The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Book Worksheet)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain
Main Characters: Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly
Summary: Tom Sawyer is a clever young boy known for his pranks and tricks. He lives with his Aunt Polly and Tom's younger half brother, Sid. Tom is in love with Becky Thatcher. He shows off to her but he accidentally reveals that he liked Amy Lawrence before. One day, to take away his warts, Tom decides to take the dead cat he found to the graveyard at midnight with his friend Huckleberry Finn and wait for the devil to come and take the cat and the warts away. Tom and Huck find 3 people instead at the graveyard, Muff Potter (a drunk man), Injun Joe, and Dr. Robinson. Injun Joe stabs Dr.Robinson to death while Muff Potter is knocked out. Then Injun Joe takes the knife and puts it in Muff Potter's hand. When Muff Potter woke up, he saw the knife in his hand and the dead body. Injun Joe lies to Muff Potter that he did it. Muff Potter believes Injun Joe. Joe Harper, Huck, and Tom decided that they wanted to be pirates. They ran off into the forests and stayed like that for days. Tom didn't want Aunt Polly to be grieving for him, thinking he was dead, so he went to her house secretly and left a secret message. But Aunt Polly didn't get to see the message. After a while Joe and Huck wanted to go home because they were homesick and tired of fishing and playing all day. Then Tom told them the reason why they should stay. It was because they wanted to make their parents or relatives miss them than they all come out the last day. When the gang came back home on the day of their funeral, everyone was surprised and treated them as heroes. When Tom and Huck explore the a "haunted" house they discover Injun Joe and another buff man talking about a hidden treasure. They almost catch Tom and Huck but the two kids are saved by the creaky stairs. Becky Thatcher forgave Tom and they were good friends again. When all the kids get together secretly, they all decided explore a cave. Becky and Tom get lost in the cave and are separated from the others. The other kids don't realize. When Becky's mom realizes that her daughter was lost many people are sent to the cave to begin hunting for the two kids. Tom meets Injun Joe, who is sleeping in the cave. When they are finally found, the Judge puts up a big metal door to block the cave's entrance. Finally, Tom announces that Injun Joe, the murderer, is in the cave. When the Judge opens up the cave, Injun Joe, dead, was laying on the ground in front of the door. After Injun Joe's body is cleared out. Huck and Tom go to find the hidden treasure that they believe Injun Joe was looking for in the cave. They become rich from the treasure which was $12,000.




1. clever

2. Everybody has a different way of showing love.


3. Tom: clever, proud, immature
Aunt Polly, loving, caring, kind

3a.

4. A memorable scene from the story was when Tom made almost every kid in his town help him paint his fence. After Aunt Polly gave him the punishment and he started to paint, Ben Rogers who was eating an apple, came by. Tom started to make it seem like painting the fence was fun. When Ben asked why he was working, Tom said that it wasn't work. Tom made it seem so interesting that Ben offered his apple to try painting the fence. Tom convinced many kids to paint the fence for him. After Tom was finished, he had many things that kids gave to him to try washing the fence.

I chose this scene because it was very funny and it showed that Tom was good with words and is a good persuader, it also showed that Tom was very convincing.

5. I think the author is trying to tell us to have fun in our life. When we are children, we have big imaginations and we love to play. I think the author is telling us to play while we are children because once we become adults, we're to busy for playing and imagination nonsense. Tom really didn't waste his childhood, he was a pirate, a robber, and he even found treasure. In the end of the book it says that the story ends because Tom would become a man and writing about a man would be boring.



6. I would rate this book a 10 because it was very well written. The characters were realistic and interesting. The plot was intriguing and the story was clever and funny.


7.
Beginning: Tom and Huck see Injun Joe murdering Dr.Robinson and framing Muff Potter.



Climax: Tom, Joe, and Huck run away to be pirates and come back on their funerals



Ending: Tom and Becky Thatcher, who like each other, get lost in a cave and find Injun Joe, scared they run away and are saved while Injun Joe dies in the cave searching for a treasure that is found by Tom and Huck who later on become rich(from the treasure).