Murder In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn--Also known as Huck or Huck Finn-- go to the graveyard one night to go see the Devil come get Hoss Williams body so Huck can try a superstition. While they were there Huck and Tom witness a grave robbery that involved Doc Robinson--A young doctor needing a body-- Muff Potter--A town drunkard-- and Injun Joe--Half indian half white--robbing the grave of Hoss Williams. When Potter and Injun Joe wanted more money and the doc didn’t give it to them they started fighting and the doc hit Potter on the top of the head with a grave marker. When Potter was unconscious Injun Joe stabbed Doc Robinson and killed him. Injun Joe blamed it on Potter because it was Potters knife he used and Potter was unconscious. Tom and Huck ran away as fast as possible after they witnessed that and swore to keep mum, or be quiet. But Tom’s conscience started feeling bad and started to make him have bad dreams and for him to start talking in his sleep. Tom didn’t know if to tell the police it wasn’t Muff Potter or to keep the promise to Huck. Tom should tell the police what happened that night because an innocent man might meet his maker and the guilty person get away with the horrendous thing that he has done, …show more content…
Potter shouldn’t die because of something he didn’t do. You know that saying you do the crime you pay the price? Well, that is exactly what Injun Joe should do! The saying is not you don’t do the crime you pay the price! No one should want to send an innocent man to be hung. Even though it might mean that Tom has to break his promise to Huck to keep mum. You can’t let a guilty man get away because it might happen again, who knows! He might stop, but still, he is the one who killed Doc Robinson and he should go to jail for doing a crime, especially for this crime of murder and