TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE

The
novel’s author

Tom Sawyer, Detective is a sequel of The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, a novel written by Mark Twain. Mark was an American author and
humorist. Twain started his career by writing light and humorous verse. Later
the writings evolved into the historian of egoism, hypocrisies and murderous
act of mankind. Mark twain helped to create and popularize a distinct and
unique American literature based upon American themes and language. Twain was
expert at rendering the phrase used in informal language in his writings. The
collection of Twain’s is an ongoing process. The novel Tom Sawyer, Detective is
a mysterious murder solving novel that involves stolen diamond and a twin
brother, presumed to be dead for years in the story.

Summary of the novel

Tom Sawyer, Detective is a mysterious murder solving novel.
Along with that it is also a story of jealousy. Here, Tom’s uncle Silas, a
farmer refuses to let a richer and more influential land-owner, Brace Dunlap.
Marrying his daughter, he was forced to take the Jubitar Dunlap, twin brother
of Jake Dunlap who is a burglar. Well, the story of a novel starts with an
imaginative and very mischievous boy Tom Sawyer, who lives with his Aunt Polly
and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town. There during the
school, Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, who was a new girl in town. He
sort of keeps Becky engage with him most of the time. The murder story and
mystery solving begins, when Tom accompanies Huckleberry Fin, the son of the town
drunk, to the graveyard at night to try cure for the warts. There they witness
the murder of young Dr. Robinson by the Native American “half-breed” Injun Joe.
The frightened boys, Tom and Fin swear not to say about anything or talk to
anybody about what they saw. But later on, police captures the wrong guy for
the Robinson’s murder that helps to grow the Tom’s anxiety and guilt. Hence,
this guilt and anxiety lead to the investigation and solutions of mysterious
murders after lots of ups and down in their life. During that course, Fin, Tom
and Huck get rescued from spring fever by a trip to Tom’s Uncle Silas.

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At the end
Being a main character of the novel, it also describes the
journey of a mischievous boy Tom who used to have lazy and freedom appears to
be making responsible decisions at critical moments.    Because Tom was the one to lead him and
friends into increasingly dangerous situations. His different adventures take
him away from society. According to the Twain, he complicates the position of
Tom between childhood and adulthood by criticizing and making more complex
situation in the adult world that Tom is heading towards. He shows that the social
authorities don’t run on own principles and consistency. At the end of the
novel, the mysterious murder is solved by Tom, Fin, Huck, Uncle Silas and Aunt
Sally. The novel is a narrative fun, so it’s fun to enjoy the novel for the
readers.

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