Moral Beliefs In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, holds an important role to many teenagers. This book relates to the lives of most young adult and aimed to help them understand the process of being accepted for their own beliefs and understanding that people develop their own moral beliefs. The main character, Tom is a twelve-year old boy, contradicted between his own moral beliefs and the beliefs of the society around him. Tom's personality is immature and deceitful through his actions, such as skipping school and going down to the river, and his negative outlook on working hard and doing chores. Twain suggests that one must infer and obtain their own moral beliefs, while still understanding and connecting to others moral beliefs. People have

In the critique “St.Petersburg’s Adult World” by Elizabeth Peck, Peck States, “Whereas foolishness, pettiness, and gullibility were once scoffed at as villages’ worst failings, the adults of St.Petersburg are now charged with vanity, hypocrisy, false posturing, dishonesty, deception, hysteria, childishness, self-indulgence, sensation-speaking, and self-aggrandizement”(Peck). With Tom’s actions and intentions towards Becky he shows how everyone else in St.Petersburg is “foolish” and “dishonest”, but he is following his moral beliefs and not following what society pressures is correct. He shows his belief that Becky deserves something right, and someone who does not follow all morals of society, but the moral perception they

“Three miles below St. Petersburg at a point where the Mississippi river was a trifle over a mile wide…It was not inhabited…So Jackson's Island was chosen”(Twain 137). After the adventure began Tom, “[D]iscovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it”(Twain 141). After the adventure, “The physicians were all at the cave, so the Widow Douglas came and took charge of the patient”(Twain 280). Tom later found out about Huck’s