Poslednji čin. Tom organizuje izlet za Beki Tačer i celu školu u pećinu Mekdugal. Oni se igraju skrivača u mraku. Tom i Beki, da bi pobegli od ostalih, odlaze preduboko.
Gube se. Ostaju bez sveća. Hleb im nestaje. Beki leži na hladnom kamenu, gotovo mrtva od straha. Tom luta hodnicima, prstom obeležava zidove, i u jednom trenutku nailazi na Indijanca Džoa – koji sedi u mraku, ne znajući izlaz.
Tom beži u drugi pravac, ali ovo je najstrašniji momenat romana: dečak i ubica u istom lavirintu, bez svetla.
Nakon tri dana, Tom pronalazi izlaz – mali otvor iznad reke. On i Beki su spašeni. Grad je u delirijumu radosti.
Sudija Tačer (Bekin otac) kaže: "Nikada više niko neće ući u tu pećinu. Zazidaćemo vrata."
Tom problijedi. Pita: "A šta je sa Indijancem Džoom?"
Kada su otvorili zazidana vrata, unutra je pronađen Indijanac Džo – mrtav od gladi, naslonjen na ulaz. Pored njega je bila sveća, nož i nekoliko zalogaja.
Chapter 1: Tom Disappears, Then Appears The story opens in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. We meet Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy living with his strict Aunt Polly, his half-brother Sid (a goody-goody tattletale), and his cousin Mary. Aunt Polly searches the house for Tom and finds him in the closet with jam on his face. She raises her switch, but Tom cleverly yells, "Look behind you!" and escapes over the fence. Later, Aunt Polly forces him to whitewash the fence as punishment for skipping school and fighting with a new boy. That evening, Tom meets the new boy in town—Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunkard. Huck is a free spirit, hated by all mothers but admired by all boys. They discuss cures for warts, and Tom tests Huck’s dead-cat ritual.
Chapter 2: The Glorious Whitewasher Tom sits on the pavement, contemplating the misery of painting 30 yards of board fence. He envies the other boys playing in the distance. Then he has a brilliant idea. When Ben Rogers comes by pretending to be a steamboat, Tom pretends that whitewashing is a privilege, not a chore. "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" he asks. Soon, every boy in town is begging to paint, offering their treasures in exchange—a kite, a dead rat, a door-knob. Tom sits in the shade, counting his wealth, while the fence gets three coats of paint. He learns a great law of human action: To make a man want something, make it hard to get.
Chapter 3: Love and War After finishing the fence, Tom reports to Aunt Polly, who is so impressed she gives him an apple. On his way out, he also steals a doughnut. He then goes to the town square, where he encounters the "new girl"—Becky Thatcher, a blue-eyed beauty with yellow hair braided into two pigtails. Tom falls instantly in love, showing off with somersaults and fence-vaulting. But when he whispers, "I love you," she calls him a liar and walks away. Humiliated, Tom goes home and goes to bed. Aunt Polly, thinking he’s sick, gives him medicine. Sid snitches that Tom said the medicine was "bitter," so Tom pours the medicine down a crack in the floor—only to discover a cat drinking it and leaping out the window in a frenzy.
Chapter 4: Sunday School Superstar The next morning, Tom tries to learn Bible verses to earn a prized Blue Ticket (which leads to a Bible as a prize). He’s lazy, so he trades marbles, a piece of a kite, and a dead rat for tickets from other boys. He walks to the front of the church, pretending to have memorized two thousand verses. Judge Thatcher (Becky’s father) asks him the names of the first two disciples. Tom blurts out, "David and Goliath!" The church laughs. Aunt Polly is mortified, but Tom escapes punishment—and even gets a Bible. tom sojer prepricano po glavama
Chapter 5: The Pinch-Bug Sermon In church, the minister gives a long, boring sermon about missionaries. Tom entertains himself by letting a pinch-bug (a beetle) crawl on the pew. A stray poodle wanders in, sees the bug, and tries to play with it. The bug pinches the dog’s nose, and the poodle yelps, races around the church, and finally jumps into the lap of a sleeping old lady. The entire congregation shakes with suppressed laughter. Tom is delighted. The sermon ends, and everyone agrees it was the best service in years.
Chapter 6: The Wart Cure Monday morning. Tom fakes a toothache to avoid school. Aunt Polly pulls his tooth—no pain—and sends him anyway. On the way, he meets Huck Finn carrying a dead cat. They agree to meet at midnight in the graveyard to cure warts using the ritual: throw the cat at a devil’s coffin and say, "Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat—I’m done with ye!" At school, Tom is punished for talking to Becky Thatcher. He is made to sit with the girls. He draws a picture of a house, then writes "I love you" on his slate. Becky sees it. They become engaged—for ten minutes, until Tom accidentally mentions his former sweetheart, Amy Lawrence. Becky bursts into tears. Tom walks away, heartbroken.
