The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Discuss how each of the following quotes identifies Tom as the "Universal Boy."

The “Universal Boy”
1.  “. . . to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to do that very thing.”

2.  “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

3.  “If he (Injun Joe) had been Satan himself, there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky waterworks.”

4.  “. . . the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.”

5.  “. . . showing off with all his might - cuffing boys, pulling hair, making faces - in a word, using every art that seemed likely to fascinate a girl and win her applause.”


Discuss Mark Twain's use of satire or irony in each of the following quotes or examples:
 
1.  Tom plans the “. . . slaughter of more innocents.”

2.  “The fresh-crowned hero fell without firing a shot.”

3.  “. . . it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.”

4.  “. . . she had to hide her griefs and still her broken heart and take up the cross of a long, dreary, aching afternoon, with none among the strangers about her to exheange stories with.”

5.  The entire chapter “Examination Day”.



Make a cartoon strip or story board of one of the Tom Sawyer stories.  Be sure it includes one of the elements of the “universal boy” theme.