#26

This book is such a great book for anyone to read. Now there was a question that I had asked at the beginning was, "Is Tom always in trouble or causing a lot of trouble?" after reading I found that he was basically getting his own self in trouble instead of everyone else causing him to get in trouble. "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." (chapter 1) this quote explains that Aunt Polly is trying to take care of Tom  but he is getting himself in trouble and she feels bad to punish him.