Title for Book Review of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I was v and a half years old when my female parent gave me The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a New Yr's gift (she is a literature teacher, and I have been reading novels since the tender age of four or so, so it seemed appropriate).
Being a diligent and serious¹ kid (neither of those qualities have stuck with me, unfortunately), I opened it to page 1 and started reading. I fifty-fifty took it with me to kindergarten, where other kids were learning letters and I was mercifully immune to read hefty tomes, having obviously achieved full literacy by that point.
¹Me (historic period 5) and Mom. The diligent seriousness is *all over* this film.
This volume initially left me quite dislocated, but I was undeterred - after all, the earth was a disruptive place, full of adults and rules and great books - even those without pictures. (And I was very proud to own books without pictures, after all). But his one was just too strange - its start did not quite fit with the rest of the quite fun story - information technology was odd and dry and incomprehensible for the starting time 40 pages or so, and it even was about some other guy (Samuel Clemens?) who was not Tom Sawyer.
A few years afterward I reread my early childhood favorite (I probably reached a ripe erstwhile age of 8 or so, nevertheless diligent but a chip less serious already). Information technology was then that I figured out what seemed strange about the beginning of this book when I was five.
You meet, I diligently slogged my way through the most tiresome academic foreword, assuming that was the first chapter. What amazes me that I managed to stay awake through it. Expert chore, five-year-onetime me! Splendid preparation for that painfully boring biochemistry course a couple of decades later on!
Afterward that foreword, slogging through any classic was a comparative breeze. Yes, I'm looking at you, War and Peace! You know what yous did, y'all endless tome.Besides, as information technology turns out, when you include two characters named Joe in one volume (Injun Joe and Tom's classmate Joe Harper) that can crusade a certain amount of defoliation to a 5-year-former who assumes they have to be the same person and struggles really hard to reconcile their seemingly conflicting characters. And, every bit a side note, I have e'er been disappointed at Tom Sawyer tricking his friends to do the infamous contend whitewashing. A *existent* kid knows after all that painting stuff is fun. Five-year-old me was a chip disapproving of the silliness.
I take told bits and pieces of this volume to my friends on the playground, while dangling from the monkey bars or building sandcastles (in a sandbox, that in retrospect I suspect was used past the neighborhood stray cats as a litterbox - but I guess yous take to develop immunity to germs somehow). Nosotros may have planned an escape to an island in a truthful Tom Sawyer fashion, only the idea fizzled. Later all, we did non have an isle nearby, which was a trouble. Also, nosotros may accept got distracted by the afternoon cartoons.
Anytime, I only may have to leave this book within a reach of my future hypothetical daughter - as long as I make sure it does not come with a long-winded boring introduction.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #1), Mark Twain
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876). He appears in three other novels past Twain: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), "Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894), and "Tom Sawyer, Detective" (1896).
Tom Sawyer, an orphan, lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the fictional boondocks of St. Petersburg, Missouri old in the 1840's. A fun-loving boy, Tom skips schoolhouse to go swimming and is made to whitewash his aunt's fence for the entirety of the next day, Saturday, every bit punishment.
In ane of the most famous scenes in American literature, Tom cleverly persuades the various neighborhood children to trade him small trinkets and treasures for the "privilege" of doing his wearisome piece of work, using reverse psychology to convince them information technology is an enjoyable activeness.
Tom subsequently trades the trinkets with other students for diverse denominations of tickets, obtained at the local Sunday school for memorizing verses of Scripture; he cashes these in to the minister in order to win a much-coveted Bible offered to studious children as a prize, despite being one of the worst students in the Sunday school and knowing almost cypher of Scripture, eliciting envy from the students and a mixture of pride and shock from the adults.
Tom falls in honey with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town and the daughter of a prominent judge. Tom wins the admiration of the judge in church by obtaining the Bible every bit a prize, but reveals his ignorance when he cannot respond bones questions about Scripture.
Tom pursues Becky, eventually persuading her to get "engaged" past kissing him. However, their romance soon collapses when she learns that Tom had been previously "engaged" to another schoolgirl, Amy Lawrence, and that Becky was not his first girlfriend.
عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «تام سایر»؛ «توم سایر»؛ «ماجراهای تام سایر»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه فوریه سال 1981میلادی
عنوان: تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: محمدرضا جعفری؛ تهران، امیرکبیر - کتابهای طلائی - شماره 52، چاپ سوم 1354؛ در 36ص؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 19م
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر (متن کوتاه شده)؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: جعفر مدرس صادقی؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، کتاب مریم، 1373؛ در 158ص؛ شابک9643050696؛ عنوان دیگر توم سایر؛چاپ سوم 1380؛ چاپ چهارم 1388؛ در 118ص؛
عنوان: تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: سودابه زرکف؛ تهران، آیینه، 1395؛ در 176ص؛ شابک9786008098119؛
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: داود سالک؛ تهران، معیار علم، 1386؛ در 272ص؛ شابک9789646651852؛
عنوان: ماجراهای ��ام سایر (متن کوتاه شده)؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: محسن سلیمانی؛ تهران، سوره، 1377؛ در 167ص؛ مصور
عنوان: ماجراهای تام سایر؛ نویسنده: مارک تواین؛ مترجم: مریم طیبی؛ ویراستار: سیدامیرمحمد آزادی نائینی، تهران، آتون کتاب، 1395؛ در 456ص؛ شابک 9786008388159؛
مترجمین دیگر خانمها و آقایان: مهدی علوی در 160ص؛ احمد کسایی پور در 410ص؛ کیومرث پارسای در 322ص؛ فاطمه امینی 311ص؛ سپهر شهلایی در 120ص؛ شایسته ابراهیمی در 71ص؛ لیلا سبحانی در 212ص؛ غزاله ابراهیمی در 238ص؛ مریم یعقوبی در 32ص؛ و ....؛
تام نماینده ی دنیای شگفت انگیز، و بی دغدغه ی پسرهای نوجوان، پیش از جنگ داخلی آمریکاست؛ «تام» نیز همانند بسیاری از پسرهای آن زمان، بیشتر دوست دارد پابرهنه راه برود؛ بهترین دوستانش «جو هارپر» و «هاکلبری فین» هستند؛ در رمان «ماجراهای تام سایر»، او به یکی از همکلاسیهای خود، به نام «ربه کا (بکی) تاچر»، دل می‌بندد؛ او با برادر ناتنیش «سید»، دخترخاله اش «مری»، و «خاله پولی»، در شهر خیالی «سن پترزبورگ»، در ایالت «میسوری» زندگی می‌کند؛ «تام» خاله ی دیگری هم به نام «سالی» دارد؛ که در شهر «پایکزویل»، پایین رود «می.سی.سی.پی» هستند؛ مادر «تام (خواهر خاله پولی)»، از دنیا رفته است؛ یک شب «تام» و دوست صمیمیش «هاک»، در پی یک ماجراجویی، به قبرستان می‌روند، و به طور تصادفی، شاهد قتل «دکتر رابینسون» می‌شوند؛ آن‌ها سوگند می‌خورند، که راز آن شب را، هرگزی برملا نکنند؛ «ماف پاتر» از اهالی شهر، که دائم الخمر است، با توطئه چینی «جو سرخپوسته»، به اتهام قتل دستگیر می‌شود؛ اما بچه ها می‌دانند «ماف پاتر» بیگناه است و ...؛
مارک توین (تواین)؛ در مقدمه ی این کتاب می‌نویسند: (بیشتر ماجراهایی که در این کتاب ثبت شده اند، در واقعیت اتفاق افتاده اند؛ یکی دوتا، تجربه ی شخصی خود من بوده، بقیه ماجراهایی که، برای پسرهای همکلاسی من رخ داده اند؛ شخصیت «هاکلبری فین» از یک آدم واقعی گرفته شده، «تام سایر» هم همین‌طور، ولی نه از یک نفر؛ «تام» ترکیبی از ویژگیها و خلق و خوی سه پسربچه است، که من می‌شناختم، در نتیجه از نظر ساخت، شخصیتی چند وجهی هست.)؛ پایان نقل
نقل نمونه متن تام سایر: (بالاخره روز شنبه شد؛ تابستان بود و دنیا درخشان و شاداب و سرشار از زندگی. در دل‌ها ترانه بود و در چهره ها شادی و در گام‌ها جهش؛ درختان اقاقیا شکوفه داده بودند، و عطر شکوفه هایشان هوا را پر کرده بود؛ تپه ی کاردیف در بالای دهکده از گیاهان سرسبز پوشیده شده بود و آن قدر دور بود که به نظر سرزمین خوش و رویایی و آرام و وسوسه انگیزی می‌آمد
در همین موقع، سر و کله ی «تام» با سطلی پر از دوغاب گچ و قلم موی دسته بلندی در پیاده روی جلوی نرده پیدا شد؛ بعد نرده ی چوبی را ورانداز کرد، و شادی از صورتش محو شد، و غم تمام وجودش را گرفت؛ آخر، نرده ی چوبی سی متر طول، و چند پا عرض داشت؛ زندگی به نظرش بیهوده آمد با بودن هم‌چون باری سنگین
