In this lesson, you will examine the central idea of Chapter 2 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this chapter, Tom uses ingenuity and his knowledge of human nature to convince others to do his assigned chore of painting the fence.

Once you have read the chapter, write a journal entry discussing Tom's theory about work versus play. How does he convince Jim and the other boys to do his work for him? How does his technique with Jim differ from that of the other boys? Why do you think this is? Think about your first impressions of Tom from Chapter 1. Has your opinion of him changed based on the events in this chapter?

Your response should be about 150 words in length, and use details from the text to support your ideas.

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Andre Bray

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22 August, 05:45

In this lesson, you will examine the central idea of Chapter 2 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this chapter, Tom uses ingenuity and his knowledge of human nature to convince others to do his assigned chore of painting the fence.

Once you have read the chapter, write a journal entry discussing Tom's theory about work versus play. How does he convince Jim and the other boys to do his work for him? How does his technique with Jim differ from that of the other boys? Why do you think this is? Think about your first impressions of Tom from Chapter 1. Has your opinion of him changed based on the events in this chapter?

Your response should be about 150 words in length, and use details from the text to support your ideas.

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Alessandro Yang · Answer 1

Answer: Saturdays a beautiful day but tom is stuck working and painting Aunt Polly's fence. He even go jealous of Jim's chore of fetching water, Tom tries to convince Jim to trade chores aunt Polly has already told him not to trade tasks and leave tom to paint the fence, Then tom offers Jim a white marble for the exchange of tasks. Jim resist toms offer to the white marble in exchange of painting some of the fence, then aunt Polly arrives and forces Jim with a smack from her shoe

Bria Daniels · Answer 2

Jim almost agrees and a fence is white washed