Tom Sawyer is a boy who is full of adventures. In his world there
is an adventure around every corner. Some of his adventures have
lead him into some bad situations but with his good heart and
bright mind he has gotten out of them. Tom lives with his aunt
Polly, his cousin Mary and his bother Sid.
One of the first things to happen in the book is a memorable one,
the painting of the fence. Tom's aunt Polly made Tom paint her
fence on a Saturday as a punishment. Tom just hated the idea of
having to work on a Saturday while all of the neighborhood could
make fun of and harass him. After Tom tried to trade some of his
possessions for a few hours of freedom he had a stroke of genius,
instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay
him to paint. Tom managed this by telling people that it isn't
every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it
was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he
was finished his story. He would have taken every boy in the
town's wealth if he had not run out of paint.
On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend
Huck were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when
they witnessed a murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was
drunk and asleep so Injun Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter).
They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they knew, he would for
sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop
down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in
their own blood they signed their initials TS and HF.
A few days after that incident Tom, Huck and Joe decided to go and
become pirates because no one cared for their company anymore.
They stole some food and supplies and then they stole a raft and
paddled to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River. They
stayed and pirated for s...