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全英文读书笔记 全英文读书笔记 Book Report of Adventure of Tom Sawyer Introduction Gist: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer describes the life of an imaginative, troublesome boy in the American West of the 1840s. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He seems to be the precursor of naughty which always makes Aunt Polly very angry but his smart also helps solves a lot of problems. Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get engaged to him. ThEir romance collapses when she learns that Tom has been engaged beforeto a girl named Amy Lawrence. Then he gets to know Huck Finn, the son of a drunk, who is always isolated by both children and adults. One day by accident, they witness the murder of young Dr. Robinson by the Native-American half-breed Injun Joe at the graveyard. But Injun misled Muff Potter to admit the murder, and he was wrongly arrested. Scared, they run away to a deserted island and become pirates. Meanwhile, the townsmen think they are dead in the river and begin to hold funeral for them. But they appear at the funeral and identify Injun Joe is the murderer, but he flees from the window. Summer arrives, and Tom and Huck go hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house. Accidentally, they find Injun Joe who disguises as a mute and deaf Spanish who wants to buy stolen treasure. Finally, they locks Injun in the cave and starves him to death. A week later, Tom takes Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold. And Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas Structure: In my opinion, the novel can be divided into three parts. 1.From 1st chapter to 10th chapter: the period before maturity. The novel begins with Aunt Polly sweeping the house in search of her nephew, Tom Sawyer which indicates his naughty. He skips school, fights with the new boy, although is punished to whitewash the fence skillfully let Ben do it for him, and pursues the puppy lo