In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, The Great Law of Human Action plays a big role in the behaviors of the main characters. Tom Sawyer is a trouble maker. After he gets in trouble, he is ordered by his Aunt Polly to whitewash their fence. When his friends see him painting the fence, Tom pretends he loves the chore to make his friends beg to help. This is an example of the trouble he gets into. Part of the novel is devoted to the romance between Tom and Becky Thatcher. An event from Tom’s past separates them for a while, but eventually, he takes the blame for a book she ruined, making her like him again. Huckleberry Finn and Tom are good friends, and they decide to sneak out to a graveyard at night, where they witness Injun Joe
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This follows along with the fact that people want more, overlooking what they already have. Not only are they not thankful, but they are also being greedy by asking for more and more. According to a blog called You are the Sunshine of Your Life, “You want more because you’re under the illusion that you’re not enough. At the moment, you think you’re inadequate, as if there’s a piece of the puzzle missing. It feels as if experiencing new objects, people, and situations can fill that void.” During Tom’s fence whitewashing experience, the novel states that, “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it —namely that in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” (p 31 in e-book) This proves that the Great Law of Human Action works because people want more and more every day, so they try to find something easy to take to fill their void and entertain themselves. Also, according to the book, Huck Finn complains about his new life being rich by saying, “‘I've tried it, and it don't work; it don't work, Tom. It ain't for me…the widder's good to me, and friendly…so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's…the widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.” (p 397 in e-book) …show more content…
Using the Great Law of Human Action, Tom could make work seem fun, and that caused children to want to do what he was doing too. Most children are attracted to fun, and work is too tedious for them. Mark Twain uses his novel to state that, “…work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to
This follows along with the fact that people want more, overlooking what they already have. Not only are they not thankful, but they are also being greedy by asking for more and more. According to a blog called You are the Sunshine of Your Life, “You want more because you’re under the illusion that you’re not enough. At the moment, you think you’re inadequate, as if there’s a piece of the puzzle missing. It feels as if experiencing new objects, people, and situations can fill that void.” During Tom’s fence whitewashing experience, the novel states that, “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it —namely that in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” (p 31 in e-book) This proves that the Great Law of Human Action works because people want more and more every day, so they try to find something easy to take to fill their void and entertain themselves. Also, according to the book, Huck Finn complains about his new life being rich by saying, “‘I've tried it, and it don't work; it don't work, Tom. It ain't for me…the widder's good to me, and friendly…so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's…the widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.” (p 397 in e-book) …show more content…
Using the Great Law of Human Action, Tom could make work seem fun, and that caused children to want to do what he was doing too. Most children are attracted to fun, and work is too tedious for them. Mark Twain uses his novel to state that, “…work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to