Talk:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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[edit] Discussion
Ahem, anyways I came here to ask why no one added the sattire in here; one of the main things Samuel Langhorne Clemens(a.k.a. Mark Twain) did was sattire and ridicule the society of the day. One example and a rather minor one (I'm adding it because it is prehaps the most obvious) includes when Mark Twain talks about the scripture ticket system, when a German boy memorizes three thousand lines of scripture, but is rendered little more than an idiot after that. It is an obvious sattire on the memonic education system, because the kid memorized but probably did not understand; or simply had devoted so much of his brain to learning these that he lacked the capacity for anything else. A less obvious one is at the end of chapter two, when the author is reflecting about a great law of human action. (He had discovered a...then they would resign.) Here he is sattiring the worth of relatively equivilant things when you add money, which, incidentally, can be used for more things, which are also relatively equal until you factor money into the equation. The point being, I think someone with better composition skills than I should factor in examples of Mark Twain's sattires into the page, and here were some starters.
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That is something rather notable; if you look around the only (and distant) connection with satire is under the satire article, where it (briefly) notes that Mark Twain was the most notable 19th century satirist. In fact, this article needs cleaning, so tomorrow I'll see to a spot of revision.
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anybody know how to do the stub thingy? Evil Deep Blue 00:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC) == == =='''''''
- Stubbed, although I'm shocked it hadn't been done yet. I'm also convinced that the list of different online editions (which takes up more page space than the main article at the moment!) is in need of significant pruning, although all I felt up to was deleting a duplicate Project Gutenberg listing. Also, I changed the info box as best as I could to reflect the first edition; I'm assuming with all the variant versions a public domain version can go through, we want to go with the original printing. --Enwilson 14:04, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] plot?
where the heck is the plot? samphex 01:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
Into this article if anywhere not into Tom Sawyer. This is the book which is the literary item. The article could do with plenty of work.! :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Merge is a very poor idea. Tom Sawyer appears in multiple books -- not just this one -- and is a major character in American Literature. This book, however, is also incredibly important in American Literature, and suggesting to merge it into an article on the character is a joke. --JayHenry 22:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Themez
The only major theme is... Friendship?
Is that all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Tien Dao (talk • contribs) 18:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I deleted it temporarily. It was far too simplistic and I hope that somebody will come along and post a somewhat decent "theme" paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.240.190.20 (talk) 03:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Link to Wikisource
Could someone change the link to Wikisource in the external links section to this template:
by typing{{wikisource|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer}}. Thank you.--99.244.66.12 (talk) 23:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, I'll do it.--99.244.66.12 (talk) 23:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
