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Muff Potter. The simple, drunk friend of Injun Joe who accompanies him to the graveyard only to be framed as Dr. Robinson's murderer. His sweet nature and gratitude to Tom and Huck for delivering presents to his jail cell eventually breaks down Tom's resolve to keep mum about Injun Joe's guilt.
Character Analysis Tom Sawyer. As the title of the novel suggests, Tom Sawyer is the central character of the novel. Tom appears in almost every scene as the chief character. The one major exception occurs when Tom and Becky are lost in McDougal's Cave and the focus of the novel switches to Huck Finn's search for Injun Joe.
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous, yet brave and smart child. His best features are his willingness to sacrifice himself for friends, a sense of justice. Yes, he steals sugar from Aunt Polly, cunningly makes the boys paint a fence for him, skips school and not quite honestly receives a beautiful Bible as a gift.
by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the 1840's in the fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom lives with his deceased mother's sister, Aunt Polly, and his half-brother, Sid. After Tom plays hooky from school, he is made to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence as punishment, but persuades his friends to do it for him.
The opening scene establishes Tom as a rebellious orphan who has fallen into the care of his kind and good-natured Aunt Polly. As an adult representative of authority, Aunt Polly feels she must punish Tom for his inappropriate behavior and shape him into a good citizen. Yet, Tom is a charming boy, and she recognizes that his tricks and ruses ...
A striking false note in the St. Petersburg of Tom Sawyer, however, is the near invisibility of African American slavery, which was a brutal fact of everyday life in both Twain’s Hannibal and ...
A summary of Chapters 1–3 in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
