If you know me very well, you know that I love Young Adult literature. I also like to read the classics. To satiate my hunger for both, I picked up one that I was saldy never assigned to read, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Living so close to Hanibal, I have read the companion The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn every year for the last 10 years, but I was never read the first.
Summary
Tom Sawyer, a young orphan boy, living with his Aunt Polly in St. Petersburg (Hanibal), Missouri, is a very mischieveous character. This book follows his daily adventures from whitewashing his aunt's fence to getting lost in the cave with Becky Thatcher (his love interest).
My Criticisms
I have none. I love Tom! Even in Huck Finn, I wish that Tom had more of a role. I love the fact that he is educated enough to be dangerous. He starts the book a bad boy, and he finishes the book much the same way.
I love the wit, humor and satire that has become Twain. It comes through in this book so well. I find the subtle humor in this book easier to understand, and I wonder if we are not doing our students a huge disservice by not making them read this first. So much of the humor and satire is lost on students in Huck Finn.
Overall
Take an afternoon to read this book, if for no other reason to remember your own childhood adventures and mischief.
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