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Childhood Rebellion In Mark Twain's The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer

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Most children go through a stage of rebellion once in their life at around their teenage years. In the picaresque novel, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer written by Mark Twain, portrays this type of rebellion through a young boy named Tom. Tom has made actions that were directly against instruction which had different kinds of consequences. The consequences of childhood rebellion positively affect a child and Twain illustrates this by having Tom go through many consequences mostly involving Aunt Polly or misfortune. Aunt Polly is an important figure to Tom almost as if she were his mother so Twain uses Aunt Polly to influence Tom with her actions and ways of thinking. Firstly, when Aunt Polly found out that Tom lied to her about a dream she was
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