The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Rocío Valdés

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 8

Mark Twain

Other similar books by the same author: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, speaker, and comedian.

INDEX

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02

Characters

03

Setting

Introduction

05

About the author

06

Personal opinion

INTRODUCTION

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel about an orphan boy who lives with his Aunt Polly along the Mississippi River. He is a very naughty and a bit troublesome boy, who lives his adventures with his friends Huckleberry Finn, Joe Harper, Jim and Becky.

CHARACTERS

Thomas Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Aunt Polly

Rebecca Thatcher

Tom Sawyer

Huck

Becky

Huck is Tom's friend. There is another novel about this character called "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Tom Sawyer is an 11-year-old boy who wants to be a pirate when he grows up. He has lived with his aunt Polly since his parents passed away. He is inspired by a firefighter that Twain knew, and who used to tell him stories from his youth.

It's Tom's aunt. She lives with him. Aunt Polly is religious and a very good person. Even though she argues with Tom a lot, she loves him so much and she cares for his well-being.

Becky is the girl that Tom likes. She is a very pretty young girl. She is also his friend.

SETTING

The book tells the stories that take place in "Saint Petersburg", a fictional city near the Mississippi River. That city is inspired by "Hannibal", where the author grew up. The Mississippi is a long river in the central United States that flows south through ten states - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri (where the city of Hannibal is located), Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana- all the way to the Gulf of Mexico (Atlantic Ocean), near New Orleans. It´s the fourth longest in the world, after the Amazon, Nile and Yangtze rivers.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American writer and comedian. He wrote very successful and famous novels such as "The Prince and the Pauper", but is best known for his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a city that he would use later as inspiration for the setting for the adventures of Tom Sawyer. A very curious fact about the author of this novel is that he was born during one of Halley's Comet visits to Earth and he predicted that he would also go with it. Interestingly, he died on the comet's next return to Earth, 74 years later.

PERSONAL OPINION

It´s a very funny book. It has been very entertaining for me to read all the adventures that Tom and his friends live. You can also see the differences between the past and nowadays, for example the things that were done before. It has been very curious to me. The story was familiar to me when I began to read, until I realized that The Simpsons had done an episode in honor of this great book.

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