Tom Sawyer at the beginning of the story was a person who wanted to trick everybody into thinking he did the right thing. Like in one part of the story, in the beginning actually, Tom wanted to go swimming but he didn't want his Aunt Polly to know that he went swimming. So he took off his shirt but the collar broke, so he sewed it back up with a different color thread. When he got home Aunt Polly thought he didn't go swimming, but his half-brother Sid pointed out that Aunt Polly used white thread not black when she sewed it. That meant that Tom Sawyer used black thread, not white.

One day Tom was white-washing a fence. Some person that he knew named Ben came along and saw him white-washing the fence while he was eating an apple. He ended up white-washing the fence because Tom tricked him into thinking it was fun and not boring. So Tom got the apple while Ben did the work.

A girl named Becky is a girl that Tom likes. First he tried getting her attention by showing off and getting in trouble in school. Then he wrote "I LOVE YOU" and showed Becky and whispered "I LOVE YOU TOO".  Then he said they should engaged, but then she got mad because Tom mentioned the last girl he got engaged with, Amy.  He tried giving her a flower but she wouldn't accept it and then she ran home crying.