How Mark Twain Makes The Storm Scene Come To Life

Mark Twain, a brilliant, smart writer, uses words very well. He makes the reader feel like he is watching it like a movie. He makes the storm scene come to life. As he writes the script, and as the reader reads it, you can clearly see and imagine what is going on in the story.

In chapter fourteen, it opens up with Tom and his friends, Joe and Huck, waking up being in the middle of woods. Tom, is the first one to wake up and he realizes how much he likes it in the woods. He enjoys the peace and stillness of nature, at this point, he loved being in the woods alone with his friends. He thought “this is the perfect place to be pirates,” with the river and small beach right there next to him. All of a sudden, he began to hear birds chirping. As the next couple of minutes passed by, he began to see and hear the woods coming to life. He sees birds flying and all the creatures scurrying on the ground. From the peace and quiet of the early morning, to now, as the sun was quickly rising, everything was up and awake. At this point, Tom is just amazed at everything that is taking place. He …show more content…
All of a sudden as Mark Twain writes it, “a faint moan came sighing through the branches of the forest and the boys felt a fleeting breath upon their cheeks, and shuddered with the fancy that the spirit of the night had gone by.” Trees began to move and the quiet woods wasn’t so quiet anymore. The boys didn’t think much of it until, out of nowhere a stroke of lightning struck and it lit up the woods. “Now a weird flash turned night into day and showed every single grass blade, separate, and distinct, that grew about their feet.” Tom Sawyer and his friends at that point were scared to death. They didn't know what to do as thunder began to roar and a strong storm swept through and they were