Word Choice And Tone In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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Word choice and tone can impact a book a lot by making the reader feel the way that the author thinks they should feel. Mark Twain, author of the adventure novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer uses word choice to convey tone in the book. In the story, Tom, a young teenager from the 1800’s goes through a lot with ups and downs along with his friends Huck Finn and Joe Harper, and his girlfriend Becky Thatcher. As he starts to get close to Huck, he gets in a lot of trouble, becoming an enemy of Injun Joe, a murderer who Tom confesses in seeing murder the doctor. Though he is such a troublemaker, he is still beloved by the people of the village. Throughout the book, Twain uses tones such as worry, playfulness, as well as a bit of frustration through