آهی کشید، و قلم مویش را در سطل فرو برد، و آن را به نرده کشید؛ چند بار این‌کار را تکرار کرد؛ بعد نوار باریک و کوچکی را، که رنگ سفید مالیده بود، با آن همه جای دیگر نرده، که مثل قاره ای رنگ نخورده بود، مقایسه کرد، و دلسرد و ناامید شد، و روی کنده ی درختی نشست)؛ پایان نقل
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 23/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 05/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Update All we need now is a "lost" manuscript by Twain to be found past some lawyer with the story being about an adult Tom Sawyer and this book being the one the editor "forced" Twain to write. I know yous are probably thinking that is taking Harper Lee's Go Ready a Watchman to far, but what if that was merely the beginning of a new initiative from publishers. It could be the latest manner now no-one is interested in vampires whatsoever more?
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What happened to Tom subsequently he grew upwards was asked in a review by a friend. Thinking back on the times, his graphic symbol and the writer, I've come up with three possible ideas.
1. He became a bank manager and magistrate in a very modest town. He married Becky and both put on a lot of weight. They had no children but 3 yappy toy spaniels whom they doted on. Mas Thomas Sawyer allowed no elbowroom with naughty boys and the cane was much in employ.
2. Tom with Huck and Jim found a treasure trove and were given a big reward. Aunt Polly invested information technology until Tom was 21. Tom, Huck and Jim bought a steamboat together, converted it into a casino and plyed the Mississipi offering Blackness Jack and Jack Daniels at every stop.
3. At eighteen, Tom ran away to New Orleans and took upwards with a cute Creole woman with pale coffee pare and became a preacher in a loudly charismatic church building. He and his wife had a whole brood of multi-coloured kids whom they named for the virtues, Abstinence, Doughty, Chastity, Patience, Industrious and Worship. In subsequently life he met Marie Laveau and went to the dark side, a confirmed believer in Voodoo.
Or...
And then, my girl just started reading Tom Sawyer for the very commencement fourth dimension, and I am jealous of her!
First of all, she can read it in original, while I read information technology in translation as a child. Second, I wish I could still take that immediate, surprised response to the silly situations. Nearly every five minutes, she comes into my room, reading out loud some funny quotes, making the scenes come alive in my memory once again. The fight between the 2 boys threatening with their fake big brothers, followed by the famous selling of the laurels to accept over Tom's Saturday chore -the fence white washing, and so on, and so on. All that humorous content is being quoted in a voice broken past giggles. Her favourite new expression is "the terms of the adjacent disagreement agreed upon", as used in the context of the deadly serious war games that Tom Sawyer engages in.
She'due south completely mesmerised, and she hasn't even got to the scary parts nevertheless, or to the budding beloved affair.
