The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
school for memorizing Bible verses and uses the tickets to claim a Bible as a prize. He
loses much of his glory, however, when, in response to a question to show off his
knowledge, he incorrectly answers that the first two Disciples were David and Goliath.
Tom falls in love with Rebecca "Becky" Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to
get "engaged" to him. Their love is ruined when she learns that Tom has been engaged to
another girl before: Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, Tom accompanies
Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, to the graveyard at night to try out a "cure" for
warts. Tom and Huckleberry always get into troubles.
About author of the book:
The author of the book is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born in 1835, 30 th
November and died in 1910, 21th April. He is well known by his pen name Mark Twain,
who was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels "Adventures of