How Did Tom Sawyer Change

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If you really knew me (and read the book “Tom Sawyer”) you would know that in some ways we are similar, but when it all adds up, we are very different. Thought the book “Tom Sawyer” we follow a young boy named Tom, he goes on many adventures with his friend Huckleberry Finn and his crush Becky Thatcher. We see that Tom grown and changed in many ways. I have also changed through my school year, if I compare the ways we’ve changed, you can say that they are definitely different. If you have read the book you can say in many ways. For example, he has learned how to respect others and their feelings. In the book he runs away with his friends and the whole town thought that they had drowned and died. He now knows that he should tell his aunt

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