Imagine two young boys doing what young boys do best, getting into mischief. Having snuck out of their homes and and headed to an old graveyard in the dead of night, three men come out of the gloom suddenly. The boys recognise one as the town drunkard, another as the doctor, and finally, the feared half-Indian, Injun Joe. Because of their fear, the youths hide in the darkness but stay within a distance in which they are able to see and hear everything that is to occur. They witness terrible things, things that put into motion an adventure. In the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Injun Joe is the portrayal of evil because he fixes the blame of his crimes upon a guiltless interiant, he schemed to atrociously attack an old widow, and his basis for …show more content…
When Dr. Robinson wanted needed his assistance to obtain a body for medical study, he seized his opportunity and killed the man for a thing his father had done in his youth. Injun Joe looked at everything through through a lens of gaining retribution. A situation in which this is seen as true is when Tom and Huck overhear him and his partner discussing their next crime. Injun Joe says ‘“Tain’t robbery altogether — it’s REVENGE!’ and a wicked light flamed in his eyes”(Twain, 238) . This later turns out to be the savage mutilation of the Widow Douglas, for the a thing her husband had done as the Justice of the Peace. These indisputable facts continue to confirm the argument of Injun Joe being the representative of evil in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer because he frames an innocent man for the crimes he committed, he planned on brutally murdering a sweet old widow, and that his justification for all these things was revenge. Consequently, it leaves us with the question why. Why did Injun Joe do all he did? Was it simply his instinctive inclination or did his circumstances create who he was? Perhaps if we take a good look around, we may see that our actions affect who others