“I ain’t doing my duty
by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and
spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for
us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! He’s my own dead
sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every
time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my
old heart most breaks.”
-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom’s Aunt is saying
that Tom is a typical young boy who like every other child must be disciplined
for the wrong that he does. However she feels it’s different, because she is
very sympathetic for Tom after the loss of his mother. So every time she has to
discipline Tom it breaks her heart and she feels that she shouldn’t have done
it.
"The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer." SparkNotes. SparkNotes. Web. 23 Apr.
2012. <http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/quotes.html>.
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