The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great book to read for anyone who loves classic stories. It is about a naughty boy named Tom doing a lot of mischievous tricks and risky adventures. He has a brother named Sid and a sister named Mary. Aunt Polly‚ who takes care of Tom‚ loves him even though he is a firebrand. Huckberry Finn‚ whose nickname is Huck‚ is Tom’s best friend as well as the partner in all of his adventures. One of Tom’s crazy adventures is when he and his friend were in a graveyard trying
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The Devil and Tom Walker is a story that has been passed down from generation to generation. This story is about a man by the name of Tom Walker‚ who believes that wealth and worldly possessions are everything. He is married to a woman that beats him‚ and she could care less about him or his existence. Tom and his wife are cheap‚ greedy‚ manipulative people. They will cheat each other out of anything that will benefit themselves. One day‚ Tom decides to take a shortcut through the woods to get home
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Mrs. McIntyre 11 English H 1 October 2013 The Devil and Tom Walker: A Love Story “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a short story that revolves around supernatural events‚ nature‚ and challenges its own characters to change their pasts. For instance‚ the Devil in “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a supernatural entity who promises fortune if Tom sells his soul. The supernatural events displayed here display the emotional wishes of both Tom and his wife. He is miserable living with his wife and cannot
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Devil and Tom Walker‚” author Washington Irving emphasizes the moral consequences of indulgence in pecuniary materialism by revealing the detrimental effects of Tom Walker’s avarice. Evidence: In the end of the story‚ Tom Walker is taken by the Devil on horseback and never returns to foreclose the mortgage. The truth of his death is unknown‚ but witnesses from the town mentioned that the forest in which the horse had galloped into was set ablaze by a lightning bolt (8). Analysis: Tom Walker’s death
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The Devil and Tom Walker A few miles from Boston‚ in Massachusetts‚ there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay‚ and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp‚ or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge‚ into a high ridge on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size. Under one of these gigantic trees‚ according to old stories‚ there was a great
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Summary Tom Sawyer is a troublemaker. After Tom gets in trouble‚ he is ordered by Aunt Polly‚ with whom he lives‚ to whitewash their fence. When his friends see him painting the fence‚ Tom pretends like he loves the chore to make his friends jealous. They beg him to let them help. This is a prime example of the type of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel is devoted to Tom’s romance with Becky Thatcher‚ a new girl in town. They like each other‚ but Becky is hurt when she
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of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Publication: 1876 Publisher: A young boy Tom Sawyer lives in the town of St. Petersburg‚ Missouri. Here he goes on countless adventures. The story begins with Tom using tricks and cunning lies to get out of doing chores to buy a bible. At Sunday school Tom meets Becky and falls in love with her. However these are just subplots to the main story. Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson a member of the town. Tom and
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Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an African American writer and civil rights activist. She was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia in 1944. Alice Walker is the eighth and youngest child of her parents‚ Minnie Grant and Willie Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye she became a shy and withdrawn child. Walker ended up being the valedictorian of her high school. She attended Spelman College‚ in Atlanta‚ a school for black women. Alice transferred to
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Oakley‚ a widower in his sixties who lives in the village of Little Weirwold. The boy is thinly clad‚ underfed and covered with painful bruises‚ and believing he is full of sin‚ a result of his upbringing by his domineering‚ God-fearing mother. "Mister Tom"‚ as Willie christens his new guardian‚ is reclusive and bad-tempered‚ and as such is avoided by the community. Willie lives with him as his Mother wants him to live with someone who is either very religious or lives next to a Church. Though initially
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being created during this period‚ Summary: “The Devil and Tom Walker”
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