Tom Sawyer Rhetorical Analysis
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In the second chapter of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the author creates Tom, an archetypal character that the reader personally identifies with. Mark Twain applies metaphors and similes in his classical story so that the reader better understands and sympathizes with Tom’s plot. The first paragraph of this story opens on a “bright and fresh(1)” Saturday morning, but then the second paragraph focuses on a child a bit less cheerful. Tom has been told by Aunt Polly to whitewash the fence and so, “He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit…Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden (1).” These metaphors implant a deep sympathy for the young child who must