Reading this book with Evan has been an interesting experience. He can't figure out the main character. He disapproves of Tom's fighting, his naughtiness and his lying. And who in his right mind would elect to run away from a very nice home to spend several days and nights roughing it on an island, all the while letting the folks back home think he was dead?
Last night we read Chapter 25, which begins thus;
"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
Evan's response?
"Not me!"
The one aspect of the book that he doesn't seem to have much trouble identifying with is Tom's affection for Becky Thatcher. It would seem I'm rearing a lover, not a fighter. I'm okay with that.
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Tom Sawyer was one of my favorite books for a time, but when I was about thirteen. He's not a model young boy by the end of the book, but he does learn some lessons along the way.
He does learn some good lessons, Barb, and I find him to be a charming and endearing character. Very much a Romantic in contrast to Huck the Realist. And he's a book lover, too!
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