careless with the teacher’s things. Injun Joe is still at large and Tom and Huck are searching for treasure. While searching near an old ghost house one night, the two boys over hear Injun Joe talking about some gold that he hid. The boys are determined to find it. As an end of the year celebration, Tom’s whole class goes on a picnic and on a cave exploration near the wood outside of town. While in the caves, Tom and Becky get lost. The whole town searches for them but they are not to be found. They then see Injun Joe snooping around. This inspires him to find a way out, which he does. After Tom and Becky are home, the caves are sealed, leaving Injun Joe and his treasure locked inside. Injun Joe dies of starvation at the gated entrance of the cave and his treasure is discovered by Tom and Huck who had found a secret way into the cave. The boys become the richest men in town. Huck decides to move in with a widow and get away from his neglected childhood. Tom and Huck are happy and rich and they promise to always stay together. Whenever Tom plays, he pretends to be a pirate or Robin Hood and his friends would be his merry men. “Just here the blast of a toy tin trumpet came faintly Tom flung off his shirt using it as a belt sticking in it a rude bow and arrow and a wooden sword. “Hold on me merry men! Keep hid till I blow.” (Page 48) Tom is also very adventurous and loves to go hunting for treasure with Huck. “There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a ragging desire to go somewhere and dig for buried treasure.” (Page 111) This feeling suddenly came upon Tom one day. Tom got Huck and they went to search for treasure by the old abandoned ghost house. Tom would often use his creative imagination to get out of punishment from his Aunt Polly. Tom could make up lies like nobody else. He was very slick. Tom would use his adventures to escape the troubles of dail...
