Have you ever played any discouraging pranks on others of had them played on you? In the exciting book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” written by Mark Twain, the main mischievous sneaky character was Tom Sawyer. Tom screeched out many scary and dreadful pranks that harmed friends and family. You may be wondering, where these pranks great, bad, or where they even kind of both? Well, somewhere okay, somewhere bad, and others where almost funny.
Tom played many bad pranks. Making people think he was deceased was one of the couple ones he played. Tom had t fun for miles to get out of reach of others. “He enters a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the center of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak.” Tom thought to himself, “What if I went away-ever so far away, into unknown countries beyond the seas-and never come back any more?” What Tom had done didn’t make Aunt Polly Happy. Coming back just in time …show more content…
Tom one drowsy morning decided why not skip school and go swimming? So that’s exactly what he did. Swimming was an extremely fun “sport” that Tom enjoyed even on a school day. Aunt Polly wiped him for skipping school and the min he got home she was there waiting to do it. Taking care of these problems was a chore for poor Aunt Polly but somehow she did it!
Tom’s pranks didn’t make Aunt Polly happy and Tom deserved all the Punishments he got. Aunt Polly was a consistent in disabling Tom and parents should take care of the kids and confront them if there pranks are not pleasing to Christ! Proverbs 22:6 explains, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” So training a child in the way they should go so that they may not depart from Christ! So keep in mind the next time you want to do a prank ask yourself will this harm others, will it make them mad, or will they think it’s
Tom played many bad pranks. Making people think he was deceased was one of the couple ones he played. Tom had t fun for miles to get out of reach of others. “He enters a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the center of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak.” Tom thought to himself, “What if I went away-ever so far away, into unknown countries beyond the seas-and never come back any more?” What Tom had done didn’t make Aunt Polly Happy. Coming back just in time …show more content…
Tom one drowsy morning decided why not skip school and go swimming? So that’s exactly what he did. Swimming was an extremely fun “sport” that Tom enjoyed even on a school day. Aunt Polly wiped him for skipping school and the min he got home she was there waiting to do it. Taking care of these problems was a chore for poor Aunt Polly but somehow she did it!
Tom’s pranks didn’t make Aunt Polly happy and Tom deserved all the Punishments he got. Aunt Polly was a consistent in disabling Tom and parents should take care of the kids and confront them if there pranks are not pleasing to Christ! Proverbs 22:6 explains, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” So training a child in the way they should go so that they may not depart from Christ! So keep in mind the next time you want to do a prank ask yourself will this harm others, will it make them mad, or will they think it’s