#15

      A controversial passage is a passage that has a conflict among it. In the book Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain there were a couple of controversial passages. One was, "I dare you to step over that, and I'll lick you till you can't stand up. Any body that'll take a dare will steal sheep." (page 197 of 3271 on the kindle)
This shows that Tom didn't care what happened to him he just cared about his reputation. Also, "Smarty! you think your SOME, now, DON'T you? Oh, what a hat!"(pages- 186 & 187 of 3271 on the kindle) This shows Toms personality a lot. It shows how much of a kid he is and how he like to have fun.
      There were many more to come but he was a crazy young boy that liked to have fun so far. "But Tom's energy did not last. He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied." (page 243 of 3271 on the kindle) This passage shows that he would do any thing to get out of having to work at any time, he hates watching people do what others do.""Aunt, you don't whack Sid when he takes it." "Well, Sid don't torment a body the way you do. You'd be always into that sugar if i warn't watching you."" (pages 343 & 344 of 3271)  Tom hated that Sid always got away with things but he always was the on that go in trouble with his aunt. And he wonders why his aunt want let him have any sugar. Really I wouldn't after all either because of the way he acts.

#14

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

This quote to me seems like it is saying that,  a growing heart of the youth cant be contained for a long period at a time.

Citation:

"Mark Twain Quotes." Notable Quotes. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. <http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/twain_mark.html>.



#13

http://withfriendship.com/user/cyborg/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer.phpThis image shows Tom sitting done watching his friends do his work. He got them to do this by trading them some of their things.

#12

http://classiclit.about.com/od/tomsawyercrit/fr/aa_tomsawyer2.htm

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Mark Twain is one of America's most-quoted and best-loved writers. He remains today one of that country’s greatest wits and story-tellers, and his tales seem to epitomize the steamboat South of the nineteenth century. Urbane, clever, but always truthful in his writing, Twain has created a number of stories that are loved by children and adults alike.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is just one of these tales, and is unequaled in its evocation of the Mississippi River and the lives of those people who live on its shores. Touching and funny, and always engrossing, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is, and probably always will be, a much-read American classic.

Tom Sawyer is a young boy living with his Aunt on the banks of the Mississippi River. He seems to most enjoy getting into trouble. After missing school one day (and getting into a fight), Tom is punished with the task of whitewashing a fence. However, he turns the punishment into a bit of entertainment as proceeds to con other boys to finish the work for him. He convinces the boys that the chore is a great honor, so he receives in small precious objects in payment.

Around this time, Tom falls in love with a young girl, Becky Thatcher, and suffers under a whirlwind romance and engagement to her before she shuns him. She hears of Tom's previous engagement to Amy Lawrence. Tom realizes that his luck is not entirely in with girls, so he starts a firm friendship with Huckleberry Finn, the very poor sun of a town drunk. While on an adventure in a graveyard at night, witnesses a murder by a native American, Injun Joe.

Afraid of the consequences of this knowledge, he and Huck swear an oath of silence. However, Tom cannot help but break this oath when another man is tried in Injun Joe's place. Tom testifies to what he has seen, the innocent Muff Potter is released, and Injun Joe escapes through a window in the courtroom. Tom gets up to various other adventures, including running away with Huck and another friend, to live like pirates on an island in the Mississippi.

Believing that they are dead, the town prepares their funeral, at which the three boys suddenly appear causing consternation to all. The court case isn't Tom's only encounter with Injun Joe however, as in the final part of the novel he and Becky (newly reunited) get lost in one of the caves, and Tom stumbles across his archenemy. Escaping his clutches and finding his way out, Tom manages to alert the townspeople who lock up the cave, leaving Injun Joe inside. Our hero ends up happily however, as he and Huck discover a box of gold (that once belonged to Injun Joe) and the money is invested for them. Tom finds happiness and, much to his distress, Huck finds respectability by being adopted.

Tom Sawyer is a riotous adventure shot through with humor, pathos and great spades full of excitement. What's more the pure joy for life that Tom, Huck and the other boys of Twain’s imagination go about their riotous business is a joy to behold. It takes one back and makes one pine for a simpler time when the most pressing business was whether to pretend to be pirates or go hunting for treasure.

What's more, by introducing Injun Joe into the mix, Twain manages to heighten the boys adventures by adding real danger, real intrigue (and a little bit of real life). Although he is, in the end, victorious, we cannot help but worry for the easy-go-lucky boy, Tom, even though he rarely worries for himself. What's more, in the character Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain has created a wonderful and enduring character, a chipper poor boy who hates nothing more than respectability and being "sivilised," and wants nothing more than to be out on his river. Huck was so enduring that he well deserved his own set of adventures (which Twain wrote as a sequel to Tom Sawyer).

Uproarious fun, and never lacking in excitement, Tom Sawyer is both a wonderful children's book and a book perfect for those adults who still are children at heart. Never dull, always funny, and sometimes poignant, it is a classic novel from a truly great writer.

 

Citations:

 

 James Topham. "About.com." Classic Literature. 2012.  They New York Times Company. 19 March 2012. http://classiclit.about.com/od/tomsawyercrit/fr/aa_tomsawyer2.htm

#11

     The author of my book is Mark Twain. I have found out a lot of information about him. He is an American.  He was born in Florida, Missouri, in the United States in the time of 1835. Yet he died in Redding, CT, in the year of 1910.  He wrote novels; humor/ stare; short stories; plays; essays; letters.  He had more than just one book banned too.
    Yet he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" because it was kind of what was going on in his life. But he may have had a little imagination to help him make it a little better. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in Hartford, Connecticut, between the time of 1874-1875.  The book was published in December of 1876. I shall say that this is a very good writer.

#10

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was banned. There were many reasons for it to be banded. One reason would be the language, because it had a lot of interproperit language. There were some words that some people said were bad but actually clean. This book also has some actions in it that could even teach some bad things to young kids and teens. There are a million more things that may tell why this book has been banded.
    Parents and teachers really agree to these matters. Reason being is because this book and show young eyes and ears that it is okay to do some things that are really bad things. These things in the book could cause a lot of problems to this world. Reason being is because some teens want to try and do the things they hear about or see done either in their minds or in real life. They think all is alright. So as you can see there are reasons for things to be banded!

#9

    The adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great book. An basic over view would be mostly about the protagonist, which would be Tom Sawyer. He was a very imaginative and mischievous kid that lives in the Mississippi River town, with his aunt Polly and half-brother Sid. When he skips school on friday, and his aunt found out that he did , she punished him. His punishment was to paint the fence white. He did not like having to donate his saturday painting the fence. So he came up with the idea to get his friends to like trade favors. So they did and Toms favor was to paint the fence if he gave them something of his. Well they did paint the fence.
   Latter on when Tom Sawyer became friends with Huckleberry Finn, and Joe Harper they run off to become pirates. While enjoying their fun by running around and playing with each other, they became aware of the community is surrounding the river looking for their bodies. So the boys come up with an idea to return and at their funerals and inlighten everyone for their return. As they did return they had people rejoicing that they were back. They also had become the mos admiration of all their friends.

#8

 What kind of person is the faultfinder in something, you may ask? Well they are called a censor. Now my question for you is what is censorship then? Well I would have to say that it is the time when a censor holds office. An example of this is when you are in court and the judge holds office and is the faultfinder.

"censorship." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 05 Mar. 2012
       <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=censorship&ia=etymon>.