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Shannon Read's book report on THe adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

2) Time and Place: St.Petersburg, Misouri in the 1840s 3) Chacters: Tom, Joe,Aunt Polly, Huck, Becky, Injun Joe, Muff Potter, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Jones, Judge Thatcher, Widow Douglas 4) Problems: InjunJoe kills Dr. Robinson, Tom, Joe, and Huck run away, Tom and Becky are missing 5) Climax: Muff Potter is released from jail, Injun Joe was found, Tom, Joe and Huck come back, Becky and Tom are found 6) Resolution: Hucklives with Widow Douglas, the cave is closed off, Injun Joe is dead** Tom, a michevious boy, one day skips school and his Aunt Polly find out. He has to white wash a fence the next day. Tom convinces other boy s to do and it works, the fence is finished by noon.Monday, on his way to school he rns into Huck Finn, a homeless boy who can't read or write. This makes Tom late for school so he is punished and made to sit next to Becky. At lunch, Tom convinces Becky that they shoud kiss and get engaged, she does kiss him but then he slips up that he was already engaged to someone else. Tom skips the rest of school to go hang out with his friend Joe. In the middle of the night, Tom ad Huck go to the graveyard, when they are there they hear voices, they think it was INjun Joe, Muff Potter, and Dr. Robinson. The three men are stealing bodies from a grave and the next thing you knew Potter was knocked out, amd Injun Joe murders Robinson. When Potter wakes up Injun Joe told him the he (ot Injun Joe) killed Robinson. Tom and Huck are scared and they decide not to tell anyone what happened. Tom then convinces Joe and Huck that they should become pirates and sail along the Jackson River, they agree and they go. A few nights after Tom starts to feel homesick, so that night when Joe and HUck are asleep he sneaks off home. He then over hears that their funeral was on Saturday if they were not found. He writes a note and then has second thoughts about leaving it. So he doesn't leave it. Tom tells Huck and Joe about his awesome plan to show up at their own funerals, of course they agree. Saturday came before they knew it, the boya walked in the middle of the funeral and the town's people were over joyed. Tom and Becky are still fighting and Becky accendenly ripped a page out of the school book, Tom takes the blame and get punished. Their fighting stopped. Muff POtter's trial begins, Tom is still scred about whta happened ,and he goes against oath, Potter is freed but not before InjunJoe escaps. Tom and Huck go looking for treaseure but instead they find Injun Joe with posesion of a large anout of money. Tom, Becky and a lot of other children go for a picnic, and Tom and Becky get lost. The same night, Huck follows Injun Joe and over hears him saying he was going to hurt Widow Douglas. Huck runs to get Mr. Jones and he and his sons chase off Injun Joe. Toms goes and looks for a way out, and sees Injun Joe, he rus back to Becky to keep her safe. A few days later they had given up hope, Tom then sees light so he leads Becky out. Judge Thatcher has sealed the cave and when Tom finds out he tell the Judge and tehy go searching but when they find him he has starved to death. Tom remembers that the treasure is still in the cave so he and Huck go look for it. WHen they get it they are told to go to Widow Douglas' house where Mr. Jones tells everyone that it was Huck who saved he life. Then Tomw reveals that they are rich, they have treasure. Widow Douglas says that she wants to adopt Huck into her family. He accepts but he admits it is hard to live under her roof every now and then.
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