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There are many reasons why I enjoy this book; one of them is because of the fine amount of courage, romance and superstition. Understandably, all of these of course, are children’s cases of them. His courage is the manliest attribute. His love and superstition is comically his most childish attribute. If I may, I will reach into the book and find where these sections are in the text. First, his courage, as I mentioned previously, his courage is the manliest attribute of his. Many times in the book Tom comes and does something extraordinary, sometimes for a chance at being famous, as in when he took the beating for Becky. However, sometimes he does it because he knows it is the right thing to do, for example, when he told the court house
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