The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides.
Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives lickings from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a tattle-tale.
As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get engaged by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been engaged previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.
Excerpt:
TOM!
No answer.
TOM!
No answer.
What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for style, not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
I never did see the beat of that boy! The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn conquer the world.
Mississippi River, 1840’s. Two young little rascals get together after school. Hijinks ensue on every turn. Pranks, adventures, fence painting, murder.
An innocent novel. An immortal classic.
Classics are often hard to read, but this one was overall fairly enjoyable and easy to read.
Still remaining, the movie (1938).
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PERSONAL NOTE: I wish there was more Tom and Becky.
[1876] [244p] [Classic] [Recommendable] [Easy to read] [Iconic fence painting] [Plentiful misfchief]
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Tom Sawyer y Huckleberry Finn conquistan el mundo.
Río Mississippi, 1840. Dos pequeños jóvenes bribones se juntan a la salida de la escuela. Sobrevienen travesuras en cada esquina. Bromas, aventuras, pintadas de cerca, asesinato.
Una inocente novela. Un clásico inmortal.
Los clásicos son a veces difíciles de leer, pero éste fue dentro de todo bastante disfrutable y fácil de leer.
Todavía pendiente, la película (1938).
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NOTA PERSONAL: Me quedaron ganas de más Tom y Becky.
[1876] [244p] [Clásico] [Recomendable] [Fácil de leer] [Icónica pintada de cerca] [Abundantes travesuras]
----------------------------------------------- English Update All we need now is a lost manuscript by Twain to be found by some lawyer with the story being about an adult Tom Sawyer and this book being the one the editor forced Twain to write. I know you are probably thinking that is taking Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman to far, but what if that was just the beginning of a new initiative from publishers. It could be the latest fashion now no-one is interested in vampires any more?
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What happened to Tom after he grew up was asked in a review by a friend. Thinking back on the times, his character and the author, I've come up with three possible ideas.
1. He became a bank manager and magistrate in a very small town. He married Becky and both put on a lot of weight. They had no children but three yappy toy spaniels whom they doted on. Mas Thomas Sawyer allowed no leeway with naughty boys and the cane was much in use.
2. Tom with Huck and Jim found a treasure trove and were given a big reward. Aunt Polly invested it until Tom was 21. Tom, Huck and Jim bought a steamboat together, converted it into a casino and plyed the Mississipi offering Black Jack and Jack Daniels at every stop.
3. At 18, Tom ran away to New Orleans and took up with a beautiful Creole woman with pale coffee skin and became a preacher in a loudly charismatic church. He and his wife had a whole brood of multi-coloured kids whom they named for the virtues, Abstinence, Doughty, Chastity, Patience, Industrious and Worship. In later life he met Marie Laveau and went to the dark side, a confirmed believer in Voodoo.
Or... English I was five and a half years old when my mother gave me The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a New Year's gift (she is a literature teacher, and I have been reading novels since the tender age of four or so, and so it seemed appropriate).
Being a diligent and serious¹ child (neither of those qualities have stuck with me, unfortunately), I opened it to page 1 and started reading. I even took it with me to kindergarten, where other kids were learning letters and I was mercifully allowed to read hefty tomes, having obviously achieved full literacy by that point.
¹Me (age 5) and Mom. The diligent seriousness is *all over* this picture.
This book initially left me quite confused, but I was undeterred - after all, the world was a confusing place, full of adults and rules and great books - even those without pictures. (And I was very proud to own books without pictures, after all). But his one was just too strange - its beginning did not quite fit with the rest of the quite fun story - it was odd and dry and incomprehensible for the first 40 pages or so, and it even was about some other guy (Samuel Clemens?) who was not Tom Sawyer.
A few years later I reread my early childhood favorite (I probably reached a ripe old age of eight or so, still diligent but a bit less serious already). It was then that I figured out what seemed strange about the beginning of this book when I was five.
