Tom Sawyer needs no elaborate introduction. Everyone knows him; a boy full of mischief, yet pure at heart. He is perhaps best remembered for brainwashing a number of other boys to whitewash Aunt Polly’s fence by making the work seem to be extremely absorbing, only because he finds the task unpleasant. He is considered to be the epitome of American boyhood.
Tom Sawyer first appears in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The name of the character was based on Tom Sawyer, a jolly and flamboyant local hero whom Twain met in San Francisco.
Tom appears in many other works of Twain including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians.
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians was abandoned by Twain after finishing the first few chapters and do not have a complete plot.
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