Currently I am reading the classical book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. I'm only on page 15, but I'm interested already. So far the main character has been introduced. He is a young boy named Tom Sawyer, and he lives with his Aunt Polly because his mother is dead. Tom is quite the sly rascal and seems to always be able to trick and talk his way out of doing any work. This book seems good to me because of the way it was written. Tom says such comical things and comes up with the best of ideas to avoid work or anything he doesn't like. I'm not sure yet what the theme or the author's purpose for writing this book is. I haven't gotten far enough into the story to see any growth or changes in character to say who the best character is either, but hopefully I will as the book continues. An important quote I found in my book is "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it--namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain." We use this concept today in things like the stock market and supply and demand. Advertisers even use the idea that when there is less of something more people are likely to buy it. These are deeper concepts so it was surprising to me to see a young boy discover them. I'm curious to see if this idea will be carried throughout the book. I had a question about Tom's brother Sid. I didn't quite understand how they were related since Tom's mother had died. Another question I had was the setting of the book. It said that Tom was a poor boy, but I was still wondering where he lives and what his house is like?