You see, I diligently slogged my way through the most boring academic foreword, assuming that was the first chapter. What amazes me that I managed to stay awake through it. Good job, five-year-old me! Excellent preparation for that painfully boring biochemistry course a couple of decades later!
After that foreword, slogging through any classic was a comparative breeze. Yes, I'm looking at you, War and Peace! You know what you did, you endless tome.Also, as it turns out, when you include two characters named Joe in one book (Injun Joe and Tom's classmate Joe Harper) that can cause a certain amount of confusion to a five-year-old who assumes they have to be the same person and struggles really hard to reconcile their seemingly conflicting characters. And, as a side note, I have always been disappointed at Tom Sawyer tricking his friends to do the infamous fence whitewashing. A *real* kid knows after all that painting stuff is fun. Five-year-old me was a bit disapproving of the silliness.
I have told bits and pieces of this book to my friends on the playground, while dangling from the monkey bars or building sandcastles (in a sandbox, that in retrospect I suspect was used by the neighborhood stray cats as a litterbox - but I guess you have to develop immunity to germs somehow). We may have planned an escape to an island in a true Tom Sawyer fashion, but the idea fizzled. After all, we did not have an island nearby, which was a problem. Also, we may have got distracted by the afternoon cartoons.
Someday, I just may have to leave this book within a reach of my future hypothetical daughter - as long as I make sure it does not come with a long-winded boring introduction. English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #1), Mark Twain
Thomas Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).
Tom Sawyer, an orphan, lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri sometime in the 1840's. A fun-loving boy, Tom skips school to go swimming and is made to whitewash his aunt's fence for the entirety of the next day, Saturday, as punishment.
In one of the most famous scenes in American literature, Tom cleverly persuades the various neighborhood children to trade him small trinkets and treasures for the privilege of doing his tedious work, using reverse psychology to convince them it is an enjoyable activity.
Tom later trades the trinkets with other students for various denominations of tickets, obtained at the local Sunday school for memorizing verses of Scripture; he cashes these in to the minister in order to win a much-coveted Bible offered to studious children as a prize, despite being one of the worst students in the Sunday school and knowing almost nothing of Scripture, eliciting envy from the students and a mixture of pride and shock from the adults.
Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town and the daughter of a prominent judge. Tom wins the admiration of the judge in church by obtaining the Bible as a prize, but reveals his ignorance when he cannot answer basic questions about Scripture.
Tom pursues Becky, eventually persuading her to get engaged by kissing him. However, their romance soon collapses when she learns that Tom had been previously engaged to another schoolgirl, Amy Lawrence, and that Becky was not his first girlfriend.
عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «تام سایر»؛ «توم سایر»؛ «ماجراهای تام سایر»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه فوریه سال 1981میلادی
عنوان: تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: محمدرضا جعفری؛ تهران، امیرکبیر - کتابهای طلائی - شماره 52، چاپ سوم 1354؛ در 36ص؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 19م
