![]() ![]() ![]() But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been “engaged” previously to Amy Lawrence. Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get “engaged” by kissing him. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses consistently, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought “it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises-a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt.” He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. ![]()
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