favourite character in the adventure of tom sawyer .
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I fell in love with Tom Sawyer when I first read the book at the age of 8 and never got over it. That probably has a lot to do with why I never married, because men like Tom Sawyer are few and far between in real life.
He was smart, despite his disdain for school. His pranks never really hurt anybody, just tricked them, and if the other boys had been smarter they could have held onto their trinkets. He was kind; where the other boys just saw Huck as some sort of forbidden thrill, Tom was a true friend. When the boys returned from playing pirate to crash their own “funeral,” Tom protested that it wasn’t fair that no one was glad to see Huck, until Aunt Polly hugged him, too. He was brave; both boys visited Muff Potter in jail, but Tom was the one who risked his life by testifying in court that Injun Joe was the real murderer. That prompted many the town to say he’d be President some day, if he wasn’t hanged first. he was romantic and noble; he took the blame for Becky when she tore the page in the schoolmaster’s anatomy book, and forgave her when she confessed that it was Alfred Temple who had spilled the ink in Tom’s spelling book. He was resourceful; he got himself and Becky out of the cave while avoiding Injun Joe. And he figures out where to find the $12,000. Judge Thatcher wants to send him to best law school in the country, and the best military academy. The only thing I couldn’t figure out was where he had managed to find all the novels he seemed to have read, in a small town on what was then the frontier.
Huck has a kind heart, too, and he saves the Widow Douglas, but as an outcast at a very young age, he understandably mostly wants to keep his head down and keep away from people. In Huckleberry Finn and later in Tom Sawyer Detective, Huck measures his own decisions and actions by what he thinks Tom would do. Both boys, of course, have the unfortunate racial attitudes of their time. But the saddest thing about Huck is that he has so absorbed the beliefs of the same society that made him an outcast that when he decides to help Jim escape and find his family, he believes he is committing a sin.
Huck is based on Tom Blankenship, who was not half an orphan, but whose family was from what we would politely term the lower middle class of Hannibal. Becky was based on Mark Twain’s childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins. But all I’ve ever read about Tom is that he was supposed to be a composite of three different boys, and I’ve never read any specific details about who they were. I suspect he was aspirational—the kind of character a young boy growing up in a small town in Missouri in the 1840’s would dream of becoming.