The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

In fact, he is very different from other boys in St. But Tom fearlessly suffers flogging instead of Becky, whom he is in love with, and defends the innocent Meff Potter in court.Īt first glance, it seems that Tom is an ordinary boy. Yes, he steals sugar from Aunt Polly, cunningly makes the boys paint a fence for him, skips school and not quite honestly receives a beautiful Bible as a gift. His best features are his willingness to sacrifice himself for friends, a sense of justice. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous, yet brave and smart child. After the death of his mother, Tom, he was taken up by her sister Polly. He lives in a small American town called St. The main character of the story is a boy named Thomas Sawyer. True, in this image the traits of not one boy were embodied, but three at once, with whom Mark Twain was familiar. Huckleberry Finn “written off from life.” The same goes for Tom Sawyer. In the preface to the story, Twain noted that most of the adventures described in the book were taken from life, and he survived one or two himself. It does not become obsolete, because there is nothing false, false, unnatural in it, but there is magnificent humor and charming protagonists. Now such conversations generally seem pointless, because Twain’s story is equally liked by both adults and young readers. The writer’s friends, who heard the first chapters, immediately began to convince him that the book was for children. Twain initially believed that he created The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for adults. At least nine translations into Russian are known, the most successful variant is often called the Korney Chukovsky variant. Already in 1877 it was published in the Russian Empire. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” – one of the most popular works of American writer Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain