He collects enough tickets to earn a prized Bible from the teacher, despite being one of the worst students in the class and knowing almost nothing of Scripture, eliciting envy from the students and a mixture of pride and shock from the adults. Later, Tom trades the trinkets with students in his Sunday school class for tickets, given out for memorizing verses of Scripture. Tom cleverly persuades several neighborhood children to trade him small trinkets and treasures for the "privilege" of doing his tedious work, using reverse psychology to convince them of its enjoyable nature.
When Aunt Polly catches him sneaking home late on a Friday evening and discovers that he has been in a fight, she makes him whitewash her fence the next day as punishment.
A fun-loving boy, he frequently skips school to play or go swimming. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime in the 1840s. Tom Sawyer is an orphan who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Illustration from the 1876 edition by artist True Williams.
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