The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young
boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional
town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom
Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his
clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as
punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for
the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School
tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for a
Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought
it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves
of Scriptural wisdom on his premisesa dozen would strain his capacity, without
a doubt.
Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades
her to get engaged by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she
learns Tom has been engaged previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky
shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where
they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.
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