Tom Sawyer is a mischievous, brave, whimsical, and rowdy boy who goes on adventures, falls in love, and goes on the hunt for riches. In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain, Tom goes from a rowdy little boy sneaking food from his Aunt Polly’s pantry, to a thoughtful young man. Throughout this paper, I will be explaining how tom grows from an irresponsible troublesome boy to a grown up adult. In the very end of the book, Mark Twain wrote, “It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.” Throughout the story, you see tom grow and mature in the most difficult situations, choosing between what is right and what is wrong.
At first, Tom acts foolish and dumb to impress Becky Thatcher, and they develop a “puppy love”, but as the story progresses, Tom and Becky have a fight over him
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At the beginning of their adventure as “pirates”, they play all day in the water without a care in the world, but as they play and set up their camp, they see a ferryboat filled with people on it and realize that “someone drowned”, only to find out that the townsfolk think the BOYS have drowned. In this sorrowful time for the town of St. Petersburg, the boys like the idea of being the center of attention and people are mourning over them, but as they spend more time in the woods by themselves, they get lonely, even though they have each other. Joe Harper hints at wanting to go home because their families are grieving and they shouldn’t hurt them like that, but Tom and Huck talk him out of it shortly after. Throughout their time on the island, Tom had a big secret that he didn’t share with the other boys until it was the day of the funeral, which was to return to the town and attend their own funeral, but once he saw his aunt, he felt instant remorse for putting her through the