The voices of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

9 voices in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Every one is a separate voice, cast to the character as written.

  • Narrator (narrator) — Twain's warmly detached third-person narrator — playful, ironic, deeply fond of children, and gently satirical of adult respectability in small-town Missouri.
  • Tom Sawyer (protagonist) — A mischievous, imaginative, and irrepressibly dramatic twelve-year-old boy in St. Petersburg, Missouri. A schemer and dreamer who talks his way in and out of everything.
  • Huckleberry Finn (supporting) — The son of the town drunk — pariah, hero, and Tom's closest friend. Lives outside society's rules and is envied for it by all the boys. Superstitious, loyal, and honest.
  • Aunt Polly (supporting) — Tom's loving, exasperated guardian — a soft-hearted Missouri woman who can't quite bring herself to punish Tom as firmly as he deserves.
  • Injun Joe (antagonist) — The murderous half-breed villain who kills Dr. Robinson at the graveyard and frames Muff Potter. Cold, menacing, implacably vengeful, terrifying to Tom.
  • Becky Thatcher (supporting) — The Judge's daughter — