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    Tom Sawyer Tone Analysis

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    Period 5 3/28/17 Tom Sawyer Tone Tone is used frequently to show feelings in stories; it can change the outcome of how the story is told. Mark Twain‚ the author of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ uses tone to help establish the feelings of the character during each part of the story. Tom Sawyer is about the life of a boy who lies very often. In the beginning of the story‚ Tom starts out by lying very often to avoid punishment. Towards the end of the story‚ Tom soon learns the values

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    Is Tom Sawyer A Leader Or Is He A Follower In The Adventures of Tom SawyerTom engages in some dangerous but fun adventures. There are times that Tom can be considered a leader and there are times Tom sits back and is a follower. Tom takes the follower position when Huck wants to go to the graveyard. He also takes the follower position when Huck wants to take the oath to keep mum about the murder that happened when they were at the graveyard.Tom takes the Leader position most of the time. He takes

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    What drives us to undertake missions John Hammond wants to get the rich‚ Tom Sawyer wants to find treasure‚ and Walt Masters wants to help Loren Hall file his claim. However they all wanted to make a lot of money. The first character is John Hammond. John Hammond is a rich old man and because of that he can afford an island. Due to the fact that he is rich he can do whatever he wants. Also Hammond absolutely adores dinosaurs‚that is why he got the idea to make dinosaurs in the first place. In the

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    "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain‚ who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there‚" Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer‚ Detective‚ two shorter sequels to the first two books. Biography Huck is the son of the town’s vagrant drunkard

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    himself and referencing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. "You don’t know about me‚" Huck narrates‚ "without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚" but that ain’t no matter." He tells readers that‚ for the most part‚ Twain told the truth in Tom Sawyer but that everyone tells some lies‚ even people like Aunt Polly and the Widow Douglas. Huck gives a brief summary of how he and Tom got six thousand dollars each at the end of Tom Sawyer. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money

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    best friend‚ Tom Sawyer‚ represents imagination. In a Mississippi River community Twain makes sure that Tom and Huck differ so the strict separation of imagination and reality is identified. Huck Finn takes ideas and theories of his own and imagines what Tom would do before he acts. Tom’s ideas and aspirations prove he has quite an imagination. During pre-Civil War time Twain has Huck‚ Tom and Jim‚ a run away slave‚ go on a pilgrimage together. For Jim it is a pilgrimage to freedom. Tom goes from imagination

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    in this story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts out with a brief description of the previous book‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both boys stole twelve thousand dollars in the previous book; each boy got six thousand a piece. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are both young boys growing up before the Civil War along the Mississippi. Both boys are mischievous but Tom is the one with all the plans‚ he reads a lot which gives him these ideas‚ which are fairly eccentric. Huck Finn does not live with

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    his old ways and focusing more on Tom Sawyer’s shenanigans rather than Huck’s growth. First‚ Huck Finn starts off as a follower who looks up to Tom Sawyer and wants to be just like him. For example‚ when learning about the “good” the “bad”

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story like no other. Huckleberry Finn story is mainly about limitation and liberation. What us “peoples” to believe about. Huck’s journey down the Mississippi River is represents the everyday American highway of endless possibilities about what is going to happen next. Mark Twain basically transforms a boy’s adventure tale into what people would say to be one of the world’s great books. Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written in‚ narrated

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    It is as if Mark Twain begins portraying Jim through Huck ’s observation rather than Tom ’s observation. As Huck increasingly considers Jim as a more and more complex person with ideas and the conscious mind‚ Jim is described to the reader as less of a person who is comic. Jim ’s deep human world is described in particular in his harrowing

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