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【作者】刘红
【关键词】;迷人;天真;顽皮;英雄主义
【指导老师】唐玲
【专业】英语
【正文】
I. Introduction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain’s first novel about children. It has e an American classic, and it remains perhaps the best novel of all his books among most readers. It owes its greatness to the fact that it can be read and admired not only at ten, twelve, or fourteen years of age, but forever after.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer takes Mark Twain’s youth as the main subject to write. In the novel Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huck, tell stories, fish, and pretend to be pirates along the banks of the Mississippi River. Tom Sawyer is a charming boy. He is mischievous, adventure seeking, and fascinated with bugs. Since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is regarded as a masterpiece in the children’s literature, the real key to its ess must be sought in its popularity among young readers. This paper aims to expose the charming of the hero in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the following aspects.
II. Tom’s Naivety and Innocence
A. Tom’s Love Affair
 “Love affairs are extensively in children’s discussions and appears central to their worldview. They are unaware of some of plexities of love, and would value opportunities to discuss it further, they didn’t know much about life.”1 Furthermore, they are unlikely to understand adequately either how love affairs develop or how peo