Talk:List of Tom Sawyer characters

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Edited Rev. Sprague

I edited the following passage:

"The pastor at church that everyone hates because he never helps with any of the problems. And he has a wife so he does not follow the law of a priest."

I did so for two reasons - I do not recall any implication in the books that Reverend Sprague was hated. The second sentence is irrelevant because all indications from the book are that the reverend is protestant.

Bonbga (talk) 20:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Minor Edit

I changed Huck's age from "14 years old" to "12 or 13 years old". In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which is set the summer AFTER the events of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Huckleberry is described as being "about 13 or 14 years old", which would imply he was one year younger at the time of the events in "Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

Source: see the chapter of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" titled "The Grangerford's Take Me in", Chapter 17. Huckleberry describes the Grangerford's son Buck as:

"Buck looked about as old as me -- thirteen or four- teen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me. He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy-headed. He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one. "

Bonbga (talk) 20:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) ________________________ ok this is wierd

isn't huck's best friend Tom Sawyer?205.250.51.238 01:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC) Well, not in "Tom Sawyer." In "Huck Finn," perhaps. ___
 * In "Huck Finn" Huck's best friend is Tom. FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I want to make it clear why I've changed the character's name in this page from "Nigger Jim" to "Jim." It's nothing to do with the ongoing controversy over whether the N-word is OK or not OK. It's because Mark Twain's published writings nowhere call the character "Nigger Jim". In MT's books he is called "Jim." The phrase "Nigger Jim" is a moniker bestowed by later readers and writers. It's not without historical importance but it distorts the texts to use it in listing the characters' names. -- I didn't change the Russell Baker quote because these are his own words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.221.61 (talk) Wasn't Sidney Tom's cousin, not his brother? Aunt Polly's son? Grr, haven't got my copy on me to check. And wasn't there a girl as well? Sally, maybe? Miss w 04:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If I remember correctly, his name was Nigger Jim, and the book was widely censored to make it just "Jim". I won't revert it until I have a straight answer, but if that's the case, then Nigger Jim it will remain.
 * In Huck Finn he is only ever called "Jim" By the way, please sign your comments.  Thanks. FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to the text of the book in the Gutenberg Project. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Search it and you will see that he is referred to as "Jim" throughout.  The N-word is used sometimes as an adjective, but not as part of his name like "Injun Joe".
 * It was MARY 74.237.29.31 01:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sidney was his brother; Sally was his other aunt, who he and Huck stay with at the end of "Huck Finn" FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Character Order
These charaters seem a, uh.. bit out of order to me; is there a reason why? FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 04:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Since nobody replied, I've reordered he characters by what made sense to me. If anyone disagrees, feel free to revert/reorder them again. (Please give an explanation.) FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge
The result was merge into List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series. -- Wassupwestcoast 13:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Propose to merge contents of Tom Sawyer into the sub-heading of Thomas Sawyer of this article. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 00:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No comments in 7 days. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 13:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Annoying
What's really annoying is that Wikipedia has an article on Meatwad, but not Tom Sawyer, who is probably one of the most famous fictional characters in any medium. But, hey what do I know? I'm just a nameless string of numbers and dots.

64.163.222.115 05:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, Meatwad doesn't get his own article. If you look, it redirects you to the "Characters" section of the ATHF article. Tom Sawyer gets a whole seperate article just for the characters in the book, ATHF doesn't have enough characters or is important enough to seperate the characters into their own article.24.254.163.150 (talk) 12:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for comment on articles for individual television episodes and characters
A request for comments has been started that could affect the inclusion or exclusion of episode and character, as well as other fiction articles. Please visit the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(fiction). Ikip (talk) 11:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Reference to articles on individual characters
This page should have "see main article" at the beginning of paragraphs on characters with their own page ie Jim (Huckleberry Finn) and Tom Sawyer; particularly with the latter not to be merged into this page (?) Hugo999 (talk) 11:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I added the links. Bookmaven3003 (talk) 04:30, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Russell Baker's commentary on Jim
The current article on the character Jim is totally inadequate. He is one of the central characters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but the discussion about his is limited to an out-of-context quote from a critic named Russell Baker.

What Baker said has been altered by one of the re-edits of this article. In the quote, Baker actually used the "N" word to describe Jim. Currently, the quote uses the phrase "Slave Jim" which is not an accurate quote.

However, it should also be pointed out that the phrase "N ___ Jim" never occurs in Huckleberry Finn, contrary to Baker's statement. Bonbga (talk) 21:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC) I added a parenthetical note mainly as it appears in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn article. Bookmaven3003 (talk) 03:49, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
I have reverted a lot of unnoticed vandalism here, but I don't know for sure if I got it all. Could somebody please check? :) Thanks. Tiagoroth (talk) 05:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Tiagoroth

Weird bugged link
The link from the page "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_Abroad" redirects to the vandalised version of this article, containing the notion of Mr Walters eating pupils' genitals etc. I don't why and how to repair it. Can anyone do something about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.65.62.235 (talk) 01:59, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Tom's best friend
Right now, this article 'sez', "Huck is Tom's best friend.", but then also "Joseph 'Joe' Harper is Tom's best friend.". Which one is, really? Acwilson9 (talk) 21:47, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I fixed this myself, by changing both occurences to "one of Tom's best friends". Acwilson9 (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Hbv 105.154.215.159 (talk) 14:30, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Article Title
Why is the article titled "List of Tom Sawyer characters" when is includes characters from both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? I find the inclusion of Jim, Pap Finn, the King, and the Duke kind of confusing, since they aren't Tom Sawyer characters at all. Carlo (talk) 21:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)