Special And Important Places In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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In the popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the author Mark Twain sets Tom’s adventures in St. Petersburg Missouri. Although this is a fictional place, Twain based the locations on his childhood town, Hannibal Missouri. Likewise, I have special and important places to me. Some significant places to my childhood and growing up are, the creek in my grandparent’s back yard, the neighborhood park in my near my grandparents house, and the tree at my old house with long twisted branches. Walking down to the peaceful, but brisk creek in my grandparent’s back yard, always makes me feel grateful. Every year when I go to my grandparent’s house in Portland, Oregon, I wake up and walk outside and feel the cool morning breeze. Then I walk

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