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Summary: awesome book
Review: This was the best book i'v ever read it is so interesting and fun to read i recommend this book for thriller/adventure seeking people.
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Summary: An Example of Mark Twain's Brilliance
Review: I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 7th grade as required reading. I loved it. It is about the many adventures of a boy named Tom Sawyer. You can tell how good the book is going to be from the first scene. Tom is feeling down because he has to whitewash while the other boys are playing. So, by using reverse psychology he makes the other boys give him items for the "privelege" of whitewashing.
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Summary: Second to none
Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was our family book club's June selection. In preparation for our "meeting," my son wrote the following:You've probably heard of Tom Sawyer, but have you ever thought about him? For example, have you wondered, "Is he like me somehow?" Or when somebody mentioned Tom Sawyer, have you thought "Oh, yeah. I've heard of him. Protagonist in one of Twain's (Clemens') many novels. Little rascal." Sure, Tom is a rascal, but he's not bad; he's nothing more than a boy looking for more than the world can give him. Twain keeps this "history of a boy" (p. 208) simple: We do not witness a complete bildungsroman ("growing up story"), which makes the story arc easy to grasp and leaves Twain the ability to revisit the characters as adults. He concludes, "Some day it may seem worth while to take up the story of the younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they turned out to be; therefore it will be wisest not to reveal any of that part of their lives at present." (p. 208) Twain also makes Tom's story more enjoyable by jumping in every now and then, putting his own opinion into the storyline. For example, in "The Pinch-Bug and His Prey," a chapter about the townsfolk going to church, he notes, that the "solemn hush" of the congregation is "only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir." He continues, "There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was, now. It was a great many years ago, I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country." (p. 31) The author also makes the scenes in the book match the words on the page. For example, in describing a school pageant, he recreates the boredom of the event by describing (in some cases, repeating) each dull speech. This is the opposite of his style in, say, the chapters concerning Injun Joe, which are exciting, suspenseful, and far from dull. Another thing that adds a little "jazz" to the book is that Tom teams up with none other than Huckleberry Finn, the bad influence on the kids of the town. "Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad - and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him." (p. 38) As well as a great book to introduce Twain to kids, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel for anyone who enjoys adventure, humor, and a partial love story, all in one package. At the top of my adventure story list, this book gave me two weeks of enjoyment. Thank you, Mark Twain!
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Summary: Filled with adventure and friendship
Review: This book was a thriller in the woods of the Mississippi River. Tom encounters challenges throughout this book. This book is also diffulcult to put down. Mark Twain did a great job with this masterpiece.
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Summary: Tom Saywer is BORING
Review: This book is very dull and boring which can put the reader to sleep. Tis is because reading these events would take up pages and the evens just happen at a snails pace. If you love reading or easily entertained, I recommend this book to you. If you like action, this book might be for you because even though its boring, it still has it's exciting parts. But for teenagerslike myself, DON'T READ IT, YOU WILL REGRET IT.
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Summary: Sarah's Review
Review: This book was great. Even though I have not yet finished it, I am more than half way done and I love it! I have to read it for school, but I'm taking it as a joy ride!!!!!!! Thank you, Mark Twain, for this WONDERFUL book.
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Summary: Gotta love the classics
Review: Sometimes I read classics and wonder why they were classics - War and Peace surprisingly enough, comes immediately to mind as does "The Scarlet Letter". "Tom Sawyer" is a classic - which means it is old with all the other classics. But like most books which fall under this moniker, a book is classic either because people loved it or because it broke literary ground. In this case, people loved reading "Tom Sawyer" and still do. This brings with it different languages and anachronisms then we are used to, indeed Tom does use the N word a few times but you will note that the narrative author does not... Twain felt is what Sawyer would have said in the 1840's. Why this causes such consternation I do not know - people do not seem to object to the numerous corporal punishments done in the schools. Anyhow, I shall stop ranting about political correctness. Because this tale does not worry about being poilitically correct, one of the many great things about it. In a lot of ways this tale is about a simpler time in American life and the life of a young boy. It tells the tale of Tom Sawyer growing up, it is a simple story by one of the best American authors of all time. It is often funny (the dog interrupting the sermon being a particular favourite of mine), occasionaly moving and rich in detail. The narrative is at times deep - Tom's guilt over Muff Potters being a perfect example and captures the mind of a boy becoming an adolescent. It gives a glimpse of life on the Mississippi a hundred and fifty years ago (or at least a perception of that life from forty years later). Twain knows his craft, he knows how to weave an enticing yarn. So why not do yourself a favour and pick up a classic today?
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Summary: Tom Sawyer review
Review: This is the story of a young boy growing up in the 1840's. Funny anecdotes flavor this delightful tale that captures the essence of the time period. Many true and embellished stories of Mark Twain and his childhood comrades fill the pages of this delightful page turner
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Summary: crap
Review: what kind of crap is this? People call this man the beloved author of the century and greatest american writer. yea right. This book is garbage. The characters are stupid. The plot is so basic and boring that anbody could understand it. This book also has a lot of racism in it towards african americans in this time period considering it was published after the civil war. The N word is used a lot by Tom. Overall this book is complete meanigless dribble and brings America to more shame. Sad. If u would like a good author to read check out Orson Scott Card.
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Summary: Twain was simply amazing
Review: "Tom Sawyer" is a great story, but what truly makes this or any other work by Mr. Clemens is that he is able, with perfect precision, to show the psychology of life; in this case, the psychology of an adolescent boy, and his interactions with other similarly adolescent young people. Once again, the story is fantastic, but it is the essence of Mark Twain himself which is most brilliant.
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