Persuasion In The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

In the story of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, the protagonist Tom is a businessman. His tactics are to be said as such, moving boys all alike to fall into his plans like a business. Persuasion is the tool that runs this business, as he can demonstrate with in-depth knowledge how to buy people or bargain value from what is a waste of their time. By convincing the specialty of the task at hand and by his ability to foster dedication to a task with pride, he can turn onlookers into a dedicated workforce.

It begins as the narrative progresses to mid-chapter 2, where Tom has started to perform his whitewashing on the fence, stroking and painting it all to his time on this Sunday. This is where his persuasion skills are expressed where

Ben ranged up alongside him. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work.” (pg. 19 Twain) The demonstration of what is to be simple manual work to what is a prolonged, comforting and satisfying process of artistic devotion to it intrigued Ben to look. This is a sales tactic, to be adverse with sympathy, with joy, with nothing in the eyes of sorrow but what to be said not in anguish, but true devotion to it like said when then noticing Ben “Why, it's you, Ben! I warn't noticing.” (pg. 19 Twain) After he had hooked him into what made this so devoted to such as not work but contemplated with a response of “What do you call work?” (pg. 19 Twain). To him, it isn’t to say, to respond, really work but a way of liking it, not as playing, but as a progressional act of boyhood as he describes it here; “Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" (pg. 19 Twain). And how beforehand he spoke of that work “Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer." (pg. 19 Twain). After the fact, he had convinced Ben to try and was to consent to such, however, it is not to be as he altered his mind to entice the boy instead and subliminally goad him into it. To carry on,

20 Twain) to denounce and underline the boy’s ‘skill’. To such, intimidation of skill is to anyone's regulation of ego would let out it amass themself a hardy stack of a reassertion of pride on their hands. Of course, it’s a lie, truly anyone