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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Twain, Mark
He is Sold down the River. At the begining, Roxy switched the babies (Tom became 'Chambers' and Chambers became 'Tom') so that her real child(Chambers) wouldn't be sold down the river when he was older. Ironically, he ended up with the very fate Roxy was worried about from day 1.
Murdered. Tom kills the Judge (his uncle) while truing to steal money from a box beside him. The Judge stirs while tom is taking the money and out of panic, Tom stabs the Judge.
Sells her Down the River. Tom tells Roxy that he will sell her to a nice owner but instead he sells her down the river for just over {$600.}
Knife. The knife was given to Luigi during their travels. The jewels in the handle are precious stones.
Pay off Gambling Debts. There are multiple occasions in the novel where tom is in debt for gambling. Evertually, he chooses to raid the whole town for objects he can sell to pay off the debts.
Italian. Everyone in Dawson's Landing is excited for Luigi and Angelo to arrive in town.
Taking Fingerprints. Wilson would fingerprint everyone that he met and write their name and the date on the bottom of each glass strip.
Dawson's Landing. Dawson's Landing, Missouri was the town in the book which was based on Mark Twain's childhood hometown on Hannibal, Missouri.
David. David Wilson got the nickname 'Pudd'nhead' when he first moved to town.
He is sold down the river.
Puddn'head Wilson. Puddn'head Wilson finds this out when he is trying to prove the twins didn't kill Judge Driscoll.
Roxy. She starts doing this after Percy Driscoll dies, and she is no longer a slave.
1830. The story tells you this right at the beginning.
Tom. Tom murders Judge Driscoll because he caught Tom trying to steal money from him.
Colonel Cecil Essex. Roxy mentions this to Chambers, or should I say Tom, when she is telling him about the switch she made between the two babies.
David Wilson. He thinks that one day something will come from this pursuit.
No . The story is set before 1865 because slavery is still going on, and it was not abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment until 1865.
| Consistently throughout the story the bad little boy is described as being unique from other bad little boys for a particular reason. What distinguishes the titular character from other young miscreants? | 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy' by Mark Twain
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Bad things did not happen to the bad little boy after he committed his wrongful exploits that typically happen to boys that engaged in those activities.. Unlike other bad little boys, this one did not fall and break his arm when he stole apples, drown or get struck by lightning when he went fishing and boating on the Sabbath, get his head knocked off by an elephant after he fed it tobacco, or shoot off three or four of his fingers when he stole his father's gun and went hunting on the Sabbath. This bad little boy had an incredible streak of luck and lived a charmed life, two things most bad little boys usually don't have.
He boated and fished on the Sabbath.. Not surprisingly, the bad little boy did not follow the rules of the Sabbath by which he was supposed to abide.
I'm down on them milksops.. A milksop was a derogatory term used to describe a man lacking courage and other qualities deemed manly. I'm of the opinion that you can follow the rules and still not be a milksop.
| Another example of the bad little boy's evil actions came when he stole a teacher's penknife and slipped it onto another boy to get him in trouble. Of course he picked 'the good little boy of the village,' George Wilson, to do this to. Where did the bad little boy place the penknife on George so that it'd fall out and he'd get in trouble? | 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy' by Mark Twain
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Into his cap. The penknife ended up falling out of George Wilson's cap after which George hung was head and blushed as if to admit guilt even though he did not steal the penknife. The bad little boy did not fess up to being the one that incriminated George and the good little boy ended up being punished by the teacher who 'brought the switch down upon his trembling shoulders.'
Apples. The bad little boy also injured the farmer's dog with a brick when the dog came after him.
He ate all of his mother's jam and then filled the empty bottle with tar. (He stole all of the food in the pantry, sold it to his friends, and then used the money to buy comic books., He emptied the honey jar into his mother's shampoo bottle and replaced the empty bottle with corn starch., He put dog food in his mother's cereal.). The bad little boy figured that 'the old woman would get up and snort' but she whipped him severely because he denied knowing anything about the tar in the jam bottle.
She was not sick.. Unlike most other bad little boys, Jim's mother was not sick or pious, she showed very little affection to her son, and she repeatedly boxed his ears when he misbehaved.
Sunday School. The story does not mention the bad little boy being involved in Boy Scouts, Sunday School, Little League Baseball, or Choir, but if he was I'm sure he would have found ways to be troublesome.
Jim. In the story Twain wrote 'if you will notice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James...It was strange, but still it is true, that this one was called Jim.'
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