American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1009 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*
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The idea
Twain's novel of eighteen seventy-six follows a boy in a Mississippi town through whitewashing a fence, attending his own funeral, witnessing a murder and finding a treasure. It is written for a general audience and remembers boyhood as an adventure, which its sequel refuses to do.
In practice
A fence, a funeral, a cave, a treasure.
Where people slip
The sequel undoes this book's comfort.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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