The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer doesn't like school or work at all. But he is a very inteligent boy. One day his very strict Aunt Polly asks him to paint her thirty-metre-long-fence. Tom hates this so he comes up with an idea. His friend Joe was coming towards him and Tom began to paint the fence with a lot of enthusiasm. Joe saw this and pleaded Tom for a try, Tom denied him that try so Joe offered him an apple. Soon enough all the children in the village were lining up to paint the fence and Tom was the richest boy in town, and in no time the thirty-metre-long fence was covered in a beautiful white.
And although Aunt Polly was awfully strict Tom spent his days work-free.

One day Tom was in the village and he got together with his homeless friend, Huckleberry Finn. Huck told Tom he had a dead cat and asked him if he would like to go to the graveyard at 12 p.m.to call the ghosts. Huck would go to meow for Tom at his house at 11p.m. and then they could go to the graveyard. After this Tom was late for school. That day Tom knew he was falling in love for real. A new girl arrived to school her name was Becky Thatcher. He made friends with her and that made him a very happy boy. Later on that night Huck came to call for Tom and they were off to the graveyard. After walking one mile thay got there. At the gates of the graveyard they took out the dead cat and spotted some bushes and hid behind them. They sat there for a while until they saw some shadows. At first they thought they were ghosts but as they came closer they realised they were humans. Soon enough Tom found out that they were graverobbers. So they listened carefully. One of the figures was the village doctor. He wanted the body to chop it up and keep the organs. The doctor was negociating with the other two men, but he didn't agree with them so he knocked one of them to the ground, Injun Joe was unconscious. The doctor fought with Muff Potter, that's when Injun Joe awakened . And that's when Injun Joe took out Muff Potter's knife and quickly stabbed it into the doctors' back. The doctor fell to the floor on top of Muff, Injun Joe remained still. Injun Joe put the knife back in Muff's hand. The boys were dead silent with there mouths wide open. A while later Muff Potter woke up and saw the dead body and the knife in his hand. He was innocent but he didn't know that, Injun Joe was the murderer. Muff Potter felt terribly sorry, he was sure that was very unlike him, to kill somebody. According to Muff Potter it must have been the whiskey. They both left leaving the body there without saying a word, so did the boys. The next night, Muff Potter returned to the graveyard to collect his knife. But there were guards, he got arrested and they put him in prison for murder. He was te most hated person in St.Petesburg. But only Huck and Tom knew the truth. They were appaled at the thought of poor innocent Muff Potter locked up in prison. But they couldn't tell anyone else; for sure Injun Joe would kill them.


The summer holidays began. One hot summer day Tom was fishing with his friend Joe Harper and had a bright idea. 'Let's run away!'- he said. Joe asked where, Tom said to a deserted island. Joe thought it was a good idea so they were off. But Tom called Huck so all three of them could go.They grabbed some food, took a boat and sailed for eight miles. When they arrived at the island they felt very happy, they were free!! They fished and swam and ran around At night they lit up a fire and cooked their meat. This went on for a couple of days, one night Tom went out to the sea. In the morning Huck and Joe woke up and Tom was missing so they went out to look for him. They saw him by the sea. There were lots and lots of boats in the water. It looked like the whole of St.Petesburg went out to sea. Soon enough they realised they were there to look for some dead peron. But that was precisely it! They were the dead people everyone was looking for. Back in St. Petesburg everyone thought the three boys were dead, the mood was gloomy. The boy decided to come back. In St.Petesburg a funeral was taking place in the church. A funeral for Huckleberry Finn,Joe Harper and Thomas Sawyer. Whenever there was a funeral in the village everyone came. So you could imgine the shock in the church when the three dead boys showed up at the church. Aunt Polly and Joe's mum were hopping with joy at the sight of this.


In the middle of summer Huck and Tom couldn't stand the fright in thinking that Injun Joe, the murderer, was a free man and poor innocent Muff Potter was locked up in prison for somethng he didn't do. That's when Tom decided to take it to court. He went to court with Injun Joe in the same room he was scared to death. He came up to tell the judge what he saw. But when the boy was about to reveal the big secret, Injun Joe, knowing he would go to prison, crashed out of the window. Everything was silent for a moment. Injun Joe was out and about,he was a criminal!! St. Petesburg was frightened to their bones!!! But what could they do??



When Huck got better the boys were back. Tom and Huck came up with an idea. They thought it would be fun to go on a treasure hunt, all children do at some point in their life. So they thought of a good place to look for treasure and went. They were very excited when they got there. It was a very old house, on the top floor the ground was full of holes so the boys could see the downstairs floor from there. The boys looked down but were terribly frightened when they saw some people. It must have been some foreigners because Tom and Huck didn't recognise them. One of them looked like a Spaniard although he was suspiciously familiar. The Spaniard took of his hat and hair!! And it just happened to be Injun Joe!! Huck and Tom were frightened to their bones, they could barely speak! But they stayed there to see what it was all about. It turned out the''Spaniard'' and his friend had 5,000 dollars. But inside that home was a treasure chest with 12,000 dollars in it. The men discussed hiding places for the treasure. They thought they could leave the money in the house and come back in a week to collect it. This put big smiles on the boys' faces. Later on they decided to hide it behind the cross. Where could that be?? And how could they get it??


Another summer day Tom went to Becky Thatcher's birthday party. It was out in the coutry , they were having a picnic with no grown-ups. Just children all out in the wild. After the picnic they went to play in the caves. Becky and Tom lost track of time and got lost in the hundreds of tunnels. They stayed there for three whole days!! They slept and talked and slept and talked. They were desperate and starving. Tom came up with an idea, Becky had a thread so he went to explore through the tunnels and came back following the thread. Tom went in the first tunnel, the second one, the third one... In one of them Tom saw Injun Joe. But he looked just as frightened as Tom was. Tom ran for his life but didn't say a word to Becky.After endless exploring he found his way out. So he went to fetch Becky and they came out. Meanwhile Huck had been ill, very ill. A very generous lady picked him up off the streets and put hi in bed in her home. And there he was ,resting. The first thing Tom wanted to do once he was out was go visit Huck.So he decided to go to the lady's home. She told him that Huck was very ill and that he could come in and see him but only to say hello and then he would have to leave as Huck needed all the rest he could get.


When Tom rescued Becky the whole village was there and they made sure no one would ever et lost in the cave again so they closed it up with a big wall. But that's when Tom told everyone Injun Joe was in there. So they opened up the cave and found his dead body there. And his knife.
This made Tom and Huck remember the treasure, the treasure under the cross. And after thinking about it, the treasure had to be in the cave. Why else would Injun Joe be in there?? So that made up their minds, they crept into the cave and looked for a cross. They saw one burnt onto the wall, but there was no treasure underneath it!! They touched the wall and moved it, there was a secret passage and at the end, sure enough it was the treasure. 12,000 $ Huck and Tom were the richest little boys in St. Petesburg!!!