Tom Sawyer Research Paper

What makes a person romantic? Tom Sawyer is the quixotic book worm in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Tom is a romantic because he is adventurous, he's a dreamer, and he is impractical.

To begin with, Tom proves that he is adventurous when he volunteers to go with hook and break Jim out of captivity. “‘... there's a nigger here that I'm a-trying to steal out of slavery…’ ‘I'll help you steal him…’ ‘...I couldn't believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” (p.225). Huck is astonished by Tom when he says that he would like to help steal Jim. This shows that Tom is adventurous and is going outside of his comfort zone. Tom is also quite adventurous when he sneaks out of his home to pick up Huck, so they can go to their gang’s meeting. “I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me’” (p.4). It may be surprising for Tom to sneak out because he “was respectable and well brung up; and had character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and was bright…” (p.233).

Next, Tom is a dreamer when he decides to create a band of robbers called “Tom Sawyer's gang”, and creates an oath that must be obeyed. “So Tom got out a sheet of paper… and read it. It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never did

Tom has these traits because he has read about people living these events and he wants to experience them. Where would the world be without dreamers? There wouldn't be people to dream up pieces of art, music, and social media sources. Now, where would Huck be without Tom? On Huck’s entire trip, he would always think, “what would Tom do?” He is very influential over Huck, maybe even an inspiration to him, as is art to the world and its viewers. Even though Tom overcomplicates things sometimes, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn wouldn't be the same without