There is magic in a children'south classic that can make mothers and daughters laugh together at the silliness of naughty boys, and at the fact that very petty has inverse in the dynamics of childhood friendships, despite the time that has passed since the novel was written.
It has only the right mix of exotic, historical appeal and universal human behaviour to make a perfect introduction into globe literature.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (Mark Twain) in 1876, is a virtually engaging children's book. It describes an American boy's babyhood in a rural Southern boondocks in the 19th century. I read this many years ago, and always promised myself that I'd read it again, and you know something? Information technology didn't disappoint. There'southward a reason that it's a classic. Merely lovely.
My coworker and my swain made fun of me when I was reading this because apparently it's written for children and they both read it when younger. I have nothing to say in my defense, I didn't know I don't know most things if that isn't obvious by now. On a related note I probably would have enjoyed this more than when younger. It wasn't bad, it was okay but I wasn't really itching to keep reading it and didn't have that usual urge that I get when reading a really enjoyable book to give up even going to the bathroom in favor of continuing to read. I did really enjoy at the end though when Huck runs away and and then Tom finds him and Huck talks well-nigh how he's just not cut out for being rich and polite society similar aforementioned Huck. Tom tricking people into painting the fence for him was also A+. Anyhow now I tin can pretend to be somewhat cultured since I finally read some Mark Twain which is what clearly matters the about here.
Well, the Prove Me State showed me.
Showed me how you practice it. How y'all write stories so colorfully and then well-crafted, you could most cry from reading them.
Paulette Jiles took me all over the state of Missouri this calendar week, in her 2002 publication of Enemy Women, a historical fiction novel that takes place in 1864, and and then Marking Twain took my daughters and me to St. Petersburg, Missouri, to the real globe of 1876.
And what's in that world of 1876 Missouri?
Well. . . riverboats, wagons, poor white boys, overprotective aunts, pretty girls, adventures in caves. . . and talk of orgies, knives, guns, pipe smoking, and a frequent use of the "N" word.
Equally the narrator of this novel to my daughters, these qualities necessitated an immediate discussion at the start of the volume. Nosotros needed to talk about this, before we went any further in this read.
Here's the deal: I don't use the "N" word, and I don't hang out with people who practise.
I made my boundary clear right every bit nosotros started. I am clever enough to read ahead and say what needs to be said without making myself uncomfortable by using language that twists my intestines.
However, I made something else articulate to my girls: merely because an author depicts their characters authentically does not make them a racist, nor does it make the volume racist.
My children have a writer for a female parent. They know more than they want to know virtually the writing process, and they've besides watched their mother eavesdrop on more than her fair share of conversations. They know by now how obsessed I am with accurate dialogue. I can't stand up any author carbohydrate-coating or contriving what they hear.
Simply, as a mother, would I have enjoyed either of my girls reading the "North" word, over and over again, in this book?
No.
As the narrator and the mom, I chose to go out out all references to the "N" word, skip over the boys' marvel near "orgies" and leave out about half of the talk virtually smoking.
And focus on the good.
The all-time parts for me: watching my daughters express mirth at what a drama queen Tom Sawyer is, and existence reminded of how many "death scenes" Tom conjures upwards in his mind, so he may convince himself that he'south a good person, when he visualizes how many people will mourn him! I loved watching my girls cover upward their faces in disgust when Tom, Huck and Joe stripped downward to their birthday suits on the island, doing handstands and sword fights and whatnot. I couldn't help only be reminded of Out Stealing Horses. My centre kid mumbled, from behind the hands covering her face, "boys are and so repulsive."
Yep, this is a boy's world for sure. These barefooted boys with the ringworm on their scalps and rings of dirt around their necks are a bunch of river rats.
Simply I must give Mr. Twain the credit he deserves here, for bringing these authentic characters to life, though I do understand the difficulty we face reading some of these classics. They are snapshots of how people behaved (how some people withal behave), and sometimes those are painful reminders.
عن مغامرات الطفل الشقي توم سوير وأصدقاءه
The adventures of naughty little male child, Tom Sawyer and his friends.
