Tom Sawyer Changes In Huckleberry Finn

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In the beginning of the book, “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, the reader is introduced to Huck's friend Tom Sawyer. Sawyer is portrayed as an immature boy who fantasizes about occurrences in books he has read coming to life. Sawyer does not change with regard to fantasizing about his readings. Although Tom has a lot of friends, there is one group of people he does not see eye to eye with, African Americans. The story takes place in a time where slavery is rampant, African Americas are seen as a lower class of people. It is not out of the ordinary, or even looked down upon for Tom Sawyer to treat African Americans differently than everyone else. Despite his apparent lack of respect for slaves at the beginning, by then end…show more content…
Tom Sawyer is no exception to this way of thinking, although he is not as bad as some, Sawyer still has a part of him that thinks of saves as lesser people. When Huck and Tom see Jim for the fist time in the novel, "Tom he made a sign to me – kind of a little noise with his mouth – and we went creeping away on our hands and knees. When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun."(PAGE) No child at the time would even think to tie a white man to a tree, but Tom thinks it is all fun and games to trick a slave. Although most likely Tom is not intending to be disrespectful, his actions clearly portray how differently blacks were treated in this era of slavery. By the end of the novel, it is nice to see that Tom is a changed young man when Huck is, “bound to say Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!”(PAGE). Tom Sawyer is helping a slave escape captivity, he is doing a bang up job but nonetheless he is helping an African American. Tom's sense of morality has clearly changed and he is a matured boy in this

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