Tom Sawyer

Alrighty, blog post #3! And I actually started reading! Yay! Anyway, I have started reading Tom Sawyer by: Mark Twain. Funnily enough, I have never read this classic. I see now that it is an excellent choice to go with my topic. By reading of Tom's childhood adventures I can draw a parallel between it and Wal-E. The two stories both are aimed at younger audiences, however both carry a lot of weight in their messages. In Tom Sawyer the reader sees the world through a child's eyes and follows the protagonist through his numerous adventures, the same way he or she follows Wal-E. This brings up a good question about which better conveys its message. Although in my opinion Wal-E carries a bigger message, its audience is mainly children and families, not scholars or adults who want to interpret it. Tom Sawyer, on the other hand, is now read mostly by high school students and taught at a higher level so its message becomes more prominent and better understood. So far in Tom Sawyer I have only gotten a description of who Tom is. He is an orphan who was adopted by his mother's sister, Polly. He is a compulsory trouble-maker and prankster. He has a tattle-tale half brother named Sid and a mortal enemy as well, whose name is not revealed but is very bourgeois and stuck up. There hasn't been much story yet, so it is hard to say what Tom Sawyer's message is, but I'm sure I'll pick it up later in the story.