Tom Sawyer Quotes

To start, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a book filled with mischievous actions, and emotional restitutions of those mischievous people. Throughout Tom Sawyer, the young man whose name is entitled in the book, is a boy that has many fruits. The problem with trying to evaluate his character based on his fruits is that his fruits were many, and portrayed contradictory qualities. One hand, Tom helped Becky Thatcher by taking the blame for ruining their teacher’s prize possession. His admittal of guilt in Becky’s place can be found on page 139 of the book: “I did it”. This was incredibly good for Tom and it proved that he does not only care for himself, in fact he cares for others more. The punishment that Tom received in Becky's place was described

Another example of Tom’s selfishness is when he finds out that everyone in town thinks that he and his friends are dead. “...Felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them, always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys.” (p122) This quote was a description of the general attitude and thoughts of those at the funeral of the living boys. Back when Tom first saw the boat in the water, looking for their bodies, he immediately told the boys. They wanted to go home and ease the nerves of the townspeople. Tom had a better idea. They would live on the island as long as they wanted and let the people at home assume that they were dead until they returned, and they would receive a million blessings and compliments. Tom’s idea and subsequent actions were blatantly disregarding the emotional trauma that they would cause. Tom’s care was not for others, he wanted only glory for himself and pity from others. All of this begs the question: Could we know Tom by his actions? The answer is yes, yes. The Bible makes it clear that no good comes from man, except through Christ. Only by grace can one fail to do