Tom Sawyer Compare And Contrast Essay

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Compare and contrast Tom Sawyer and Jose
Tom Sawyer and Jose are different in a few ways. One being that Jose is more mature than Tom Sawyer. Jose, boring and hardworking, is always thinking about how his life will be when he gets older, and never does any childish activities like chewing on grass. Jose’s cousin was seen chewing on grass, being childish, and being very energetic throughout the story while Jose was thinking about his work. Tom Sawyer, less mature and more childish, tricks people to get what he wants. Another reason why the two are different is that Jose is more serious than Tom Sawyer, and Tom Sawyer is not serious. Jose can seem serious from the beginning to the end of “Born Worker”. This can be seen by how Jose dresses when he wears jeans and a shirt that kids his age would not wear. …show more content…

Minds thinking, plans arising, the two people come up with plans to get what they want. One similarity between the two people is that the two are crafty because they come up with “get rich schemes”. Although Jose has help to find jobs, he gets most of the money and does the work by himself most of the time. Tom Sawyer found a way to make whitewashing a fence look fun, so others would be jealous and give him possessions to be able to do Tom’s afternoon chore. Another way Tom and Jose are similar is that they both are mean. This can be seen more in Jose but it can also be seen in Tom Sawyer as well. Jose always is thinking mean thoughts about his cousin. He mainly wants his cousin, loud and talkative, to stop talking so he can work. Tom is mean because when he sees Ben, energetic and friendly, walk by he tries to avoid conversation until he comes up with his scheme. Tom also doesn’t want to talk to the boys who are having fun outside around him because he doesn’t want to be made jealous of their freedom to do what they want. This is why I say that Tom Sawyer and Jose are

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