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The Transformation In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
According to Dictionary.com transfrom means “To change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose” (Dictionary 2015). In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there is a main character named Tom sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Injun Joe, and Huck Finn all help transform tom into a better person from start to end of the book. Tom Sawyer goes threw a phenomenal transformation going on adventures and getting in trouble. Mark Twain is the author of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer had made Tom this way to show from how tom starts off immature and transform into more mature boy.

Tom starts of very immature in the beginning of the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he ends up getting into fights and skipping school. Tom gets into trouble by getting caught from Aunt Polly and made Tom whitewash the fence. Tom had gotten out of whitewashing the fence and tricked mother boys in town whitewash it. “And the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash , he would have bankrupted every boy in the village” (Twain 15). Tom had tricked the boys into doing his job and made a trade with the boys. “Say- I’ll give you the core of my
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After a long time when Tom,Huck, and Joe were on the island for a long time they had become home sick and Tom sneaks back home finding out how bad he has hurt his Aunt Polly. Tom goes under the bed and listens to the conversation from Aunt Polly and the others finding out how much she loves him. “ He never meant any harm, and he was the best hearted boy that ever was” (Twain 116). He knew what he was putting them through and realizing reality, what damage he is doing. Thinking about Aunt Polly he writes her a note and left, but he kept the note. From visiting Aunt Polly he had that was more of a mature choice because he started thinking about others than himself and understanding more of his

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