“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
This is a great American novel about the mischievous adventures of a boy named Tom Sawyer.
Right from the get go we get that old childhood feel of carefreeness and wonder, in a small town environment where the orphan Sawyer lived with his aunt Polly, half-brother Sid and cousin Marry. The book is a never ending suspense of what will Sawyer do next with his juvenile demeanor and clever tricks. And when he eventually meet Huckleberry Finn? Forget about it, it’s a match made in hell.
Their days are filled with skipping school to play, sneaking out of the house at night, trading “treasures” that they find (including a tooth), performing a superstitious ritual at a graveyard at midnight, witnessing a gruesome murder, forming a robber gang, meeting Indians, went out for an adventure for few days with another friend – Joe Harper – without telling anyone (and were presumed dead) to become pirates in the Mississippi river, and of course making a surprise appearance at their own joint funeral.
Mind you, however, this is a book written in 1876 with all its charms and backwardness. And this includes casual racism that was the norm at the time. Still a classic though, considering the context of its time, that is filled with humor, wit and veiled social criticism that became Mark Twain’s signature style.
THE CHAOS THEORY 