Sid, the Model Boy, and Tom's Foil

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Sid and other 'model boys' serve as foils to Tom, embodying the priggish respectability Twain consistently undermines.
Chapter 1

Sid introduced as 'a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways'—immediately marked as less interesting.

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Chapter 5

Willie Mufferson, 'the Model Boy,' described with withering irony as the pride and 'aversion' of every mother's son.

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