@classicbook3: Two boys found $12,000 in gold in 1876. What do you think they did with it? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain Tom Sawyer can turn anything into a game. He cons half the town into paying him for the privilege of painting his fence. He runs away to be a pirate, and watches his own funeral from the church balcony. Then, one midnight in a graveyard, he sees something that isn't a game at all, and keeping quiet about it could cost an innocent man everything. Tom is usually remembered as the fun one: the barefoot schemer, the fence trick, the pirate adventure. Underneath the pranks, the book is about something sharper: what happens when a boy who performs everything for an audience finds himself having to do the right thing with nobody watching. And Twain doesn't let him turn into a neat little moral lesson. By the end, Tom's still running his cons. They're just aimed somewhere better. Watch how Tom gets from a whitewashed fence to a sealed cave. #TomSawyer #MarkTwain #AmericanLiterature #ClassicBooks #ClassicLiterature

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