Chapter 7: The Tick and the Temper In class, Tom and his friend Joe Harper play with a tick on a desk. They fight over it, and the teacher whips them both. Later, Tom tries to make up with Becky, but she snubs him. In revenge, he says, "I’m glad it’s you, Becky Thatcher, that’s mad, because I used to like Amy Lawrence, and now I’m going to like her again." Becky throws her slate on the floor. School ends, and Tom goes home miserable.
Chapter 8: The Pirate’s Resolve Tom runs into the woods, pretending to be Robin Hood. He meets Joe Harper, and they act out a grand forest battle, complete with imaginary arrows and death scenes. But Tom’s heart isn’t in it. He decides that no one loves him. He will run away and become a pirate—or a soldier, then a chief, then a hermit. He carves a message on a tree: "Tom Sawyer died today at sunset." He imagines Becky finding it and crying.
Chapter 9: The Murder in the Graveyard Midnight. Tom and Huck sneak into the old graveyard with the dead cat. They hide behind three large elms. Soon three figures arrive: Dr. Robinson, the villainous Injun Joe, and the drunken Muff Potter. Injun Joe demands more money. Dr. Robinson refuses. A fight breaks out. Injun Joe stabs the doctor with Muff Potter’s own knife. As the doctor falls, Muff Potter is knocked unconscious. Injun Joe puts the bloody knife in Muff’s hand. When Muff wakes, Injun Joe swears he saw Muff do it. Tom and Huck, trembling, swear a blood oath never to tell what they saw.
Chapter 10: The Oath and the Tick Tom and Huck run home, terrified. They write their oath in blood on a pine shingle, promising to keep silent. Huck believes Injun Joe’s supernatural powers—the man has a forked tongue, they say, and can see in the dark. Tom sleeps poorly. The next morning, the whole town is in an uproar: Muff Potter has been arrested for murder. Tom feels sick with guilt.
Chapter 11: The Murderer’s Tears Muff Potter is dragged into the courtroom, dirty and weeping. Injun Joe testifies calmly that he saw Muff do it. Tom cannot meet Muff’s eyes. He visits Muff in jail, bringing him tobacco and small comforts. Muff thanks him. Tom leaves in tears. He knows he must speak—but Injun Joe will kill him if he does.
Chapter 12: The Cat and the Cure Aunt Polly believes Tom is sick with guilt—though she doesn’t know why. She tries every remedy in the book: hot baths, cold baths, pain-killer (a powerful alcoholic medicine). Tom hates the pain-killer. One day, he pours it down a crack in the floor—again. But this time, the cat laps it up and goes wild, crashing into furniture. Aunt Polly finally realizes the truth: she doesn’t understand boys, but she loves Tom anyway.
Chapter 13: The Pirates of Jackson’s Island Tom has had enough. He decides to run away. He recruits Joe Harper (who has been whipped for drinking cream) and Huck Finn. That night, they steal a log raft and sail to Jackson’s Island, two miles downstream. They call themselves the Black Avengers of the Spanish Main. They eat bacon, smoke corncob pipes, and pretend to be pirates. Meanwhile, back in town, the villagers drag the river for their drowned bodies. Tom sneaks home one night, hides under Aunt Polly’s bed, and hears her sob: "If only I’d been kinder to that child." Tom is moved nearly to tears.
Chapter 14: The Pirates Return After three days, the boys grow homesick. But Tom has a grand idea. On Sunday morning, during their own funeral service in the town church, the three "dead" boys walk in the door—soaking wet from their raft. The congregation gasps. Aunt Polly hugs Tom and cries. Joe Harper’s mother faints. The boys are heroes. Poslednji čin
Chapter 15: The Confession The murder trial begins. Muff Potter sits in chains, expecting the noose. On the final day, Tom is called as a witness. He hesitates—then points at Injun Joe and shouts, "He did it!" Tom describes the murder in the graveyard, every detail. Injun Joe leaps from his seat, smashes a window, and escapes. Muff Potter is freed. That night, Tom has nightmares of Injun Joe’s red eyes.
Chapter 16: The Treasure Hunt Tom decides that Injun Joe will come for revenge. He and Huck plan to find the treasure Injun Joe hid—a box of gold coins. They search haunted houses, dig under dead trees, and nearly faint from fear. One day, they watch a haunted house from a distance and see Injun Joe enter in disguise. He digs up a box of silver and gold—$12,000. He hides it under the floorboards of the house. Tom and Huck now know where the treasure is, but they cannot reach it without being seen.
