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Tom Sawyer Vs Arnie

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Tom Sawyer, the main character of Mark Twain’s classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is compared to Arnie, a character from the short story,
“Born Worker”. These two, rambunctious boys are very similar in their nature and way of thinking. They are both very smart, and they do not want to do all the hard work, so they scam and deceive people in cunning ways. First, Tom Sawyer is very cunning and knows how to act to make someone do the work for him. For example, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, on Chapter two, pages four through 5, Tom says, “‘Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?’” The story continues with, “That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his

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