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Описание
Том Сойер, озорный мальчик, живет в доме тети Полли и постоянно устраивает проделки. Сначала он учится ценить труд и дружбу, затем сталкивается с внутренним конфликтом, связанным с тайной и преступлением, и, наконец, ищет свободу в пиратстве и сокровищах, но в итоге понимает, что истинное счастье – в семье и ответственности.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Том Сойер борется с внутренним конфликтом между желанием приключений и необходимостью отвечать перед семьёй и обществом, а также с тайной, которую он скрывает, и последствиями своих действий.
Ключевые идеи
- Молодой Том Сойер – символ беззаботной детской жизни и склонности к проделкам.
- Тетя Полли представляет строгую, но заботливую фигуру, пытающуюся удержать Тома от безделья.
- Труд и игра находятся в постоянном взаимодействии: труд делает вещи желанными, а игра поддерживает дух.
- Дружба и взаимопомощь среди детей помогают преодолевать трудности и учат ценить совместные усилия.
- Учеба и награды в воскресной школе формируют характер Тома.
- Дружба и взаимная поддержка среди мальчиков важны для их развития.
- Том проявляет коварство и игривость, но также стремится к признанию и уважению.
- Моральный конфликт и тяжесть тайны, которую несёт Том
- Клятва молчания как символ обязательства и страх перед последствиями
- Отчаяние и поиск свободы как мотивация к пиратству
- Дружба и совместные планы как способ справиться с одиночеством
- Внутренний конфликт и осознание ценности семьи
Вывод
Книга приводит к выводу, что свобода и приключения важны, но истинное счастье и удовлетворение достигаются через семейные связи, дружбу и ответственность перед собой и окружающими.
Кому полезна
- Дети и подростки, интересующиеся приключенческими историями
- Семьи, ищущие уроки о ценностях и ответственности
- Любители классической американской литературы
Главные темы
- Детская беззаботность и проделки
- Дружба и взаимопомощь
- Внутренний конфликт и моральный рост
- Покорение свободы и поиск приключений
- Семейные ценности и ответственность
Персонажи
- Tom Sawyer — Любит проделки, но постепенно осознаёт ценность труда и дружбы. Стремится к признанию, любит шалости, но также ценит знания. Боится раскрытия преступления, испытывает внутренний конфликт. Решает стать пиратом, но осознаёт ценность семьи. Молодой, любопытный, импульсивный, ищет приключения, смелый и находчивый, стремится к свободе.
- Becky Thatcher — Том влюблен в неё, но она привлекает внимание других мальчиков. Том ревнует к её вниманию и испытывает конфликт. Она считается его возлюбленной.
- Huck Finn — Хак всегда готов к развлечениям, не боится рисковать, следит за Джо, но не вмешивается, чтобы не раскрыть тайну. Ценит свободу, но испытывает внутренний конфликт после получения богатства.
- Aunt Polly — Стремится удержать Тома от безделья и проделок, иногда проявляет сострадание. Применяет странные методы лечения, включая воду и «пейн‑киллер».
- Mary — Показывает терпение и поощряет Тома за учебу, но также выражает недовольство его поступками.
- Joe Harper — Старший брат Хакки, соглашается стать пиратом.
- Mr. Watterson — Проводит уроки, устанавливает систему наград и поддерживает порядок.
- Judge Fryer — Том следит за его состоянием и вынужден отречься от ордена.
- Maf Potter — Поттер лежит в окне, присутствие усиливает страх Тома. Том свидетельствует о его присутствии в кладбище, что приводит к оправданию.
- Indjen Joe — Том подозревает связь с преступлением, но не имеет доказательств. Он играет ключевую роль в суде.
- Sid — Часто конфликтует с Томом, но в конце главы они приходят к взаимопониманию.
- Emily Lawrence — Том испытывает к ней романтические чувства, но они быстро исчезают.
Цитаты
- I can lick you!
- Well, I never! There's no getting round it, you can work when you're a mind to, Tom.
- "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
- "I LOVE YOU."
- "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about This and They wish They may Drop down dead in Their Tracks if They ever Tell and Rot."
- "I don't know, aunt, and I never see him get around so since—"
- У Тома теперь решимость.
- Что это!
- "I bet there's been pirates on this island before, boys. We'll explore it again. They've hid treasures here somewhere."
- "Quick! boys, go for the tent!"
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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)
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Страница 4 из 58"Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?"
Tom wheeled suddenly and said:
"Why, it's you, Ben! I warn't noticing."
"Say—I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther WORK—wouldn't you? Course you would!"
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:
"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you LIKE it?"
The brush continued to move.
"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a touch here and there—criticised the effect again—Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:
"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little."
Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:
"No—no—I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence—right here on the street, you know—but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."
"No—is that so? Oh come, now—lemme just try. Only just a little—I'd let YOU, if you was me, Tom."
"Ben, I'd like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly—well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid. Now don't you see how I'm fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it—"
"Oh, shucks, I'll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say—I'll give you the core of my apple."
"Well, here—No, Ben, now don't. I'm afeard—"
"I'll give you ALL of it!"
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with—and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar—but no dog—the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.
He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while—plenty of company—and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
CHAPTER III
TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting—for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety. She had thought that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in this intrepid way. He said: "Mayn't I go and play now, aunt?"
"What, a'ready? How much have you done?"
"Tom, don't lie to me—I can't bear it."
"I ain't, aunt; it IS all done."
Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom's statement true. When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. She said:
"Well, I never! There's no getting round it, you can work when you're a mind to, Tom." And then she diluted the compliment by adding, "But it's powerful seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say. Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a doughnut.
Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor. Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it. His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble.
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I warn't noticing.\""},{"id":"id339:26","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Say—I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther WORK—wouldn't you? Course you would!\""},{"id":"id339:27","kind":"paragraph","text":"Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:"},{"id":"id339:28","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What do you call work?\""},{"id":"id339:29","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Why, ain't THAT work?\""},{"id":"id339:30","kind":"paragraph","text":"Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:"},{"id":"id339:31","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.\""},{"id":"id339:32","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you LIKE it?\""},{"id":"id339:33","kind":"paragraph","text":"The brush continued to move."},{"id":"id339:34","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?\""},{"id":"id339:35","kind":"paragraph","text":"That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a touch here and there—criticised the effect again—Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:"},{"id":"id339:36","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little.\""},{"id":"id339:37","kind":"paragraph","text":"Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:"},{"id":"id339:38","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"No—no—I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence—right here on the street, you know—but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done.\""},{"id":"id339:39","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"No—is that so? Oh come, now—lemme just try. Only just a little—I'd let YOU, if you was me, Tom.\""},{"id":"id339:40","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Ben, I'd like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly—well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid. Now don't you see how I'm fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it—\""},{"id":"id339:41","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, shucks, I'll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say—I'll give you the core of my apple.\""},{"id":"id339:42","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, here—No, Ben, now don't. I'm afeard—\""},{"id":"id339:43","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I'll give you ALL of it!\""},{"id":"id339:44","kind":"paragraph","text":"Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with—and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar—but no dog—the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash."},{"id":"id339:45","kind":"paragraph","text":"He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while—plenty of company—and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village."},{"id":"id339:46","kind":"paragraph","text":"Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign."},{"id":"id339:47","kind":"paragraph","text":"The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report."},{"id":"id338:0","kind":"heading","text":"CHAPTER III"},{"id":"id338:1","kind":"paragraph","text":"TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting—for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety. She had thought that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in this intrepid way. He said: \"Mayn't I go and play now, aunt?\""},{"id":"id338:2","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What, a'ready? How much have you done?\""},{"id":"id338:3","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It's all done, aunt.\""},{"id":"id338:4","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Tom, don't lie to me—I can't bear it.\""},{"id":"id338:5","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I ain't, aunt; it IS all done.\""},{"id":"id338:6","kind":"paragraph","text":"Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom's statement true. When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. She said:"},{"id":"id338:7","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, I never! There's no getting round it, you can work when you're a mind to, Tom.\" And then she diluted the compliment by adding, \"But it's powerful seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say. Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.\""},{"id":"id338:8","kind":"paragraph","text":"She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he \"hooked\" a doughnut."},{"id":"id338:9","kind":"paragraph","text":"Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor. Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it. His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble."}],"toc":[{"id":"id343:0:1","label":"Annotation","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT#reader-content"},{"id":"id342:0:1","label":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT#reader-content"},{"id":"id341:0:1","label":"PREFACE","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT#reader-content"},{"id":"id340:0:1","label":"CHAPTER I","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT#reader-content"},{"id":"id339:0:3","label":"CHAPTER II","page":3,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=3#reader-content"},{"id":"id338:0:4","label":"CHAPTER III","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"id337:0:6","label":"CHAPTER IV","page":6,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=6#reader-content"},{"id":"id336:0:9","label":"CHAPTER V","page":9,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=9#reader-content"},{"id":"id335:0:10","label":"CHAPTER VI","page":10,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=10#reader-content"},{"id":"id334:0:13","label":"CHAPTER VII","page":13,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=13#reader-content"},{"id":"id333:0:15","label":"CHAPTER VIII","page":15,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=15#reader-content"},{"id":"id332:0:16","label":"CHAPTER IX","page":16,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=16#reader-content"},{"id":"id331:0:18","label":"CHAPTER X","page":18,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=18#reader-content"},{"id":"id330:0:20","label":"CHAPTER XI","page":20,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=20#reader-content"},{"id":"id329:0:21","label":"CHAPTER XII","page":21,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=21#reader-content"},{"id":"id328:0:22","label":"CHAPTER XIII","page":22,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=22#reader-content"},{"id":"id327:0:24","label":"CHAPTER XIV","page":24,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=24#reader-content"},{"id":"id326:0:26","label":"CHAPTER XV","page":26,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=26#reader-content"},{"id":"id325:0:27","label":"CHAPTER XVI","page":27,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=27#reader-content"},{"id":"id324:0:30","label":"CHAPTER XVII","page":30,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=30#reader-content"},{"id":"id323:0:31","label":"CHAPTER XVIII","page":31,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=31#reader-content"},{"id":"id322:0:33","label":"CHAPTER XIX","page":33,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=33#reader-content"},{"id":"id321:0:34","label":"CHAPTER XX","page":34,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=34#reader-content"},{"id":"id320:0:35","label":"CHAPTER XXI","page":35,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=35#reader-content"},{"id":"id319:0:36","label":"\"A MISSOURI MAIDEN'S FAREWELL TO ALABAMA\"","page":36,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=36#reader-content"},{"id":"id319:4:36","label":"\"A VISION","page":36,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=36#reader-content"},{"id":"id318:0:37","label":"CHAPTER XXII","page":37,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=37#reader-content"},{"id":"id317:0:38","label":"CHAPTER XXIII","page":38,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=38#reader-content"},{"id":"id316:0:39","label":"CHAPTER XXIV","page":39,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=39#reader-content"},{"id":"id315:0:40","label":"CHAPTER XXV","page":40,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=40#reader-content"},{"id":"id314:0:41","label":"CHAPTER XVI","page":41,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=41#reader-content"},{"id":"id313:0:43","label":"CHAPTER XXVII","page":43,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=43#reader-content"},{"id":"id312:0:44","label":"CHAPTER XXVIII","page":44,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=44#reader-content"},{"id":"id311:0:45","label":"CHAPTER XXIX","page":45,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=45#reader-content"},{"id":"id310:0:47","label":"CHAPTER XXX","page":47,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=47#reader-content"},{"id":"id39:0:49","label":"CHAPTER XXXI","page":49,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=49#reader-content"},{"id":"id38:0:52","label":"CHAPTER XXXII","page":52,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=52#reader-content"},{"id":"id37:0:53","label":"CHAPTER XXXIII","page":53,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=53#reader-content"},{"id":"id36:0:55","label":"CHAPTER XXXIV","page":55,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=55#reader-content"},{"id":"id35:0:56","label":"CHAPTER XXXV","page":56,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=56#reader-content"},{"id":"id35:38:58","label":"notes","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=58#reader-content"},{"id":"id34:0:58","label":"Примечания","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=58#reader-content"},{"id":"id33:0:58","label":"1","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=58#reader-content"},{"id":"id32:0:58","label":"2","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=58#reader-content"},{"id":"id31:0:58","label":"3","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/46ck5edT?page=58#reader-content"}]},"similarBooks":[{"idCatalog":787516,"shortId":"038AHbna","title":"Человек-зверь","authorLine":"Эмиль Золя, В. 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