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Nature In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain effectively described nature in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer very precisely. He specifically talked about one day being sunny and beautiful then the next as a gloomy hurricane type like storm that approached out of nowhere. His ability to describe nature is very clear in these two chapters of the book.

Tom had been in the woods at the camp with his two friends Joe and Huck. One morning Tom had woken up and had no clue as to where he was. When he wiped his eye he began to look around. He described the area around him as a gloomy day dawn setting. While he could hear the silence in the woods he stood up smelling the deep pervading and calming silence. A few minutes later he tried waking Joe and Huck. They decided to keep on sleeping so Tom decided to take an new journey and adventure. On the way Tom starting hearing the birds chirp and the sun rise. Tom started to see all the beautiful little creatures crawling around in the woods such as a little green worm crawling over a dewy green leaf “sniffing around” (Twain 76). Tom later then approached a lady bug that was surrounded by ants and Twain quoted “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your
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The lightning and thunder grew heavier. Temperatures in the air started to drop, as it started getting cold the boys huddled together by the vague fire which would end pretty soon as the storm approached. Tom, Joe, and Huck were soon getting drenched with the heavy rains. As the wind got heavier trees were falling and swaying over the boys heads. Twain exclaimed “ Quick boys! Go for the tent” to go into the tent for shelter (Twain 90). Tumbling over roots, vines, and tree stumps leaving the boys with bruises and scrapes all over their body. The storm had finally passed and the boys were able to return to the camp from the tent that they had stayed

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