Imagine that you have lost your sister and have taken the responsibility to feed, clothe, bed and raise her children. They come about as a graceful girl, an obedient boy and a rotten embarrassment that happens to be human. The latter ought to receive special treatment to resolve the special circumstances. In a nineteenth-century town named Saint Petersburgh, this situation had developed for Aunt Polly after her sister had finished her life. It shall not be known whether she voluntarily or involuntarily became responsible for Mary, Sid and the infamous Tom. However, everyone knows that Tom was rambunctious. Under this fact, the dispute remains between those who believe that Aunt Polly properly raised tom and those who do not believe so. Unfortunately, Aunt Polly did not bring Tom up to what he ought to be, and therefore the answer lies in the negative; that Aunt Polly did not properly raise Tom. Rottenness dominated Tom’s will, improperness ruled Polly’s procedure, and endurance formed the effect of a faulty childhood. This said childhood was rotten, with fragility and stench complete. First, he despised spirituality, observed in this quote. …show more content…
Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of tracts. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression; and when, in desperation he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all this town was lost, forever and forever.” (Twain