Essays on the realistic hero of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer civilized life and escapes these constraints by playing pranks. The character, Tom, is presented as a realistic and convincing boy. He is kind and loving, but also cruel, stupid and hypocritical. As the story progresses, Tom shows signs of maturity. The story of Tom Sawyer, just like TOM being a realistic character, is an instructive story for adults and children. Tom is shown, throughout the story, as a typical boy of his time. He has a loving and happy home, with his devoted Aunt Polly to care for him. He is limited by his family routine of prayers, meals, chores, bedtime, ETCTERA, but when his daily life becomes TOO boring, he has the river and the woods nearby, where he can escape. But Tom is not the village's "model boy". He plays boyish pranks on Aunt Polly, Sid, his friends and everyone in town. He steals, lies, skips school, fights and goes swimming in secret, but he's a normal boy, which is what normal boys do at his age. Tom is an imaginative boy who has a good knowledge of human behavior and knows how to use it. He continually outwits his Aunt Polly and also persuades other boys to do his work for him, without them even knowing of his deception. An example of this is the whitewashing scene, when his Aunt Polly makes him whitewash the outside fence before he is allowed to play. He slyly convinces the first boy by saying "...I don't see why it shouldn't please. Does a boy have the chance to whitewash a fence every day?" (21) With this clever use of words, he manipulates the boy into whitewashing the fence, causing other people to also join in helping him. In the end, Tom made a nice profit and managed to launder without actually doing it. Besides being known as a strong boy, Tom also has fears. He is afraid, at several points in the book, of being hurt by Injun Joe, of starving to death with Becky in the cave, of witchcraft, and of dying during the storm while suffering from measles..

Essay / Essays on the realistic hero of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer civilized life and escapes these constraints by playing pranks. The character, Tom, is presented as a realistic and convincing boy. He is kind and loving, but also cruel, stupid and hypocritical. As the story progresses, Tom shows signs of maturity. The story of Tom Sawyer, just like TOM being a realistic character, is an instructive story for adults and children. Tom is shown, throughout the story, as a typical boy of his time. He has a loving and happy home, with his devoted Aunt Polly to care for him. He is limited by his family routine of prayers, meals, chores, bedtime, ETCTERA, but when his daily life becomes TOO boring, he has the river and the woods nearby, where he can escape. But Tom is not the village's "model boy". He plays boyish pranks on Aunt Polly, Sid, his friends and everyone in town. He steals, lies, skips school, fights and goes swimming in secret, but he's a normal boy, which is what normal boys do at his age. Tom is an imaginative boy who has a good knowledge of human behavior and knows how to use it. He continually outwits his Aunt Polly and also persuades other boys to do his work for him, without them even knowing of his deception. An example of this is the whitewashing scene, when his Aunt Polly makes him whitewash the outside fence before he is allowed to play. He slyly convinces the first boy by saying "...I don't see why it shouldn't please. Does a boy have the chance to whitewash a fence every day?" (21) With this clever use of words, he manipulates the boy into whitewashing the fence, causing other people to also join in helping him. In the end, Tom made a nice profit and managed to launder without actually doing it. Besides being known as a strong boy, Tom also has fears. He is afraid, at several points in the book, of being hurt by Injun Joe, of starving to death with Becky in the cave, of witchcraft, and of dying during the storm while suffering from measles..

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