====================================================================== = Tom_Sawyer = ====================================================================== Introduction ====================================================================== Thomas "Tom" Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884), 'Tom Sawyer Abroad' (1894), and 'Tom Sawyer, Detective' (1896). He is around 12 to 13 years old. Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, 'Huck and Tom Among the Indians', 'Schoolhouse Hill', and 'Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy'. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only 'Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy' has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. It is set in the 1840s along the Mississippi. Inspiration ====================================================================== The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant chief named Tom Sawyer, with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at 'The San Francisco Call'. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth: "Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: 'I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.' 'Go ahead, Sam,' I said, 'but don't disgrace my name.'" Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in ), William Bowen (who died in ), and himself. However, Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but Robert Graysmith said, "The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind." Personality ====================================================================== Tom Sawyer is mischievous and sometimes gets himself and his friends into trouble. He is also superstitious but he actually has a pure heart. He is not really a bad boy and is just capable of generosity and occasionally surprises even himself into bad situations. Portrayals ====================================================================== Actors who have portrayed Tom Sawyer in films and TV: Name Date !Notes Jack 1917 Film, 'Tom Sawyer' Gordon 1920 Film, 'Huckleberry Finn' Jackie 1930, 1931 Films, 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn' Tommy Kelly 1938 Film, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' Billy Cook 1938 Film, 'Tom Sawyer, Detective' Michael Miller 1944 Film, 'The Adventures of Mark Twain' Robert Hyatt 1955 Film, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' John Sharpe 1956 TV musical, 'Tom Sawyer' Kevin 1968 TV series, 'The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' Roland Demongeot 1968 Romanian/French/German TV series 'Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer'/'Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer' Johnny 1973 Film, 'Tom Sawyer' Don 1975 Film, 'Huckleberry Finn' Sam 1979 TV series, 'Huckleberry Finn and His Friends' Patrick 1981 TV film, 'Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn' Fyodor Stukov 1981 Soviet three-episode TV miniseries, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn' Chris Ritchie 1985 Film, 'The Adventures of Mark Twain' Eugene Oakes 1986 TV series, 'American Playhouse Series 5': 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' parts I, II, III and IV Raphael 1990 TV film, 'Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn' Jonathan Taylor 1995 Film, 'Tom and Huck' Rhett 2000 Voice, animated musical film, 'Tom Sawyer' Grey 2003 Voice, animated TV series, 'The Fairly OddParents' Shane 2003 Film, 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Louis 2011, 2012 Film, 'Tom Sawyer)', 'Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn' Joel 2014 Film, 'Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn' Adam 2015 Film, 'Band of Robbers' Jeremy 2015 3DS game, 'Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.' Reilly Jacob 2016 TV series, 'Once Upon a Time' |Seth Green |2016 |TV series, Family Guy External links ====================================================================== * * *[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain] at Project Gutenberg *[https://archive.org/details/tom_sawyer_librivox 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain] at Archive.org License ========= All content on Gopherpedia comes from Wikipedia, and is licensed under CC-BY-SA License URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Original Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer .