Why Is Tom Sawyer Good Or Bad

Adventures Can Be Good or Bad
John Muir once said the ¨The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.¨ Just like in the book The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer whenever Tom would go on adventure there would be a good side and bad side of it. Even if there would seem like nothing could go wrong. It's always unexpected because you can't really predict the future. So it's a matter luck. One of the themes that Mark Twain explores in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is adventures can be good and bad. Three examples that support this theme are when Tom goes sailing and is drowned, goes to the caves with Becky and gets lost, and when he goes to the graves and witnesses a murder. One example that implies to adventures can be good

They witness something that they wish they never saw, as Twain explains in the passage, “The two boys flew on and on toward the village, speechless with horror”(67). The boys were frightened from witnessing a murder in the graveyard. It would haunt Tom at night and he would start mumbling about it in his sleep, as Sid would be awake to hear it. Tom and Huck agreed not to tell anyone about the murder, but little did they know that they had the power to determine if Muff Potter would die or not. The murder was done by Injun Joe, while Muff Potter lay unconscious on the ground. The problem was that Muff Potter didn’t know what happened other than his knife being used as a weapon by Injun Joe to kill Doctor Robinson. As Muff Potter was caught drunk in the morning his trial would be held in a week or so. At the very end of the trial, Tom would say “Hesitatingly at first, but Tom warmed to his subject...and as Muff Potter fell, Injun Joe jumped with a knife and”(139). With this information, Tom was able to save Muff Potter’s life and make sure everyone knew that Injun Joe was a bad person and deserved to be punished. Also making Tom a hero and savior, but the end result Tom knew Injun Joe would be out to get his revenge on Tom. If Tom was never to be there Muff Potter would have probably died and would have been a depressing story from then on. With this second example, Twain has provided

Becky’s family plans a village picnic and invite everyone in the town, but she doesn’t want parents to come because she thinks they will ruin everything. Later in the day after the picnic when the parents ask for Tom and Becky one kids blurts out “One young man finally blurted out his fear that they were still in the cave!”(175). They get lost in the caves they don’t have enough food and supplies to survive. Other than their anniversary cake. Also later in the book they realize that Injun Joe and his partner are in the cave with him. Also with one torch and bats everywhere in the cave. Later in the book it explains “Tom the way grown-up people do with wedding cake”(182). With this Becky and Tom get together again and become lovers. They learn to be together and become lovers till they die. Alson once they reunite, Becky tells her father that Tom saved her life when she ripped the book. So Judge Thatcher removed the teacher from his job for beating Tom when he did a noble deed. As Twain also goes through the story Tom hears about the Judge Thatcher triple locking the entrance to the caves. All in all their were multiple adventure showing how the theme is good and bad at the same