Chapter 17: The Revenge Injun Joe discovers he is being watched. He swears revenge on "the half-breed’s enemy"—meaning Tom Sawyer. That night, Huck follows Injun Joe to a room at the Temperance Tavern. He hears him say, "Tonight we’ll kill the Widow Douglas." Huck runs to fetch help. The townspeople chase Injun Joe, but he escapes into the woods.
Chapter 18: In the Cave Judge Thatcher organizes a picnic in McDougal’s Cave—a vast, winding labyrinth of passages, stalactites, and underground streams. Tom and Becky wander too far from the group. Their candle burns out. They are lost. Days pass. Becky faints from hunger and exhaustion. Tom leaves her to explore one last passage. He sees a light—and Injun Joe, crouched in the dark, holding a candle. Tom runs back to Becky, and they find a hidden exit—a small hole at the top of a cliff. They escape. The town rejoices.
Chapter 19: Justice in the Cave Judge Thatcher orders the cave entrance sealed with a heavy iron door. Tom tells him, "But Judge, Injun Joe is still inside." They rush to the cave. When they open the door, they find Injun Joe lying dead on the stone floor, his candle burned out, his fingers clawed raw from scraping the rock walls. He had starved to death. The town buries him at the crossroads with a stake through his heart.
Chapter 20: The Fortune Tom leads Huck to the cave. They crawl to a cross Tom had scratched on the wall—"The Cross of Treasure." Behind a rock, they find the box of gold. Twelve thousand dollars—split equally, $6,000 each. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck and tries to "civilize" him. Huck hates it. Tom promises to start a new gang—Tom Sawyer’s Gang of Robbers—and Huck agrees to return to the widow’s house… for now.
Chapter 21: The Moral The book ends with Tom Sawyer as a hero, rich, and still mischievous. He has learned that lying can be useful, that adventure is its own reward, and that even the worst boy can have a heart of gold. But as Mark Twain writes in the final line: "So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the rest is just growing up."
Doživljaji Toma Sojera (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), autora Marka Tvena, klasik je svetske književnosti koji prati odrastanje vragolastog dečaka u gradiću Sent Petersburgu na reci Misisipi. Roman je napisan u 35 poglavlja i predstavlja kombinaciju avanture, humora i društvene kritike. Prepričano po glavama (Ključne celine)
Glavne 1–4: Nestašluci i kaznaRoman počinje Tomovim skrivanjem od tetke Poli i tučom sa novim dečakom u gradu. Za kaznu, Tom u subotu mora da kreči ogradu. On lukavo ubedi druge dečake da je to privilegija, pa oni na kraju plaćaju njemu da urade posao umesto njega. Tom kasnije koristi dobijene sitnice da "kupi" kupone u nedeljnoj školi i osvoji Bibliju kao nagradu, ali se osramoti kada ne zna da odgovori na osnovno pitanje o biblijskim ličnostima. Tom Sojer Opsirno Prepricanje | PDF - Scribd
I've created it in the style of a social media post (e.g., for Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter/X). Chapter 1: Tom Disappears, Then Appears The story
Priča mrači. Ovo nije više samo dečja igra. Tom i Hak odlaze na gradsko groblje u ponoć (da izleče bradavice mrtvom mačkom). Tamo prisustvuju ubistvu.
Doktor Robinson, mladić Mef Poter i Indijanac Džo su tamo da otkopaju telo radi "medicinske studije" (tadašnji eufemizam za krađu leševa za anatomiju). Izbija svađa. Indijanac Džo ubode doktora nožem, a zatim ubeđuje pijanog Potera, koji je pao u nesvest, da ga je on ubio.
Poter poveruje. Tom i Hak se kunu na bure sa duvanom da nikada nikome neće reći istinu. Ali krivica gori. Kada suđenje počne i kada jasno postane da će nevinog Mefa Potera obesiti, Tom ne može da izdrži.
Izlazi na sud. U najnapetijoj sceni knjige – sceni koju moramo "prepričati po glavama" jer se urezuje u pamćenje – Tom pokazuje prstom prema Indijancu Džou i viče: "On je to uradio!"
Sudija bledi. Publika zapomaže. Indijanac Džo razbija prozor i beži.
Ovo je tačka u kojoj Tom prestaje da bude samo nestašan dečak. On postaje moralni stub – dečak koji rizikuje sopstveni život (jer Indijanac Džo je povezao bežanjem pretnjom) da bi spasio nevinog čoveka.
"Tom Sojer" je više od dečje avanture — to je priča o odrastanju, prijateljstvu, hrabrosti i prvoj ljubavi. Mark Tven kroz humor i živopisne opise pokazuje složenost detinjstva: kako mašta pomaže da se prevaziđu strahovi, ali i kako odgovornost i istina vode ka sazrevanju. Knjiga i danas ostaje relevantna jer podseća čitaoca da u svakom od nas postoji deo koji želi slobodu, igre i pravu hrabrost.
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