and Joe Harper. The boys have rich imaginations and also enjoy playing Robin Hood and his merry band of Sherwood Foresters.
3. Tom and Huck witness a grisley murder in an old graveyard. The murderer is Injun Joe who is the villain of the piece.
4. Tom and his friends spend so much time on an island that Aunt Polly and the townsfolks think they have drowned. Tom shows up in church to the wonder and amazement of his friends.
5. Humorous scenes occur in Mr. Dobbin's one room schoolhouse where Tom and Becky both get into trouble,
6. Tom testifies at the trial of an innocent man accused of the crime while Injun Joe jumps out of the window in a successful escape.
4. Tom and his girlfriend Becky Thatcher are lost while on a cave expedition picnic. They finally escape but Injun Joe who is hiding in the cave is not so lucky.
6. Tom and Huck play detective and dig up a treasure chest located in the cave containing ,000 which they split
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Mark Twain narrates the story unlike in "Huckleberry Finn" where Huck is himself the narrator. The Missouri he portrtays was by any means idyllic. During this short book there is a murder; slavery is a social norm and Huck is abused by his alcoholic father. The rape of the Widow Douglas is also insinuated as Injun Joe wishes to revenge himself against her for her judge husband's giving the Indian a public flogging. Twain uses some Midwest dialect including the use of the "n" word. He was good at developing comic incidents and telling a good story. This is his most representative book; while not as profound as Huckleberry Finn is is a good read for both young readers and adults who wish to return to a distant past through rereading a true American classic. Enjoy!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Junior Classics) Overview

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun and excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river.

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Customer Reviews

A Classic! - Dominique -
My son was required to read this book this summer and he enjoyed it very much. It's a classic and I would recommend it even if it were not a requirement. Enjoy!

Truly Great; can be enjoyed on Several Levels - Rockinghorse Winner - Reseda, CA United States
Sure, this is a story about a boy. It is also a sharp delineation of the American character, a myth that includes episodes that harken back to Plato, Homer, the Old and New Testament, among other influences. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer presents a new kind of hero, a distinctly American hero, to world literature. From his low estate, due to his poverty, youth and incivility, Tom Sawyer surveys the grand vista of small town American life - and, by extension - America, and by his innocence and natural kindheartedness, redeems it from bigotry, intolerance, hypocrisy and all the ills that attend it. It is through Tom Sawyer's eyes that America is revealed as fresh and vital, even though in the novel he has no standing or prestige in the society. He eventually earns his prestige by a series of adventures that draws the town together and elicits it's highest potentialities. Tom Sawyer is the catalyst and the figure around which the Town realizes it's own highest ideals.

All this freight is carried by a novel that takes the form of a 'young adult's book,' the kind of book that would be a staple of elementary and junior high school cirricula for a hundred years. It is a testament to Twain's capability as a writer to have written one of the truly great American novels in the disguise of a children's book. In this, it imitates it's protagonist, who incorporates in his child form the entire cultural history of America up to that point.

book - Jim R. White -
True classic. I had to read it again. Nobody can ever be to old for this book.

superb' - D. Garza -
What can I say, the book is a classic! It's memorable reading they will remember, for all school children. I bought this for a nephew who likes to read. It will be an adventure for him as it was for me, when I was his age! The price was superb'

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