Romantic Tom Sawyer Is it risky to be a romantic? In Mark Twain's The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, the character Tom Sawyer risks too much because of his romantic nature. Tom is a risky romantic because he is always looking for adventure, schemes impractical ideas, and has to do everything just like the books, all of which puts many lives in danger.
To begin with, Tom Sawyer has an overwhelming sense of adventure. In the book, Tom announces to his gang, “ ‘We ain’t burglars. That ain’t no sort of style. We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill people and take their watches and money’”(p.8). This line of text demonstrates that Tom will do whatever it takes to go on an adventure, even if it’s pretend. Another example is when Huck and Tom plan to free Jim, Tom says, “ ‘What’s the good of a plan if there ain’t no more trouble than that?’”(p.232). This shows that Tom wants to free Jim in a daring, troublesome way proving that Tom is a risky romantic. …show more content…
One example is when Tom tells Huck he must dress as a servant girl to deliver the nonnamous letter and Huck argues, “ ‘... but there won’t be nobody to see what I look like anyway’”(p.267). Huck is trying to explain to Tom that it is pointless to dress up for no one will even see him, proving Tom’s ideas are impractical. The next example is when Huck and Tom ate the sawdust of the sawed bed-leg to hide the evidence, the text says, “... the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it gave us a most amazing stomach-ache”(p.266). This establishes the concept that eating the sawdust is unnecessary and impractical, as they could have both gotten extremely
To begin with, Tom Sawyer has an overwhelming sense of adventure. In the book, Tom announces to his gang, “ ‘We ain’t burglars. That ain’t no sort of style. We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill people and take their watches and money’”(p.8). This line of text demonstrates that Tom will do whatever it takes to go on an adventure, even if it’s pretend. Another example is when Huck and Tom plan to free Jim, Tom says, “ ‘What’s the good of a plan if there ain’t no more trouble than that?’”(p.232). This shows that Tom wants to free Jim in a daring, troublesome way proving that Tom is a risky romantic. …show more content…
One example is when Tom tells Huck he must dress as a servant girl to deliver the nonnamous letter and Huck argues, “ ‘... but there won’t be nobody to see what I look like anyway’”(p.267). Huck is trying to explain to Tom that it is pointless to dress up for no one will even see him, proving Tom’s ideas are impractical. The next example is when Huck and Tom ate the sawdust of the sawed bed-leg to hide the evidence, the text says, “... the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it gave us a most amazing stomach-ache”(p.266). This establishes the concept that eating the sawdust is unnecessary and impractical, as they could have both gotten extremely