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر (متن کوتاه شده)؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: جعفر مدرس صادقی؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، کتاب مریم، 1373؛ در 158ص؛ شابک9643050696؛ عنوان دیگر توم سایر؛چاپ سوم 1380؛ چاپ چهارم 1388؛ در 118ص؛
عنوان: تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: سودابه زرکف؛ تهران، آیینه، 1395؛ در 176ص؛ شابک9786008098119؛
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: داود سالک؛ تهران، معیار علم، 1386؛ در 272ص؛ شابک9789646651852؛
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر (متن کوتاه شده)؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: محسن سلیمانی؛ تهران، سوره، 1377؛ در 167ص؛ مصور
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: مریم طیبی؛ ویراستار: سیدامیرمحمد آزادی نائینی، تهران، آتون کتاب، 1395؛ در 456ص؛ شابک 9786008388159؛
مترجمین دیگر خانمها و آقایان: مهدی علوی در 160ص؛ احمد کسایی پور در 410ص؛ کیومرث پارسای در 322ص؛ فاطمه امینی 311ص؛ سپهر شهلایی در 120ص؛ شایسته ابراهیمی در 71ص؛ لیلا سبحانی در 212ص؛ غزاله ابراهیمی در 238ص؛ مریم یعقوبی در 32ص؛ و ....؛
تام نماینده ی دنیای شگفت انگیز، و بی دغدغه ی پسرهای نوجوان، پیش از جنگ داخلی آمریکاست؛ «تام» نیز همانند بسیاری از پسرهای آن زمان، بیشتر دوست دارد پابرهنه راه برود؛ بهترین دوستانش «جو هارپر» و «هاکلبری فین» هستند؛ در رمان «ماجراهای تام سایر»، او به یکی از همکلاسیهای خود، به نام «ربه کا (بکی) تاچر»، دل میبندد؛ او با برادر ناتنیش «سید»، دخترخاله اش «مری»، و «خاله پولی»، در شهر خیالی «سن پترزبورگ»، در ایالت «میسوری» زندگی میکند؛ «تام» خاله ی دیگری هم به نام «سالی» دارد؛ که در شهر «پایکزویل»، پایین رود «می.سی.سی.پی» هستند؛ مادر «تام (خواهر خاله پولی)»، از دنیا رفته است؛ یک شب «تام» و دوست صمیمیش «هاک»، در پی یک ماجراجویی، به قبرستان میروند، و به طور تصادفی، شاهد قتل «دکتر رابینسون» میشون��؛ آنها سوگند میخورند، که راز آن شب را، هرگزی برملا نکنند؛ «ماف پاتر» از اهالی شهر، که دائم الخمر است، با توطئه چینی «جو سرخپوسته»، به اتهام قتل دستگیر میشود؛ اما بچه ها میدانند «ماف پاتر» بیگناه است و ...؛
مارک توین (تواین)؛ در مقدمه ی این کتاب مینویسند: (بیشتر ماجراهایی که در این کتاب ثبت شده اند، در واقعیت اتفاق افتاده اند؛ یکی دوتا، تجربه ی شخصی خود من بوده، بقیه ماجراهایی که، برای پسرهای همکلاسی من رخ داده اند؛ شخصیت «هاکلبری فین» از یک آدم واقعی گرفته شده، «تام سایر» هم همینطور، ولی نه از یک نفر؛ «تام» ترکیبی از ویژگیها و خلق و خوی سه پسربچه است، که من میشناختم، در نتیجه از نظر ساخت، شخصیتی چند وجهی هست.)؛ پایان نقل
نقل نمونه متن تام سایر: (بالاخره روز شنبه شد؛ تابستان بود و دنیا درخشان و شاداب و سرشار از زندگی. در دلها ترانه بود و در چهره ها شادی و در گامها جهش؛ درختان اقاقیا شکوفه داده بودند، و عطر شکوفه هایشان هوا را پر کرده بود؛ تپه ی کاردیف در بالای دهکده از گیاهان سرسبز پوشیده شده بود و آن قدر دور بود که به نظر سرزمین خوش و رویایی و آرام و وسوسه انگیزی میآمد
در همین موقع، سر و کله ی «تام» با سطلی پر از دوغاب گچ و قلم موی دسته بلندی در پیاده روی جلوی نرده پیدا شد؛ بعد نرده ی چوبی را ورانداز کرد، و شادی از صورتش محو شد، و غم تمام وجودش را گرفت؛ آخر، نرده ی چوبی سی متر طول، و چند پا عرض داشت؛ زندگی به نظرش بیهوده آمد با بودن همچون باری سنگین
آهی کشید، و قلم مویش را در سطل فرو برد، و آن را به نرده کشید؛ چند بار اینکار را تکرار کرد؛ بعد نوار باریک و کوچکی را، که رنگ سفید مالیده بود، با آن همه جای دیگر نرده، که مثل قاره ای رنگ نخورده بود، مقایسه کرد، و دلسرد و ناامید شد، و روی کنده ی درختی نشست)؛ پایان نقل
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 23/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 05/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (Mark Twain) in 1876, is a most engaging children’s book. It describes an American boy’s childhood in a rural Southern town in the 19th century. I read this many years ago, and always promised myself that I’d read it again, and you know something? It didn’t disappoint. There’s a reason that it’s a classic. Just lovely. English
So, my daughter just started reading Tom Sawyer for the very first time, and I am jealous of her!
