Tone:
from Mark Twain’s view as a child/early life
 When Twain was 11, his father died
 When Twain’s brother was working on a steam boat, the
steam boat exploded killing Twain’s brother
 Twain claimed he had seen this in a dream a month
before
 While Twain’s childhood/early life might seem tragic,
they were quite adventurous too (he had travled quite a
bit in his early years to New York City, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, and Cincinnati)
 Twain’s views were likely still very comical as shown in
his young man/mid life despite the sad things that had
occurred in his childhood
Tone:
from Mark Twain’s view as a young man
 Mark Twain’s view was much more comical than his
later works
 Most of his works were written in this time period
 Twain was a great speaker that often spoke very
humorous things, almost a “stand up comedian”
 We can assume that his early years would invlove a
much more comical point of view, far more humorous
than his later years
Tone:
from Mark Twain’s point of view as an old man
 During Twain’s last 20 years, his perspective was
much more grim (especially of the human race)
 His much more grim point of view seemed to be
sparked by a very deep depression caused by his
daughter Susy dying of meningitis
 “There has never been a just one, never an
honorable one — on the part of the instigator
of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this
rule will never change in so many as half a dozen
instances.” -The Mysterious Stranger by Mark
Twain
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Mood:
the suspenseful moments
 Injun Joe, the doctor, Muff Potter, Huck, Tom were in
the grave yard (Huck and Tom witnessed the murder of
the doctor)
 Tom had told the town who the true murderer was
(Injun Joe) with the murderer in the same room
 Injun Joe, Tom, and Becky were in the cave
 When Tom and Huck were hiding upstairs in the
abandoned house with Injun Joe and the “old, deaf,
dumb Spaniard” downstairs (at this point, Injun Joe
knew that only Tom had known and told everybody the
truth)
Mood:
The laughable moments
 (not in chronological order)
 When Tom and Huck speak of witches, believing that was the
source of any misfortunes that befell them in this journey
 Tom and Huck dug around under tons of old trees at midnight to
look for treasure
 Tom buried a marble believing that if he said some words over it,
all his other lost marbles would flock to the one Tom buried.
When Tom unearthed the burred marble and none of the lost
marbles around it, he came to the “logical” conclusion that a
witch must have put a curse on them because a certain beetle
crawled out of the ground and made a noise
 One of the most memorable moments is when Tom tricked all the
kids in town into trading their processions to paint a fence for
Tom
Mood:
the overall
 Overall it was very humorous with enough suspense to
propel you forward to the next page
 The fact that the words they used and phrases they
used to describe the simplest thing were always making
you too curious to take a rest at it
 Tom Sawyer was like a look into the past, a perfect time
machine of many yesterdays ago
 Overall it was very intriguing, comical, suspenseful,
and interesting with enough of the past to make you
think of how silly the past must have been or how
meanings have changed; the look at the past makes you
open your eyes
 Works Cited:
 http://toto.lib.unca.edu/sr_papers/literature_sr/srliterature_2009/arg
hiere_bryce.pdf
 "Mark Twain - Wikiquote." Wikiquote. Project Gutenberg, n.d. Web. 18
Jan. 2012. <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
 "Norman Rockwell’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Norman
Rockwell Museum." Norman Rockwell Museum | The Home for
American Illustration.. Version 1936. Norman Rockwell Museum, 1 Jan.
2012. Web. 18 Jan. 2012. <http://www.nrm.org/2009/10/normanrockwells-tom-sawyer-and-huckleberry-finn/>.
 Twain, Mark . The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York : Bantam,
1981. Print
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