Tom's Love Life

Tom wasn’t expecting anything special to happen on this fine day. He was just going to school like a normal 12 year old boy. Something was going to happen to him whether it good or bad something big was going to happen he just didn’t know it yet.

The first time that Tom and Becky ever met, is when Tom is late to school because he traded his tooth for a tick. Because of this choice he made he was going to be in trouble with the teacher. It all started when Aunt Polly pulled out Tom’s tooth.

He started off the day just going to school. He talked to Huck on his way there and traded it for a tick. He arrived at school late, and told the teacher exactly what happened so that he would have to sit by all the girls. He had no problem with at all seeing as he set it up so that he could sit by all of the girls. While sitting there he met Becky Thatcher, a little blond girl.

Tom was playing with the tick almost the whole rest of the class with Joe Harper. They harassed the tick by trying to keep the bug on the side of the desk with a pin. The teacher saw what was occurring half way through their game and came over hit both boys on the back of their heads smirked and walked away.

After getting yelled at and getting in trouble he decided to stay by Becky. They ate lunch together and he convinced her to be engaged to him. She said yes, they said “I love you” to each other and they kissed. As they were talking it came out on accident that he was previously engaged to Amy Lawrence. Becky begins to cry thinking that he probably still loves her and tells him that she thought of that whole situation that way. Tom completely denied it and offers a jewel to her to show that his love id=s devoted to her, but she starts to ball harder not accepting that he is sincere. Tom then walks out on her which makes her even more upset than she was before.

Later Becky that week becomes ill. She stops attending school because of her being ill and Tom became even more upset now than he was before because Dr. Robinson had just passed so he needed her to be at school terribly, so much that Aunt Polly is worried about him and she thinks that he is ill also. Aunt Polly tried to help fix him but it wasn’t help at all because she was giving him pain killer and he hated it so much that he fed it to the cat, which got very hyper. Aunt Polly found about what he did but was not mad because although what he did to the cat was cruel so was what she was trying to make him do so he went to school with no punishment. That morning is the morning that Becky came back but she did not even acknowledge that Tom was there because she was still upset. Tom was not happy now that Becky wouldn’t pay attention to him so he decided to go to an island that was deserted and he rode out there on a float with Joe.

Everyone thought that Tom had died and they had a funeral. When he arrived at school he ignored Becky and just paid attention to Amy instead of paying attention to her. She becomes very jealous of them and starts to hand out invitations to her classmates to come to a picnic and she invited everyone but Tom and Amy. After she had invited everyone to her picnic, Tom and Amy left leaving Becky raging with jealousy.

Instead of waiting on Tom, Becky moves on and she starts to hang out with Alfred a new kid that Tom does not get along with and he becomes bored of Amy and is now jealous of her and Alfred. Tom left for lunch at home and walked by himself. Once he was gone Becky left Alfred because she was bored of him. She knew that he was planning to pour ink all over it and she didn’t know whether to let it go and see his reaction because he deserves it or to say something and mend their problems to one so that they would be together. In the end she decided that she would just let him pour the ink on Tom’s spelling book and hate Tom forever.

Becky and Tom meet at school and he tries to make up with her so that they weren’t fighting but she ignored him and waited for the ink to be spilt all over his spelling book. Becky then goes into the teacher’s desk and pulls out an autobiography and Tom startled her and makes her rip the page blaming it on him. She cries knowing that she will be whipped now for what she has done. The teacher walked up and down the isles waiting for someone to admit that they had done the crime and when she gets to Becky and Tom stood up and Tom helped her in saying that it was his entire fault and he got his second whipping of the day but he was a hero to Becky again. After that came summer and Tom and Becky went their separate ways and did their own thing.

Even though Tom and Becky went through a lot they will always be friends. Whether they ever become more than that again no one knows, but what we do know is that they will always be close and that they did like or love each other at one point. We all have crushes and Tom’s was Becky the same for Becky and what I got out of this was you can like someone get engaged to them, not really though, and still be friends in the end like Tom and Becky.

Where It Takes Place

The story starts in a old house with no heat and an elderly man lives there. He is alone and very cold either because he is old and doesn't stay worm long or it really is the reason that there is. He sits in his chair and he reads this notebook he found. In the notebook he reads all about a love story that is around the time of the World War II. In the notebook they talk about the places they go and the elderly man gets caught up in it.