"There's more honor"
"Unlike Huck's experience of play and of life in general, Tom's sort of life, what I will call the "boy-play world," could only exist within the society Twain is critiquing. Yet, describing Tom's play as self-gratifying should not suggest that it must necessarily work to a negative effect or function solely as critique."
As I read through the interactions of Tom and Huck it always seemed that Tom was always having a negative effect. Tom's part of the story seems to be a "boy-play world," where he acts on his playful selfish whims, but that is only my opinion.
As I read through the interactions of Tom and Huck it always seemed that Tom was always having a negative effect. Tom's part of the story seems to be a "boy-play world," where he acts on his playful selfish whims, but that is only my opinion.
Tom is in fact selfish as we have seen in the book. The critical point in the story, I feel, for Tom is when he gets shot. The made -up adventure he deploys almost gets him killed. Sort of on the karma side.