The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a completely romantic book with a hint of comic literature slipped in. Twain made this book to help out people in the time of post Civil War to make most people happy and hopeful for the future since that's what romantic literature is made to do. He made a good effort but, he went overboard with the romanticism.
Twain's attempt to make a pleasing book for the people dealing with all that's going on after the war was okay. The fact that it was romantic literature made the readers happy and the comic literature kept the reader interested and wanting to read more. The problem was though that it was so predictable and truly too much of a utopia. The scene where Tom, Huck, and Joe all run away to become pirates while their caretakers ail over that they are gone. Then the decide to return to their own funeral and somehow everyone forgets that they just ran away and frightened their loved ones to death. They are so happy that they are back so they make everything okay. That would be nice except that's just past the line of a romantic novel and a fantasy book.
It is a comical romance theme like the scene where Injun Joe murders Doc, Tom and Huck are so close they could touch one of them. Somehow Injun Joe or Muff Potter didn't see them. The comic is how there is a conflict, but mainly romantic because in the end, Injun Joe dies. Tom's act of immaturity and innocence makes him the good. Injun Joe or even any other adult is the evil in the literature since to Tom, when someone scolds him for anything they are the worst people in the world. Then he goes on rants about that they would be sorry for yelling at him if he was dead. That shows how immature Tom is.
The fact that Tom got away with everything made it romance and the fact that Injun Joe was a murdering liar made it comic. In the time of depression such a romantic novel was great but, now when everything is fine the "classic" doesn't really appeal to America how it used to.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
The two books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are different in many ways and alike in very few ways also. They are both two kids living in not the best of times. The main difference between them is the fact that that Francie actually goes from innocence to experience when it looks like Tom is just going to stay an innocent little boy forever. That of course isn’t the only difference and similarity but those are the main ones.
They don’t have things going their way. Francie has it much worse than Tom since the environment isn’t half as bad by Tom. Therefore Francie has it rougher which I think is the reason she isn’t innocent but that she’s experienced. Tom on the other hand doesn’t have it too rough but that’s the reason he is able to stay innocent. With hardship comes experience and everything handed to you on a golden platter comes innocence. Tom has many fun adventures with his pals like becoming a pirate and going to an island for a week while Francie’s consisted of getting a Christmas tree thrown at her or going fishing when it’s burning hot outside. There is an obvious difference. Tom gets blamed for everything that goes wrong except Francie is the kid that does everything by the book and would never get blamed. There is a little bit of unfairness there. They both have evil around them. Injun Joe is Tom’s evil since he murdered a man and has stolen from the city and also is plotting unknown on someone and Brooklyn itself is the evil in Francie’s life. There is more evil with Francie than Tom and that’s why she becomes experienced.
They both make it through the hardship but each come out a little different. Francie goes to college and who knows where Tom will end up. Their differences affect their outcome of life. Their differences of course are so broad since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is comedy and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Romantic. So they do have mostly differences but they also have some similarities.
They don’t have things going their way. Francie has it much worse than Tom since the environment isn’t half as bad by Tom. Therefore Francie has it rougher which I think is the reason she isn’t innocent but that she’s experienced. Tom on the other hand doesn’t have it too rough but that’s the reason he is able to stay innocent. With hardship comes experience and everything handed to you on a golden platter comes innocence. Tom has many fun adventures with his pals like becoming a pirate and going to an island for a week while Francie’s consisted of getting a Christmas tree thrown at her or going fishing when it’s burning hot outside. There is an obvious difference. Tom gets blamed for everything that goes wrong except Francie is the kid that does everything by the book and would never get blamed. There is a little bit of unfairness there. They both have evil around them. Injun Joe is Tom’s evil since he murdered a man and has stolen from the city and also is plotting unknown on someone and Brooklyn itself is the evil in Francie’s life. There is more evil with Francie than Tom and that’s why she becomes experienced.
They both make it through the hardship but each come out a little different. Francie goes to college and who knows where Tom will end up. Their differences affect their outcome of life. Their differences of course are so broad since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is comedy and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Romantic. So they do have mostly differences but they also have some similarities.
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