Tom Sawyer’s treasure

 Write an essay tracing in detail the improbable events that lead to Tom Sawyer’s finding the treasure. Pay particular attention to the wonderful coincidences and lucky breaks that produce this triumphant conclusion. How does Mark Twain sell these fantastic twists of plot? Why does the reader go along with them? https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/section8/ Writing instructions: When you write, keep the stories themselves in the foreground of your thinking. Your analysis should be deeply involved with the assigned material; resist the temptation to let your mind drift off into purely subjective and abstract thoughts about good, bad, youth, age, work, play, and so on. Our first responsibility in this course is to examine what our particular story-tellers say about such things, not what you or I may believe in our own philosophies. Make your essay have a point, a clearly stated central thesis, a focus to which everything you say in the paper contributes. The old formula applies here: make clear from the outset what you consider your main point to be, provide the evidence from the story that leads you to your conclusion, and explain your reasoning. If you conscientiously do that, your essays can hardly fail to be satisfying, both to you and to me.