Tom is a boy that lives with his aunt Polly in St. Petersburg. Tom has a brother named Sidney. A servant named Jim lives with them too.
He has a friend named Huckleberry but everybody calls him Huck. Huck has no parents and he lives nowhere. Tom does not like school and in stead of going there he sometimes goes swimming with Huck. He is smarter than his aunt when he tries to get out of a new punishment, for example when he steels sugar. When he sees a new girl in town he falls in love with her.
One day Tom was late for school because he had been talking to Huck about going to the cemetery at night to catch some thieves. He did not give an excuse so he was told to go sit next to the new girl. Her name was Becky Thatcher and she asked Tom to teach her how to draw because she could not draw that well. Tom told Becky he was in love with her. During the lunchbreak at school Tom gave Becky a doorknob and Becky said she liked Tom too. Tom told Becky how things are when you like each other, but when Tom started talking about his old love, Amy Lawrence, Becky thought Tom now had two girl friends. In the evening Tom climbed out of the window after he heard the “miauw” signal of Huck. At the cemetery three men arrived that were going to dig up Horse Williams. The three men were Red Joe, Muff Potter and Doctor Robinson. Because Red Joe and Muff Potter wanted more money if they had to carry the body of Horse Williams as well, so they started fighting. Red Joe stabbed the doctor with Muff Potter’s knife but he said Muff Potter had done it and then fainted so he didn’t remember. Huck and Tom had seen everything but they promised not to say anything.
The next day Tom found a note on his table, it was wrapped around the door knob. Yet another day later Muff Potter was blamed for the murder. One morning Sid said that Tom talked in his sleep, aunt Polly thought it was because of the murder on the cemetery, but she didn’t know that Tom had been there. In the evenings Sid listened to what Tom said but he didn’t tell anyone about it. When one day Becky didn’t come to school any more Tom forgot all about the murder. Tom was no longer happy and there wasn’t a laugh on his face.
Aunt Polly thought Tom was ill so she started giving him painkillers. Tom did not eat them but put them in a hole under the floor. When Tom’s aunts cat came by one day he gave it some of the painkillers with a spoon. When the cat started “miauwing” badly Aunt Polly came up and discovered the medication that Tom had given the cat. Suddenly it occurred to her that if it bothered the cat that much, it would bother Tom too.
When Tom got back to school, Becky was there again. He started doing everything close to her, but she ignored him. Tom was sad because Becky didn't like him any more and ran away. He ran into Joe Harper who had run away too. They decided to go to an island with Huck. After a long search, also on the water, everybody thought the boys had drowned because they were last seen when they were swimming. The boys were in a boat on the water at the time so they knew that everybody thought they were dead. One evening Tom swam home to listen at his house and he heard that the funeral was on a Friday. When he got back to the island the three boys decided to go to their own funeral. Everybody was happy to see the boys again. Tom told his aunt he had dreamt about them. He told exactly the story that he had lived when he had swam to the house, but aunt Polly later heard from Joe’s mother that he’d actually been there.
At school Tom and Becky started to make each other jealous by starting to play with the other children. Tom started seeing Amy Lawrence and Becky started seeing Alfred Temple. When Tom ran off angry, Becky left Alfred. Alfred was now angry and tore pages out of Tom’s book because he found out that Becky was only seeing him to make Tom jealous. Becky had accidentally damaged the book of her teacher but when he asked who had done it, Tom got up, when he knew that Becky did it. After this Tom and Becky were good friends again.
In the courtroom about the murder Tom’s name was called out by somebody in the room. Tom had to come forward and he told the truth. When he got the chance Red Joe fled out of the window and was not seen since. Huck and Tom wanted to find a treasure. They thought there would be one under the old tree but they did not find anything there. Then they went to the old empty house. When they got upstairs 2 men came in. When Tom and Huck looked better and listened they saw that one of the men was Red Joe but then dressed up. The men wanted to hide the treasure but in stead of doing that they found one. The men talked about not hiding two treasures in this but they would take them both to number two under the cross. They took both treasures and left. Tom and Huck thought the number two could be the number of a hotel. They went into the two hotels in town and a boy told them that it was a strange room. The room had a backdoor. When Tom went in he almost stepped onto a sleeping Red Joe.
The boys agreed that Huck would watch the backdoor when Tom was getting the money.
At the pick nick that Becky organised the children also went to the caves. When everybody had gone home again, Tom and Becky were still in the caves, they were lost. When Tom tried looking for the exit he ran into Red Joe in the caves and so he quickly ran back to Becky who was resting somewhere for a bit. Later he found an exit through which Tom and Becky climbed out, they then sailed back home with the boat.
In the mean time Huck had found out something too. He knew Red Joe’s plan. He wanted to murder Mrs. Douglas. Because Huck had warned a few men he could stop Red Joe. When Tom told them that Red Joe had also been in the mine, everybody started looking for him because the caves had been closed after Tom and Becky were back. Red Joe was found dead in the caves. The two boys later went back to the caves through the hole that Becky and Tom came out of. They found the place where Tom had seen Red Joe. There a cross had been made on the wall, under there the money was supposed to be. The boys found the money.
Mrs. Douglas gave a party. One of the men that Huck had warned told everybody that Huck had saved Mrs. Douglas’ live. She wanted to take Huck into her home and wanted to pay his school money because Huck did not have much money. Then Tom told them that Huck was not as poor as everybody thought and he showed everybody the money. Huck at first did not want to live with Mrs. Douglas but if he was allowed to go to Tom’s club he would try it for a month. That way he would sneak out to smoke.
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