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The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up. In the story's introduction, Twain notes:"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest of those boys were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture."[2]Plot summaryTom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly, brother Sid, and cousin Mary. He is a mischievous boy, disinterested in school, and continually recruiting his equally-mischievous friends to join him on his adventures.After skipping school and fighting with another schoolboy, Tom's Aunt Polly orders him to whitewash the picket fence that surrounds their property. Tom would rather go and play, so when a schoolmate begins to taunt him, Tom tricks him into whitewashing the fence for him. He has soon convinced several other schoolmates to join in and gets some of their small possessions in return.Tom develops a crush on a classmate of his named Becky Thatcher, the daughter of a local judge. They sneak off together during school one day at lunchtime, and Tom convinces her that they should become "engaged". At first, Becky is thrilled, but this soon backfires on Tom when he accidentally lets it slip that he has been "engaged" before.Tom then recruits his friend Huckleberry Finn, an even more mischievous boy who is the neglected son of a town drunk, to go try out a cure for warts at midnight in a cemetary. While there, the two boys witness the murder of Dr. Robinson by a local man nicknamed "Injun Joe". Injun Joe tells the authorities that his companion, the oft-inebriated Muff Potter, is responsible for the