In chapter two of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Twain exploits expressive imagery which enables the reader to identify, the main character, Tom as the qualified an daring hero.
Twain’s use of detailed imagery allows the reader to connect on a deeper level by understanding how Tom felt on Saturday morning when Aunt Polly Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed
Twain’s use of detailed imagery allows the reader to connect on a deeper level by understanding how Tom felt on Saturday morning when Aunt Polly Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed