Chapter 3
Tom imagines dying TEMPORARILY to make Aunt Polly sorry.
Read in Books4Free →Motif: Death and Morbid Romance
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Tom repeatedly fantasizes about his own death to punish those who slight him, a recurring comic-romantic motif.
Chapter 8
After Becky rejects him, Tom contemplates being a soldier, an Indian, or—best of all—a pirate, all preferable to life.
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