Inside the story
Meet Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is Huck Finn’s book-loving, adventure-mad friend from town. When Huck helps Jim escape, Tom turns the straightforward rescue into an elaborate evasion modeled on romantic adventure novels, putting style and spectacle ahead of the risks to others.
On the page
A boy about Huck's age but tidier and better dressed, with a lively, mischievous, bright-eyed face and brown hair. Town clothes rather than river rags mark him as a boy from a settled, respectable household.
