Setting

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=The Setting of //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer//=  Time: >         >          >          >           <span style="color: rgb(0, 97, 22)"><span style="color: rgb(46, 201, 234)"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"> >                <span style="color: rgb(34, 17, 182)"><span style="color: rgb(25, 46, 230); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 5)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)">         <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 5)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 20, 148); background-color: rgb(0, 179, 255)"> Place: >     <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(209, 6, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250)"> >          <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(209, 6, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> >      <span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 189)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 203)">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(166, 114, 7)"> It takes place around the time of the Civil War (1860-1865).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(240, 82, 15)"> There is still discrimination, like against the black people.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(211, 123, 239)"> 50 cents is a lot of money, like when he won the bible.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(233, 37, 134)"> They have wacky supers        <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(233, 37, 134)">titions, like the one with the dead cat.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(18, 129, 78)"> They use alcohol as a painkiller and don't think anything of it         <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(233, 37, 134)">. <span style="color: rgb(0, 107, 11)">Aunt Polly said she was just doing it for the best for Tom.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 0, 112)"><span style="color: rgb(251, 165, 45)"> Also, Tom, Huck, and Joe just run away, and no one even goes searching for them, nowadays the entire FBI would be after them, they just assume they're dead. On page 145 when they are crying about them being supposedly dead.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 184)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 97, 22)"><span style="color: rgb(46, 201, 234)"> They use slates in school.
 * <span style="color: rgb(12, 57, 228)"><span style="color: rgb(25, 46, 230); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 121, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 0, 82)"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 5)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 203)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 189)"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 17, 182)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 189)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 203)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 184); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">TS was first published in 1876, so at first I thought the book PROBABLY took place in the 1870's, but a civil war timeline said slavery was abolished on December 6, 1865, so it must have been during sometime between about 1860-1865.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(253, 33, 33)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(4, 0, 117)"><span style="color: rgb(5, 0, 92)"><span style="color: rgb(214, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(2, 0, 56)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 0, 82)"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 5)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 112, 184); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(255, 5, 131); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">You can also tell because the children are coming and going from houses, sleeping in the woods, ETC. and the parents don't care unless they're dead.<span style="color: rgb(25, 46, 230); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(100, 22, 22)"><span style="color: rgb(21, 142, 39)"><span style="color: rgb(17, 106, 34)"><span style="color: rgb(24, 97, 10)"> Its main setting is the town of St Petersburg in Missouri.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(92, 15, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> It takes place in St. Petersburg in the Civil War times, if before or during is unclear.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(209, 6, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250)"> Some of the story takes place in the cave: "The mouth of the cave was up the hillside - an opening shaped like a letter A. Its massive oak door stood unbarred. Within was a small chamber, as chilly as an icehouse, and walled by nature with solid limestone."
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(209, 6, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 160%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">         <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(253, 255, 5); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(85, 7, 10); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 90%">Some of it takes place in the graveyard.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(253, 255, 5); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(85, 7, 10); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 90%">The Mississippi River has a "Slow moving current and is not very high"  [[image:mississippi.jpg width="459" height="312" align="right" caption="The Mighty Mississippi river"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 182)">Haunted House: "Utterly isolated, fences broken, rank weeds smothering the doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window sashes vacant, and a corner of the roof caved in."
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 182)"><span style="color: rgb(81, 2, 172)"> When they play pirates, they go to an island "Three miles below St.Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide...."