Tom Sawyer's Romanticism

From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tom embodies bookish romanticism and elaborate fantasy, in contrast to Huck's pragmatism; he returns disastrously in the final 'evasion' section.
Chapter 2-3

Tom's robber gang and his insistence on doing things 'by the book' - parodies of romantic adventure novels.

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Chapters 34-42

The 'Evasion' - Tom's elaborate scheme to free an already-free Jim, the novel's most controversial sequence.

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