Behind The Fence Book Report

When we first met Tom, he is caught stealing from his Aunt. Tom avoids gets out of there escaping Polly, then distances himself from his Aunt in fear she might punish him. When Aunt Polly understands the truth about Tom after being snitched to by Tom’s brother, Sid, for the next day, Tom will have to whitewash a fence for his punishment. Before Tom could receive his punishment, he tricks some boys into paying him to whitewash the fence. He gets out of his punishment, and leaves the boys to whitewash the fence. While walking home, he looks inside Jeff’s house and sees a beautiful girl. After seeing this girl, Tom fell in love with her and had a desire for her. This compassion that Tom has is something that I feel most of the times towards someone …show more content…
With all this emotion building up, Tom was overtaken by depression, so Aunt Polly tries to help Tom with his depression by giving him many different medicines, but none successfully work. Tom was naïve and fed some of his medication to his cat, which consequently, makes his cat go crazy. Aunt Polly was angered by this, and she yelled at Tom and told him that his medications will not work for him. Tom heads to school the next day, feeling recovered from his trauma. After being rejected by Becky, he is sadden by this and returns to his original state from before. While leaving the schoolhouse, he runs into a person named Joe, who was wanting to depart as well. So they run away, and journey to an island where they later wanted to play pretend pirates. Surviving like this, made Joe homesick for his family so he leaves his friends on the island and journeys back to his family. I relate to Tom with his trauma, and I feel like the way he dealt with it compared to me was pitiful. I honestly think that running away is the weaker option to do instead of handling problems straight on. If I were in Joe’s position, I would have moved on from this …show more content…
Approaching the camp, Joe and Huck are amazed yet confused about Tom’s note that he left behind. After a day of play, Huck and Joe began to feel homesick for their families. Tom does not want them to leave, so he persuades them to stay at the camp. Later in the night, a thunderstorm struck their camp which they manage to survive from. When the boys head to the town the next day, they arrive at their funerals which they crash and surprise all the people attending their funerals. So they decide to go back to school, and to their normal lives. Everyone at the school treated them with significance because of the stunt that they pulled. Ever since being rejected by Becky, he was angry so Tom decides to flirt with Amy instead. This makes Becky jealous, and tries to mistreat both individuals, but fails. The stunt that the boys pulled was ignorant and hurtful, if that was me I would not forgive myself for the pain I caused those people to