Tom Sawyer

I really enjoyed reading Tom Sawyer, it was a great story. However, I like the character Ragged Dick because he had more on a city-orientated lifestyle which I can relate to more. However, I did love Tom Sawyer's cleverness an country intelligence. He was very intriguing due to the fact he could work his way out of any situation and; I also enjoyed how he used religion making fun of it with the tickets in the bible. On Pg. 16 the quote "Oh come now you don't mean to let on that, you like it." I thought it was really clever how Tom tricked his friend into doing his work. Also, I thought it was interesting how Mark Twain depicted slaves in the book. Even though they were free, the slaves were still ignorant and distasteful.

On Pg. 19, I loved how Tom Sawyer referred to himself as “…if he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have now comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body if obliged to do, and that Play consists of what a body is obliged to do.” Mark Twain, uses the character of Tom Sawyer to speak to audience and make a personal commentary about himself.