All 43 Uses of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago CHAPTER I. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.†
Chpt 1 *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer = Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.†
Chpt 1Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
- I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight.†
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- Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.†
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- Tom says: "Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang.†
Chpt 2
- "Well, hain't he got a father?" says Tom Sawyer.†
Chpt 2
- stealing cattle and such things ain't robbery; it's burglary," says Tom Sawyer.†
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- Oh, that's all very fine to SAY, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them?†
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- They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.†
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- Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.†
Chpt 3
- I didn't see no di'monds, and I told Tom Sawyer so.†
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- Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.†
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- So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies.†
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- I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches.†
Chpt 7
- Nobody could spread himself like Tom Sawyer in such a thing as that.†
Chpt 7
- Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more.†
Chpt 8
- He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had.†
Chpt 8
- She told about me and Tom Sawyer finding the six thousand dollars (only she got it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was murdered.†
Chpt 11
- Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing?†
Chpt 12
- I wish Tom Sawyer WAS here.†
Chpt 12
- I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.†
Chpt 12
- I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat—I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself.†
Chpt 28
- Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd GOT to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was.†
Chpt 31
- It's TOM SAWYER!†
Chpt 32
- Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river.†
Chpt 32
- Then I says to myself, s'pose Tom Sawyer comes down on that boat?†
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- SO I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along.†
Chpt 33
- It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard—and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation.†
Chpt 33
- Tom Sawyer a NIGGER-STEALER!†
Chpt 33
- Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience—and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer.†
Chpt 33
- Tom Sawyer he says the same.†
Chpt 33
- If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.†
Chpt 34
- Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actuly going to help steal that nigger out of slavery.†
Chpt 34
- Then we started for the house, and I went in the back door—you only have to pull a buckskin latch-string, they don't fasten the doors—but that warn't romantical enough for Tom Sawyer; no way would do him but he must climb up the lightning-rod.†
Chpt 34
- "Why, Tom Sawyer, how you talk," I says; "Jim ain't got no use for a rope ladder."†
Chpt 35
- "Well," I says, "if it's in the regulations, and he's got to have it, all right, let him have it; because I don't wish to go back on no regulations; but there's one thing, Tom Sawyer—if we go to tearing up our sheets to make Jim a rope ladder, we're going to get into trouble with Aunt Sally, just as sure as you're born.†
Chpt 35
- At last I says: "This ain't no thirty-seven year job; this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer."†
Chpt 36
- I says; "your head gets leveler and leveler all the time, Tom Sawyer," I says.†
Chpt 36
- Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer?†
Chpt 40
- And so did I. It was Tom Sawyer on a mattress; and that old doctor; and Jim, in HER calico dress, with his hands tied behind him; and a lot of people.†
Chpt 42
- So Tom's Aunt Polly, she told all about who I was, and what; and I had to up and tell how I was in such a tight place that when Mrs. Phelps took me for Tom Sawyer—she chipped in and says, "Oh, go on and call me Aunt Sally, I'm used to it now, and 'tain't no need to change"—that when Aunt Sally took me for Tom Sawyer I had to stand it—there warn't no other way, and I knowed he wouldn't mind, because it would be nuts for him, being a mystery, and he'd make an adventure out of it, and be perfectly satisfied.†
Chpt 42
- So Tom's Aunt Polly, she told all about who I was, and what; and I had to up and tell how I was in such a tight place that when Mrs. Phelps took me for Tom Sawyer—she chipped in and says, "Oh, go on and call me Aunt Sally, I'm used to it now, and 'tain't no need to change"—that when Aunt Sally took me for Tom Sawyer I had to stand it—there warn't no other way, and I knowed he wouldn't mind, because it would be nuts for him, being a mystery, and he'd make an adventure out of it, and be perfectly satisfied.†
Chpt 42
- And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free!†
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Mark Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War; the most widely read and most commonly adapted to film of Twain's novels (1876)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus