Tom Sawyer Chapters 1-3

Tom Sawyer, a young boy that lives with his Aunt Polly in the country near the river. The story starts with his Aunt Polly yelling for him. Eventually, she hears him leave the closet and tries to run past her unnoticed. But she grabbed his shirt just before he passed her. Seeing jam on his hands and mouth she became angry at him and started yelling. This tells us that she has a easy temper and is constantly annoyed. After she grabbed Tom, he found a way to distract her to look the other way. Once this happened he ran from the house and jumped the fence. This tells us that Tom doesn't think of anything besides hanging out with friends and fishing. Later, Tom decides not to go to school, but instead he ditches and fools around with his friends. Aunt Polly knows that Tom was going to do this because he usually did on fridays. Later that night during supper, Aunt polly asked him questions that were full of guile. And eventually she knows for a fact that he didn't attend school. But she forgives him and said that he was a single cat. But she still made him work all saturday morning even though he always was with his friends.