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Summary: Paul Newman at his best
Review: This spectacular performance of Mark Twain's classic adventure tale brings the action to life in a way I never dreamed possible. I felt Huck and Tom's fear gripping me in the graveyard scene. I never realized that Twain's story could give such a good scare. Newman's whispering dialogue in the cave between the trapped Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher brought this part of the story to life in a way I never dreamed possible. Sure, kids will love this but adults will appreciate it even more because of the deep nuances Paul Newman brings to the characters and situations. I loved it.
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Summary: Tom Sawyer a must read
Review: Tom Sawyer was a great book.It had an interesting plot.It displays the life of a young boy and his friends.Twain really outdid himself with this one with the life-like characters who display a wide variety of dialects and unfold their personalities in this adventurous classic.Tom goes through his young life quarelling and socializing with other peers.Twain uses his vivid imagination in this story to create a picture in the readers mind of what life was like in the 1800s.Twain also uses the humor and character of his time to write a story that young readers will love. You will be glad that you read this book and hopefully want to read it again.I know I do.
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Summary: Tom Sawyer review by Kyle
Review: Tom Sawyer was a great book! I really enjoyed it.It might bring alot of memories to your mind of your young childhood.It displays the characteristics of a young boy in the 1800s who is experiencing the adventures of childhood. It has a wide variety of dialects and characters who can make you feel histarical,sad, and anxious. It is a great book for the young reader, and gives a detailed idea of what life was like in that time.Twain displays a great amount of sociality from his time,and is known for his writing.Guaranteed, you will love this book after reading it. I plan on reading it again sometime.
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Summary: don't understand
Review: I though the book was going to be more adventorus but the language is very hard to understand
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Summary: Playful, Wry, and Seditious
Review: "Children's" literature is frequently wasted on the young. "Tom Sawyer" is no more a children's story than is "Catch-22." At one level, the plotline is a classic boy's adventure tale, but there are other, more interesting levels.It is a sly, wry expression of Samuel Clemens' (that's Mark Twain's real name for you 6th graders) lack of respect for society, social norms, religion, organized education, Sunday school, and probably civilization in general. I am sure that Clemens whole-heartedly agreed with radicals like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The pages of "Tom Sawyer" fairly drip with the venom of a Victorian curmudgeon. The writing in this book is superb. I would say "luminous" if I weren't afraid of sounding like a dust jacket. As Clemens wrote in "The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper", "(...) when the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk shall sound like human talk, and be talk such as human beings would be likely to talk in the given circumstances, and have a discoverable meaning, also a discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject at hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot think of anything more to say." In his writing, he followed his own advice. The other, non-Y2K characteristic of "Tom Sawyer" is that the book spends a fair amount of time on description, atmosphere, and reflection. Given some (but, thankfully, not all) other reviews by the Nickelodeon generation, we might conclude that any text requiring more attention span than Donkey Kong is too much of a challenge. I delight in the intricacies of the English language - even when it includes a few 19th century anachronisms - and relish its use in the hands of a good writer. I am willing to delay the next action scene for a couple of pages of thoughtful narrative, and "Tom Sawyer" gives us plenty. Both of my kids love "Tom Sawyer." They and the other kids like them give me hope for the 21st century.
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Summary: Good read
Review: When I started this book I didn't find it especially good. It was a little to slow and the languagegot on your nerves.The story about a boy who hates school plays hooky and so own. But then things happen which are were similar to you when you were that age so it gets more and more exiting. How tom and his gang wittness a murder or testify in court of law. The charactes are extremly realistic and interresting. This book is a must read for people of all ages.
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Summary: Thomas Sawyer
Review: I think that this is the best book that I have ever read. I reccomend this bood to people who like alot of adventure. It was very exciting. Tom and Huck were always getting into trouble. I liked when tom got to see his own funeral, it is funny and sad at the same time because his aunt was worried sick about him. I also like when his aunt made him paint the fence but he didn't want to so all his friends would come by and he would kind of conn them into painting the fence. He would say like "If this was work would I be doing it" and they would reply "I guess your right" That was funny.
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Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Review: I like all the characters and how Tom always likes to get on his aunt's nerves. It's good to read about a boy living his life and having all sorts of adventures back in those days. I think it's funny that Tom tries to do all these weird rituals. I thought that part where Tom greets this new kid in town by going up to him and saying: "I can lick you" was funny and I also thought that part where Tom was thinking to himself that "he was given specific orders not to ever play play with Huck, so he played with him whenever he got a chance to" was funny. There were a lot of parts in the book I like, I can't decide which is my favorite, probably my favorite part would be where Tom, Huck and Joe had gone off on that deserted island. I pretty much like all of the book, I think that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a good book.
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Summary: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Review: June 2, 2000 "Well... it's both funny, and mean," some people would say that about Tom Sawyer. In takes place in the 1840's in Hannibal, Missouri, where it tells about a teenager (about the age of 12,13), wher he gets in LOTS of trouble. It starts out, with Tom just a normal kid, who teases, and pushes around kids, until he sees Becky Thatcher, the girl of his dreams. He had tons of dreams about her, and once in the story, they got engaged. But soon, when he met up with Huck Finn, they go to the graveyard, where a mysterious thing happens. I said this book, is funny because of what Tom does (pushes kids, grabs hair, etc). And I said this book was mean, because of what happens at the graveyard (read it to find out). I give this book 5 stars, and from a scale of 1-10, I give this a 9.5. So when you're sitting around the house doing nothin', go somewhere, and read The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
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Summary: MUST READ THIS BOOK
Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an ok book because i had to read it in class to pass the seventh grade. I guess i liked the book because it taught me how fun it really would have been without having a TV to watch. Also the book showed me how people used to live back in the day. Another reason i liked the book was because it was almost talking about all the trouble i always get in trouble with my parents.All in all i guess the book was really good.
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