The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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Table of Contents
The Life and Works of Mark Twain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Time Line of Twain's Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii The Historical Context of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. . . ix Characters in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . . . . . . . . . . xiii Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Chapter 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Chapter 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Chapter 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Chapter 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Chapter 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Chapter 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Chapter 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Chapter 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Chapter 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Chapter 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Chapter 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Chapter 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Chapter 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Chapter 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Chapter 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Chapter 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Chapter 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Chapter 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Chapter 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Chapter 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Chapter 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
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Chapter 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Chapter 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Plot Analysis of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . . . . . . . . 210 Creative Writing Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Critical Writing Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Handbook of Literary Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
iv THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835?1910). Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain was a humorist, novelist, reporter, lecturer, travel writer, and licensed riverboat pilot who became one of the most important writers of American literature. While working as a riverboat pilot, Clemens encountered the phrase that later became his pseudonym, or pen name--Mark Twain. Workers on Mississippi riverboats called out "mark twain" to indicate that the water was two fathoms deep--just barely deep enough for a riverboat.
When Twain was four years old, his family moved from Florida, Missouri, to the nearby town of Hannibal. Hannibal lay on the banks of the Mississippi River and became an important riverboat port. The town not only inspired his dreams of becoming a riverboat pilot but also served as the setting for novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In these books Twain changed the name Hannibal to St. Petersburg, meaning "St. Peter's town," or heaven.
When Twain was twelve years old, his father died. Twain then had to worry about making a living, so he followed his older brother's footsteps and left school to learn the printing trade. He became an apprentice, a person who works for someone in order to learn a trade or skill, to a printer. At the age of eighteen, Twain left Hannibal to work as a printer, first in St. Louis and then in New York. By this time, Twain had already begun to write and submit pieces to newspapers and magazines. When he was twenty-one, he went to New Orleans to depart for a trip to the Amazon River in South America. The plan fell apart, but Twain was apprenticed by a Mississippi riverboat pilot, a prestigious job that fulfilled his childhood dream. Twain worked as a riverboat pilot until the start of the Civil War. Before the Civil War, the Mississippi River was a lucrative trading route. When the war interrupted that trade, Twain was forced to find other work. He volunteered as a Confederate soldier but soon deserted and went west, where he worked as a reporter in Virginia City, Nevada, and adopted the name Mark Twain. After traveling to San
Mark Twain
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