From mark twain tom sawyer chapter two 1876 frontispiece from the first edition of the adventures of tom sawyer 1876.
What does tom sawyer saay to relocate his lost marbles.
American writer and humorist mark twain drew upon his knowledge of antlion folklore to help establish the regional realism in his 1876 novel the adventures of tom sawyer.
Summary and analysis chapter 2 summary.
Saturday morning was come and all.
Although the trick tom uses to find his marbles fails he cannot believe that the superstition is false.
Tom is falsely accused of spilling ink on his spelling book and becky could have easily saved him but she remains silent.
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Say tom let me whitewash a little.
The two marbles lay within a foot of each other.
This superstition obviously didn t work.
Ben stopped nibbling his apple.
It did not occur to him that he had tried it several times before himself but could never find the hiding places afterward.
Antlion folklore typically takes the form of superstitious charms spoken to an antlion larva doodlebug to entice it to move.
The adventures of tom sawyer.
He had many a time heard of this thing succeeding but never of its failing before.
Just here the blast of a toy tin trumpet came faintly down the green aisles of the forest.
As tom begins the dreaded task of whitewashing he sees ben rogers approaching.
When ben teases tom about not being able to go swimming and being forced to work tom points out that it is not exactly work if he is enjoying himself and he makes a great show of applying whitewash and then stepping back to admire his own effects.
Tom sawyer whitewashing the fence.
The two incidents concerning the spilled ink on the spelling book and the torn page in the prized anatomy book make a parallel contrast to the earlier scene in which tom hurt his aunt polly.
Even though it takes three tries to find his lost marble a minute later the fact that he found it is proof to him that the tricks of superstition work.
Tom flung off his jacket and trousers turned a suspender into a belt raked away some brush behind the rotten log.
Because tom believes that if you say a certain chant and bury a marble for two weeks the rest of your lost marbles will magically join it.
Tom s whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations.
