Tom Sawyer Summative Essay

     As a child your imagination takes you to extraordinary places. Those times when you would play pirate by digging for the buried treasure in the sand box in the summer heat. This thought that when this treasure is found all your cares in the world will disappear, and happiness will flood inside of you. For you think that just one moment all your problems will be solved by your delight. The truth to the matter is that no matter how much money this treasure has to offer, it will never buy your happiness.
    
     Money ... money is all many of these characters can seem to think about. Around midnight lurking in the graveyard Tom, and Huck heard other voices directly next to them. Peeking out from behind a bush, Tom recognized the familiar faces, Injun Joe and Muff Potter. As they saw this terrible tragedy committed before their very eyes, Injun Joe had stabbed Dr. Robinson, and then convinced the innocent Potter that he had killed the doctor while drunk. All of this happened because of money. These men were going to rob the grave until something took a turn for the worst. Today money means everything; it gets the best of some, and makes people like Injun Joe do things they wouldn’t normally do otherwise.
    
     This thought of money got to Tom and Huck’s head too, as they headed of down the river to Jackson’s island. There they had decided to become pirates by searching this island for hidden treasure. Intrigued by the thought that when they found this treasure all their problems would be solved. That there would be no more talk of how to ever pay for things, and not only will this money cure there issues, they will become heroic characters. Ones who others look up to for risking there lives to find such a marvelous prize. A treasure that no one has ever been able to find before, but these two young men could. and when they are the richest men they will become famous. It’s just this: Money plays such an important role in the world that we would do such events for it. We have risked our lives for publicity. These kinds of things are crazy and unrealistic, but we do them anyway.
    
     This treasure that was found in the deep corners of the cave, and Tom had inveigled Injun Joe as to where to find it, Tom and Huck became heroes as they had wished. But was had was not wanted as they lived this actual experience. This treasure beheld more money than anyone had ever seen at once, $12,000. Happiness was not found with this treasure, and Tom and Huck both came to realize that the life they had was great. The careless life they lived in innocence was the key to happiness and they must to except this fact.

Role models in life

     Guidance through our early years of life is essential. We all need someone to look up to as a role model. Whether it’s an older sibling, friend, or parent, somebody becomes a mentor for you. They will guide us through life. As we learn from their mistakes, and become our own person, we find your own dislikes and likes. When we become older we discover these things we had convinced our selves of must be sorted from the actual truth.

     Follow that person you look up to in life, but don’t do what is wrong just because they do. Tom makes this mistake in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He learns things from Huckleberry Finn. He makes decisions based off of what he has learned from Huck. When a child looks up to you for guidance you need to be careful what you do around them. In the story when Huck was smoking his pipe, Tom got curious and decide to try it. He is hurting himself, and does not know it is bad, because of the things he is normally around. To him this is a natural environment, and nothing more.

     Things aren’t always this serious as they were with Tom, for me. My role model was my sister, Taylor. When I was younger I tried to be like her in every single way. Whether it was things like what food I liked, or what I was afraid of. My sister didn’t like jelly, so she would eat just peanut butter sandwiches. Since she didn’t like it, neither did I. I had convinced myself that I actually didn’t like jelly. I never ate jelly again until 6th grade when my dad told me that I would like it, and I did. I had discovered that what I had thought when I younger was just because I wanted to be like Taylor. There were many things I had thought I disliked, but truthfully I had liked them, or never even tried them. I was discovering my own likes, and dislikes.
Looking up to someone when were younger is an experience that teaches us we shouldn’t be someone were not. We all need to grow up at some point, and become our own person. Learn from those around you and discover the Truth.

Tom sawyer: sub-themes