Hypocrisy of the Society in Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

Abstract

The main purpose of conducting this research was to give its readers a clear overview of the society, racism, religion, adventures, and most of all the hypocrisy of people at the time of Mark Twain (1835-1910). My focus was on how people treated each other as well as how they treated Tom, who is the main character of the novel, and how other children of the city were treated based on the role they had in the society they lived in. Considering the fact that these topics are very much alive even nowadays in our society, I hope this research paper will help people realize that many of these things are bad for societies and we should change for better in order to make the world a better place to live in. I did the research on this topic by first reading the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” written by Mark Twain and by exploring resources from other related books and many trusted ejournals that gave me a better understanding of the novel, so its reader can have a clearer overview through a thorough analysis of the novel.