zhliu0124 reviewed The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town …
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5 stars
Girls, Tom Sawyer is your Prince Charming!
There are a lot of things I like in the book. Tom Sawyer is a remarkable character this book created.
Just imagine, there is a boy who falls in love with you when he first sees you, and he doesn’t hesitate to say “I love you”; a boy who wants to engage with you when he figured out you also like him; a boy who gives you a brass andiron-knob to mend the relationship when he hurts you; a boy who takes the whipping for you when you made the mistakes; a boy who takes you for adventures; a boy who never gives up hope when you too are trapped in a cave and he is as freaked out as you; a boy who kissed you, when you are too weak in the cave, “with a chocking sensation in his throat, and made a show of being confident of finding the searchers or an escape from the cave” and then “took the kite-line in his hands and went groping down one of the passages on his hands and knees, distressed with hunger and sick with bodings of coming doom.” Would you love him?
Not only this, Tom is also a smart boy, knows how to trick his friends to whitewash the fence for him, thinking they own him. He is the boy who knows how to get the maximum effect - “return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals!” He is also a boy with integrity - testifying for the poor Muff Potter even though he knows how Inju Joe is; he is also a boy with love - knowing that Aunt Polly would worry about him, he went back to tell her that he had going pirating; he is also a boy keeping his promises - leaving a note to his friends saying that they can have all his treasures if he doesn’t come back for breakfast.
Oh, Tom.
There are a lot of things I like in the book. Tom Sawyer is a remarkable character this book created.
Just imagine, there is a boy who falls in love with you when he first sees you, and he doesn’t hesitate to say “I love you”; a boy who wants to engage with you when he figured out you also like him; a boy who gives you a brass andiron-knob to mend the relationship when he hurts you; a boy who takes the whipping for you when you made the mistakes; a boy who takes you for adventures; a boy who never gives up hope when you too are trapped in a cave and he is as freaked out as you; a boy who kissed you, when you are too weak in the cave, “with a chocking sensation in his throat, and made a show of being confident of finding the searchers or an escape from the cave” and then “took the kite-line in his hands and went groping down one of the passages on his hands and knees, distressed with hunger and sick with bodings of coming doom.” Would you love him?
Not only this, Tom is also a smart boy, knows how to trick his friends to whitewash the fence for him, thinking they own him. He is the boy who knows how to get the maximum effect - “return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals!” He is also a boy with integrity - testifying for the poor Muff Potter even though he knows how Inju Joe is; he is also a boy with love - knowing that Aunt Polly would worry about him, he went back to tell her that he had going pirating; he is also a boy keeping his promises - leaving a note to his friends saying that they can have all his treasures if he doesn’t come back for breakfast.
Oh, Tom.