You won't believe information technology wrote 150 years ago,
as Mark Twain'due south process is uncomplicated and fluid.
He practise non bear witness off with language techniques or dictionary'southward vocabulary.
but adventures and events, no featherbrained metaphors
an enjoyable novel that i have read at one session
On starting reading "Blueberry Finn", I knew that it was the second office of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", then I went dorsum to the first part, since I have a spare time
لن تصدق أن هذه الرواية كتبت قبل 150 عام تقريباً
فأسلوب مارك توين سهل سلس
ولا يستخدم تلك الأساليب اللغوية التي تقوم على الاستعراض بمدى إلمام الكاتب بمفردات القاموس
مغامرات وأحداث، لا استعراض للتشبيهات اللفظية،
رواية مسلية جدا، أنا قرأتها في قعده واحدة تقريباً.
عندما بدأت في قراءة مغامرات هاكلبري فين علمت أنها إنما كانت تعد الجزء الثاني لمغامرات توم سوير، فاستحسنت أن أبدأ بقراءة الجزء الأول مادام لدي المتسع من الوقت.
وهذه هي آخر كلمات الجزء الأول قبل أن يخطر له كتابة جزء تاني عن صديق بطل الجزء الأول، فلم يعط الجزء الأول نهاية لعله يلقانا ثانية:
Despite knowing this story front-and-back, it was nice to finally read the unabridged words of ane of America'south finest storytellers. The scene with Tom lost in the cave is notably incredible, simply Twain'due south folksy prose is a delight throughout. I'm not as familiar with the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tin't expect to start that one soon!
"He was non the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though--and loathed him."
"No, his listen is non for hire
To any god or government.
Ever hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent –
Only change is"
Well, what is there to say about this one? It's one of those novels that is so prominent in pop culture that fifty-fifty if yous take non read it y'all likely know scenes from it (Tom disarming others to paint a contend has been recreated and parodied how many times?). It'south a book that modern readers know going into it pretty much exactly what they're getting. Every bit such I was very unsurprised that I liked information technology.
More surprising is that I actually hadn't read information technology already. I knew many people who were assigned this in classes and indeed I was assigned a Twain novel dorsum in Highschool… but it was Blueberry Finn, not this one (which was actually one of 3 novels I call up actually really liking of my assigned reading).
Now I must say, there is something about this one I did not expect. Many reviewers who read this subsequently in life say that they wished they would have read it when they were a child as they think they would have liked information technology more. I volition be the voice against this. While the book was evidently intended for a younger audience and indeed tin be read past them with possible great delight, I'1000 glad I read it in my thirties rather than pre-teen years. Why? Because Mark Twain is a cynical curmudgeon and I would not accept appreciated that anywhere near as much in my younger days. The best parts of this book are not Tom and Huck'southward antics, they are the scenes where Twain just describes things in his conversational smartass way.
Some of my favorite examples:
"The congregation beingness fully assembled, at present, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only cleaved by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery. The choir e'er tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church building choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where information technology was, now. It was a bully many years ago, and I can scarcely remember annihilation almost it, but I think it was in some strange country."
Or accept for case another great moment after Tom recovers from the measles:
"During 2 long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, expressionless to the earth and its happenings. He was very sick, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every fauna. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got organized religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went near, hoping against hope for the sight of ane blessed sinful face up, merely disappointment crossed him everywhere. He institute Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly abroad from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and institute him visiting the poor with a basket of tracts. He hunted upward Jim Hollis, who chosen his attention to the precious approval of his late measles as a warning. Every male child he encountered added some other ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his middle broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he lone of all the town was lost, forever and forever."
At that place's such a cynical and sarcastic nature that Twain, not any of his quirky side characters of leads, is the most entertaining graphic symbol of the book. Would I take appreciated this commentary as a kid? Perchance some of it, but nowhere almost equally much as I capeesh it now.
Overall this was a fun lilliputian classic to spend some fourth dimension with. I'm glad I finally got around to reading information technology, and am looking forward to reading more Twain with my ain cynical eyes. 4/5 stars
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