First of all, she can read it in original, while I read it in translation as a child. Second, I wish I could still have that immediate, surprised response to the silly situations. About every five minutes, she comes into my room, reading out loud some funny quotes, making the scenes come alive in my memory again. The fight between the two boys threatening with their fake big brothers, followed by the famous selling of the honour to take over Tom's Saturday chore -the fence white washing, and so on, and so on. All that humorous content is being quoted in a voice broken by giggles. Her favourite new expression is the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, as used in the context of the deadly serious war games that Tom Sawyer engages in.
She's completely mesmerised, and she hasn't even got to the scary parts yet, or to the budding love affair.
There is magic in a children's classic that can make mothers and daughters laugh together at the silliness of naughty boys, and at the fact that very little has changed in the dynamics of childhood friendships, despite the time that has passed since the novel was written.
It has just the right mix of exotic, historical appeal and universal human behaviour to make a perfect introduction into world literature. English
عن مغامرات الطفل الشقي توم سوير وأصدقاءه
The adventures of naughty little boy, Tom Sawyer and his friends.
You won't believe it wrote 150 years ago,
as Mark Twain's procedure is simple and fluid.
He do not show off with language techniques or dictionary's vocabulary.
just adventures and events, no silly metaphors
an enjoyable novel that i have read at one session
On starting reading Huckleberry Finn, I knew that it was the second part of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, so I went back to the first part, since I have a spare time
لن تصدق أن هذه الرواية كتبت قبل 150 عام تقريباً
فأسلوب مارك توين سهل سلس
ولا يستخدم تلك الأساليب اللغوية التي تقوم على الاستعراض بمدى إلمام الكاتب بمفردات القاموس
مغامرات وأحداث، لا استعراض للتشبيهات اللفظية،
رواية مسلية جدا، أنا قرأتها في قعده واحدة تقريباً.
عندما بدأت في قراءة مغامرات هاكلبري فين علمت أنها إنما كانت تعد الجزء الثاني لمغامرات توم سوير، فاستحسنت أن أبدأ بقراءة الجزء الأول مادام لدي المتسع من الوقت.
وهذه هي آخر كلمات الجزء الأول قبل أن يخطر له كتابة جزء تاني عن صديق بطل الجزء الأول، فلم يعط الجزء الأول نهاية لعله يلقانا ثانية:
English My coworker and my boyfriend made fun of me when I was reading this because apparently it's written for children and they both read it when younger. I have nothing to say in my defense, I didn't know I don't know most things if that isn't obvious by now. On a related note I probably would have enjoyed this more when younger. It wasn't bad, it was okay but I wasn't really itching to keep reading it and didn't have that usual urge that I get when reading a really enjoyable book to give up even going to the bathroom in favor of continuing to read. I did really enjoy at the end though when Huck runs away and then Tom finds him and Huck talks about how he's just not cut out for being rich and polite society like same Huck. Tom tricking people into painting the fence for him was also A+. Anyway now I can pretend to be somewhat cultured since I finally read some Mark Twain which is what clearly matters the most here. English Well, the Show Me State showed me.
Showed me how you do it. How you write stories so colorfully and so well-crafted, you could almost cry from reading them.
Paulette Jiles took me all over the state of Missouri this week, in her 2002 publication of Enemy Women, a historical fiction novel that takes place in 1864, and then Mark Twain took my daughters and me to St. Petersburg, Missouri, to the real world of 1876.
