1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2. Mark Twain 3. The setting of this story is the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, in the mid-1800s. The setting is significant in this story because Tom and his friends are growing up in a time very different from today, and this book shows what life was really like for kids growing up in this time and area. The author, Mark Twain, grew up in a town similar to the one Tom lives in, and uses his own and his friends’ experiences as a base for Tom’s in the story. For these reasons the setting adds life to the story and helps the reader get drawn into it, as though they were there themselves living the story with the characters. 4. This book is about a young boy named Tom Sawyer who grows up and has adventures …show more content…
The theme of this book is growing up and the loss of innocence, and how children mature and learn right from wrong as they get older. 7. Tom Sawyer: “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, that in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.” (p.23) This quote shows how Tom is able to outsmart the other boys into doing his work for him, and is an example of how much of a troublemaker he can be by doing things like this. “What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger, as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.” (p.127) When Tom returned from his pirate adventures on the island, he was treated as a hero, because of the way he was assumed dead and returned during his own funeral. Younger boys looked up to him and boys his own age were jealous of him for it, and Tom greatly enjoyed the attention. “I done it!” (p.139) This quote is from when Tom takes the blame for ripping a book that Becky ripped, saving her from getting in trouble. This is important because it is an example of Tom putting himself in front of others, something he does more than once in the book that shows how he’s acting more