Tom Sawyer: a Case of Romanticism Going Overboard

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.