Tom Sawyer Final Essay

As the school bus passes, driving down the street back into the world of which it came from, you glance back at where it was sitting just a moment ago. The calm, peaceful world has returned to the way it was, never really changing from day to day. Tom, from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, never really does change throughout the novel. Even adventures as a pirate and a robber can't change Tom's innocent personality. Innocence takes time to diminish, something of which The Adventures of Tom Sawyer doesn't span enough over.

The boys from the novel are immature and innocent; for they will be innocent for time to come. Tom Sawyer has many immature adventures many children dream about-- but are mature enough not to actually go out and have those adventures. Children are certain of their futures up until an evident time in their lives. Tom thinks he knows what it is he wants to bring about in his lifetime, yet he is only a child. Every child at one point in their life wants to be just like Tom actually is -- able to get away with whatever -- no matter how crazy it is.

Along with being immature, childish is something Tom Sawyer is without a doubt. In the novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer is a young boy with friends by his side. All throughout the novel Tom, Huck, and Joe are friends to the end. Pirates who attend their own funerals to robbers who find Injun Joe's treasure, these boys are going to be there for each other. Tom Sawyer and his friends will stick together forever, disregarding the challenges that they will certainly conquer in the romantic world of literature they live in.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel about a boy who dreams of adventure, immature enough to go right ahead and pursue his dreams. Children are adventurous, as they always will be, but Tom is a boy of childish nature who will live his whole life always dreaming of new adventures. The three adventurers from the 1800's will always be an American classic for relating to the people of the modern world today. Even though Tom will grow to be a man one day, he will always be a child at heart.