In chapter nine of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, Tom witnesses real evil, and is forced to make decisions that could potentially impact his life negatively. In this chapter of the story, readers are able to visualize the scenes with great detail. He uses imagery and foreshadowing, which helps the reader predict what will happen in the chapters coming after.
Chapter nine shows lots of imagery. The details of the descriptions gets the readers involved in the story, which helps the reader visualize the scenes in their mind as they are reading it. For example, the dialogues between Tom and Huck is one example.
The dialogue:
'Presently Tom seized his comrade’s arm and said:
‘Sh!’
‘What is it, Tom?’ And the two clung together with beating
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Their actions correspond to their dialogue, which helps the readers visualize what the characters are doing, and how they are feeling. For example, when I read this, I visualized the boys feeling very nervous and scared. These dialogues creates curiosity and suspense for the reader while visualizing the story. Twain uses more imagery in the description of the argument between the three men, as well as the violence that followed. All of the actions were made in a particular order to help the readers visualize what is going on while they are reading the story. The actions made were very descriptive, and makes the reader feel as if he or she was there. For example, an excerpt from this part states,”Than he robbed the body. After which he put the fatal knife in Potter’s open right hand, and sat down on the dismantled coffin. Tree — four — Five minutes passed, and then Potter began to stir and moan. His hand closed upon the knife; he raised it, glanced at it, and let it fall, with a shudder. en he sat up, pushing the body from him, and gazed at it, and then around him, confusedly. His eyes met Joe’s”. This example shows how Twain wrote the detailed actions in a chronological order, which grabs the reader’s