The adventures of Tom Sawyer

 "Tom had figured that in order to make a man or a boy want something, all you have to do was make the thing hard to get. He thought about his good luck and went back inside the house. " (p. 19 )

I started to read a book called "The adventure of Tom Sawyer", which is written by Mark Twain. I was not able to read the whole story last week, so I will continue to read this book this week as well. 

As you can see in the title, this is about a boy whose name is Tom Sawyer. The quote is from the chapter in which Tom is punished by his aunt. In one of the most famous scenes in this book, Tom cleverly persuades the various neighborhood children to trade him small treasures for the "privilege" of doing his tedious work, using reverse psychology to convince them it is an enjoyable activity. What I could see as far as I read is that Tom is a sly boy. I am very curious about how the story ends.

Twain, M. (1876). The adventures of Tom Sawyer. State, US: Bendon Publishing.