Bravery In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Throughout the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, there are many times that bravery occurs. There are many characters that experience this attribute that is either being executed at them or that character executing it at someone else. There are many times that when bravery is executed, it has a positive effect but there are also times that when it occurs, there is a negative effect. For example, when Tom takes Becky’s punishment, he won over Becky and her love.

There are many times when Tom uses bravery and gets the advantage of something over it. But, there also many times when Tom wasn't brave and things did not go well. One of the times that bravery occurred was when Becky was searching through Mr. Dobbin’s anatomy book, she accidently …show more content…
While Injun Joe made Muff Potter and Doc Robinson dig up the grave for the treasure, he sat around and didn’t do anything. When they discovered the treasure, they got confused on how they would split the money. Since all Injun Joe cared about was the money, when Doc Robinson got in an argument about the treasure and how they would split it, Injun Joe had no care but to kill Doc Robinson. When Injun Joe saw that Tom and Huck witnessed it, he immediately had the desire for payback. Then, when Tom turned Injun Joe into court, Injun Joe ran off but then had the want to murder Tom Sawyer. The original thought was that Muff Potter did the murdering. This theory was brought by Injun Joe. While in the cave, Tom escaped with Becky from Injun Joe and then eventually, Injun Joe died. This was a sign of bravery that had a negative effect for the time off while Injun Joe was alive. It had a negative effect on Tom because he didn’t feel safe going anywhere fearing that Injun Joe would be right there to kill him and when Injun Joe did see him, he had to hide and run immediately. Once Injun Joe died, though, relief ran through Tom’s body knowing that he wouldn’t have to look over his shoulder all the …show more content…
They couldn’t find where they were going and saw Injun Joe in the cave too. They had to escape away from him. This is a sign of Bravery because there were no torches lit by where they were. Becky’s motivation to do this was because she was running the picnic and wanted to have fun by exploring and be free. This was also an example of bravery because they decided to do their own thing, even though it would be tough to get back. This ended up having a negative aspect because of the fact that they almost died. Another representation of bravery was when Tom and Huck went to look for buried treasure. They looked under multiple trees but couldn't find anything. They then decided to look in the haunted house. But Huck then remembered it was a Friday “an unlucky day”, so they decided to go back the next day. They met at the same place at the same time. After they had a brief smoke, they went to the haunted house. They first examined the first floor and then went up to the second. Just as they were about to go back down, Injun Joe and another man went through the door. They were also looking for treasure. Since Tom and Huck were trapped because the stairs were very loud, they were stuck for the time being of Injun Joe and the other man in there. Injun Joe and the other man would then go on to