" The Advanture of Tom Sawyer"

Book report

Lina hidayatus sholihah

1. Book Title

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

2. Theme

A mischievous boy with his many adventures.

3. Plot Summary

An imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lived with his Aunt Polly and his cousin, Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. One day he was playing hooky that finally he got punishment from his aunty to whitewash the fence. He was actually disappointed with this but he used benefit of this moment to his companions.

Tom fell in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get “engaged” to him. Their romance collapses when she knows that Tom has been “engaged” before—to a girl named Amy Lawrence. Even though Tom has been clarified to her but she has already heartbreak. The day after at the midnight Tom and Huck went to graveyard and suddenly they saw three figures from the gloom. They are Injun Joe, Muff Potter and Dr. Robinson. They wanted to rob the grave under the guidance of Dr. Robinson. They leave the writing saying that they won’t tell to others about this secret.

To forget the accident that he found, he left school and decided to be a pirate with his pals, Huck and Joe to go to Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi. They fully enjoyed their journey besides the whole people in his house worried about them. They began feel homesick but Tom convinced them and made a plan that they would stay at that Island after all. In the village there were three funerals of them because they thing that three of them have disappeared but finally they come to their own funeral and made Aunt Polly and rest of people there relieved.

Back to school, Tom decide to forget Becky as if he didn’t meet her and back to Amy Lawrence. Becky invited her friends but Tom and Amy. She has a special relation with Alfred who was smart and perfect boy in that school. Becky accidentally tore a book with ink in the schoolmaster’s book, but Tom, out of love, pretends he did it and takes the punishment for her. She is grateful and their fighting stops.

After all, he remembered Muff potter’s case, he tried to tell the truth that the murder was not Potter but Injon joe. Potter has freed after Injon Joe escaped. Tom and Huck go looking for buried treasure. Instead, they find Injun Joe again. Becky returns to town, and all the children (except Huck) go on a picnic to McDougal's Cave. While exploring, Tom and Becky get lost and left behind. When they finally saved and found Injun Joe was dead the family felt happy. Luckily they found Injun Joe’s treasure. Huck has a hard time living under Widow Douglas's roof and runs away. Tom convinces him to return and become a part of respectable society with the promise that they will start a dangerous gang of robbers. Huck agrees, and they go back to the village.

4. characters and Characterization

o Round Characters

· Tom Sawyer was a tricky boy who always made a trouble around his environment but sometimes he behaved kindly. It’s proven from his aunt’s statement s “Hasn’t Tom sawyer play tricks enough on me?” and “Tom wasn’t really a bad boy. He never meant no harm and he was the best-hearted child that ever was!”

o Flat Characters

· Muff Potter was a hopeless drunk and friend of Injun Joe. It’s proven in the dialogue “

· Joe harper was Tom’s pal who would have an adventure together which becomes a pirate in the Jackson’s Island with Tom and Huck. It’s proven in the dialogue

· Huckelberry finn was the son of town drunk who always used bad language and wasted his days away and also he was a pal of tom who always accompany his adventure. It’s proven in the dialogue :

Tom : “I’m scared, Huck. What do you reckon will come of all this?”

Huck : “we better keep still, “ “Tom we got to swear to keep mum!”

· Amy Lawrence was Tom’s old love who actually wanted to be married and she was a faithful girl. It’s proven in the statement : Amy Lawrence looked proud and glad for Tom but he wouldn’t look at her.

· Aunt Polly was Tom’s aunt and his guardian. She was a simple, kindhearted woman who struggles to balance her love for her nephew with her duty to discipline him. It’s proven in the dialogue “I ’am afraid I’ve spoiled him, but he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing. I just ain’t got the heart to lash him.”

· Becky Thatcher was Tom’s lovely girl, blue-eyed creature and she has two long, yellow braids but she was cool with tom’s flatteries. Its proven when tom showed off himself in front of Becky but she was just said “nothing”.

· Dr. Robinson was a doctor who hires Injun Joe and Muff Potter to dig up Hoss Williams’s grave because he wants to use the corpse for medical experiments. It’s proven in the dialogue “we’ll need more money to finish this job,” Injun Joe said to Dr. Robinson.

· Injun Joe was a violent, villainous man who commits murder and becomes a robber. He was leaned by Dr. Robinson to rob the grave. It’s proven in the dialogue ““we’ll need more money to finish this job,” Injun Joe said to Dr. Robinson.

· The Widow Douglas was a kind widow who has more attention to Huck because she thinks of poor Huck whom no one beside him furthermore, she wants to care of him sincerely. It’s proven in the dialogue “Widow Douglas had been worried about poor Huck. She was thinking how he didn’t have anybody and neither did she. Now she announced that she wanted to give Huck a home.”

o Protagonist

· Aunt Polly

· Sid

· Muff Potter

· Becky Thatcher

o Antagonist

· Injun Joe

· Dr. Robinson

5. Setting

Time in his youth

Place in the cave and graveyard in a small town Mississippi river

6. Style

The style of this novel is using a middle level because the language of this story is easy to understand.

7. Point of View

The point of view of this novel is a third-person narrative. Because the narrator use pronoun “He” when represent to “Tom”.

8. Moral value

When a boy or teens has felt many adventures, he will feel satisfied with what he did or perhaps he would behave differently than before. To find many treasure, to be a pirate with doing great journey in the Jackson’s Island and to witness a murder in the graveyard are not normally experienced by boy at those ages. Tom, who has gotten many adventures in his age, He may take good side by caring more to others than to himself. In other hand, He finds himself in predicaments in which he must put his concern for others above his concern for himself, such as when he takes Becky’s punishment and when he testifies at Injun Joe’s trial. As Tom begins to take initiative to help others instead of himself, he shows his increasing maturity, competence, and moral integrity.