The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A novel written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens also more commonly known as Mark Twain. Samuel was born in 1835 in what he called "the almost invisible village" in Florida, Missouri. As a youth, he and his family moved to Hannibal Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He later used this city as the fictional St. Petersburg in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." While Samuel Clemens was enjoying all his fame, he and his family were living in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was writing "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." This story is a novel; it is an adventure/novel set in the 19th century. The themes revolve around friendship, imagination, truth and lies. The novel is set in the 1840s in a fictional community/village in St. Petersburg, Missouri; a place where everyone is close and knows each other. Mark Twain makes this fictional community a “real community”. The novel is told in the third person, with limited omniscience, with Tom Sawyer being the central consciousness, meaning the narrators are the main protagonists of the stories. The events are told as they experience them, so the story is primarily told about Tom and the world he lives in. The story centers on him through a narrator who can understand the emotions, motivations, and feelings of another character. The realism of this story lies in the fact that it involves the imitation and description of characters and situations that seem illustrated from real life. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” shows and depicts a mischievous, imaginative and trouble-making boy in the American West in the 1840s. Tom Sawyer lives with his deceased mother's sister, Aunt Polly, and his half-brother, Sid. . Tom Sawyer is in the middle of the paper...and generates interest throughout the novel. This triggers a dangerous entanglement in Tom's life with the murderous Injun Joe. After Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn witness the murder, they run away from home and solemnly promise each other to never return home. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” has remained famous around the world for more than 120 years since its publication in 1876. Mark Twain himself called this novel a “hymn to childhood.” Works Cited “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” Novels for students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley. Flight. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 1-24. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. April 9, 2014. “Tom Sawyer.” Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2014. Web. April 9, 2014. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” Masterpieces of world literature. HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. 9+. Gale Power Research. Internet. April 9. 2014.