TOM SAWYER
Tom Sawyer lives with his father, who is a drunk and bad man
who wants Tom’s money. For this reason he took Tom to an island and kept him in
a hut. Before this Tom gave all his money to the Judge Thatcher because he had
found treasure with his friend Huckleberry Finn.
When Tom was in the hut his father hit him every day asking
for his money, but Tom stayed quiet. One day his father went to the city and
Tom decided run away, so he caught a pig, killed it, took its hair and put the
blood in the hut along with pieces of pig’s hair, so when his father come back
he thought Tom was killed.
Tom was walking through the island and he met a black man: a
slave who was his best friend, but in those days they were not allowed to have
black friends. They have to live hiding people in the city, so one day Tom
dressed up as a girl and went into a store asking for eggs and food but he
shoplifting because they didn’t have money. The owner of the slave was also
looking for him and posted papers around the city giving a reward for the
citizen who found him.
They decided to go to another city so they took a boat. In
this boat were three more men who said they were princes, but they were
thieves: one of them used to vandalise public property, and the others
shoplifted. They recognized the slave and wanted the money so immediately went
to the city and told them were he was.
Tom and his friend realize this and hid in the other city where
they started to work. Nobody recognized them, and the family where they worked adopted
Tom because he was a good boy and recognized their effort. But Tom’s friends
were looking for him everywhere - even his friends who remember all the good
times with him. For example the day when they decided to make a gang and steal
money but not from women and old people, or when they ran to an island and
spent almost a week smoking and playing cards.
If this gang were around nowadays, we could easily find out
how they dodged fares, vandalised public property, and sprayed graffiti, because
they were rebel boys, and obviously if they had cars they would be speeding all
the time.
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