An orphan, “Tom Sawyer” lives with his “Aunt Polly” and half-brother, “Sid”, in St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. The early chapters highlight the propensity of “Tom” for trouble.
First, he angers his aunt by eating jam, then he gets in a fight with another boy. As punishment for his various misdeeds, “Aunt Polly” orders him to whitewash the fence. However, Tom manages to convince other children that whitewashing is fun, and they end up giving him various items for a turn at the fence. Later in the book “Tom” goes to the cemetery with “Huckleberry Finn”, a vagabond whose father is a heavy drinker. The duo come across three grave robbers, including “Injun Joe” and “Dr. Robinson”. The two men get into a fight,
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