And what's in that world of 1876 Missouri?
Well. . . riverboats, wagons, poor white boys, overprotective aunts, pretty girls, adventures in caves. . . and talk of orgies, knives, guns, pipe smoking, and a frequent use of the “N” word.
As the narrator of this novel to my daughters, these qualities necessitated an immediate discussion at the start of the book. We needed to talk about this, before we went any further in this read.
Here's the deal: I don't use the “N” word, and I don't hang out with people who do.
I made my boundary clear right as we started. I am clever enough to read ahead and say what needs to be said without making myself uncomfortable by using language that twists my intestines.
However, I made something else clear to my girls: just because an author depicts their characters authentically does not make them a racist, nor does it make the book racist.
My children have a writer for a mother. They know more than they want to know about the writing process, and they've also watched their mother eavesdrop on more than her fair share of conversations. They know by now how obsessed I am with authentic dialogue. I can't stand any writer sugar-coating or contriving what they hear.
But, as a mother, would I have enjoyed either of my girls reading the “N” word, over and over again, in this book?
No.
As the narrator and the mom, I chose to leave out all references to the “N” word, skip over the boys' curiosity about “orgies” and leave out about half of the talk about smoking.
And focus on the good.
The best parts for me: watching my daughters laugh at what a drama queen Tom Sawyer is, and being reminded of how many “death scenes” Tom conjures up in his mind, so he may convince himself that he's a good person, when he visualizes how many people will mourn him! I loved watching my girls cover up their faces in disgust when Tom, Huck and Joe stripped down to their birthday suits on the island, doing handstands and sword fights and whatnot. I couldn't help but be reminded of Out Stealing Horses. My middle child mumbled, from behind the hands covering her face, “boys are so repulsive.”
Yes, this is a boy's world for sure. These barefooted boys with the ringworm on their scalps and rings of dirt around their necks are a bunch of river rats.
But I must give Mr. Twain the credit he deserves here, for bringing these authentic characters to life, though I do understand the difficulty we face reading some of these classics. They are snapshots of how people behaved (how some people still behave), and sometimes those are painful reminders. English He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though--and loathed him.
No, his mind is not for rent
To any god or government.
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren’t permanent –
But change is
Well, what is there to say about this one? It's one of those novels that is so prominent in pop culture that even if you have not read it you likely know scenes from it (Tom convincing others to paint a fence has been recreated and parodied how many times?). It’s a book that modern readers know going into it pretty much exactly what they're getting. As such I was very unsurprised that I liked it.
More surprising is that I actually hadn't read it already. I knew many people who were assigned this in classes and indeed I was assigned a Twain novel back in Highschool… but it was Huckleberry Finn, not this one (which was actually one of three novels I remember actually really liking of my assigned reading).
Now I must say, there is something about this one I did not expect. Many reviewers who read this later in life say that they wished they would have read it when they were a kid as they think they would have liked it more. I will be the voice against this. While the book was obviously intended for a younger audience and indeed can be read by them with possible great delight, I'm glad I read it in my thirties rather than pre-teen years. Why? Because Mark Twain is a cynical curmudgeon and I would not have appreciated that anywhere near as much in my younger days. The best parts of this book are not Tom and Huck's antics, they are the scenes where Twain just describes things in his conversational smartass way.
Some of my favorite examples:
The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery. The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was, now. It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country.
Or take for example another great moment after Tom recovers from the measles:
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. He was very ill, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. There had been a “revival,” and everybody had “got religion,” not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of tracts. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.
There's such a cynical and sarcastic nature that Twain, not any of his quirky side characters of leads, is the most entertaining character of the book. Would I have appreciated this commentary as a kid? Maybe some of it, but nowhere near as much as I appreciate it now.
Overall this was a fun little classic to spend some time with. I'm glad I finally got around to reading it, and am looking forward to reading more Twain with my own cynical eyes. 4/5 stars English
