The best word to describe Tom Sawyer is sneaky. Tom uses his knowledge to get Ben to do his work for him. The author points out that “He had discovered a great law of human action without knowing it-namely, that in order to make any man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain”. He learned how to manipulate people into doing the work that he did not want to do. Tom also brags about whitewashing a fence. In the story he states “ Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”. He gets Ben interested by making it seem like he enjoys whitewashing. Ben thinks that it is something special to whitewash because of Tom’s description. They both live in the town of St. Petersburg. You know this because