The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In general, pieces of literature tend to give off a feel of the time period in which they are written. ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’, by Mark Twain, is a novel which was written in the 1870’s and gives a superior understanding of what society was like in this era. Education and religion were very important to the morals and values of the people of this time; they were both taken more seriously than they are now. Another aspect of the 1870’s that was portrayed in this novel was the poor health care. Mark Twain displayed the thinking process of this time period when he included the small, but noticeable amount of racism towards the “still not yet quite equal in this time period” African- American race. Additionally, Twain gave the “Frontier Era” familiarity when he introduced his characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. These characters were used to unleash the “rebel” typecast and demonstrated what was inappropriate for the time. ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer�...