to go on adventures. He lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom also had

two friends named Joe Harper and Huck Finn. Becky Thatcher is Tom's girlfriend and

Injun Joe is the town's thief and murderer. This story took place in the mid-1800s in a

small village in Missouri along the Mississippi River.

The story begins when Aunt Polly has to punish Tom Sawyer for playing hooky from

school. She orders him to white-wash the fence on a Saturday afternoon. Tom was a smart

kid, so when he saw a classmate come along he saw an opportunity to get out of work.

Tom tricked the boy into white-washing the fence for him, and in exchange for the

opportunity to paint the fence, the boy had to "pay" him an apple. Tom tricked other kids

too. They all traded something for the opportunity to white-wash the fence. Tom was

"rich" and the fence was finished in no time. So, Tom went swimming. Aunt Polly was

That night Tom complained about a tooth that was sore. Aunt Polly tied a string to his

tooth and then tied the string to a bedpost. She frightened him with a

this he told the people that Injun Joe was in there they unsealed it and there was Injun

the haunted house. So they went there and when they were upstairs Injun Joe and a

decided to set off to an island in the middle of the Mississippi to get away from it all. They

his guts. Right after he was threw Injun Joe jumped out the window. After that Muff

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)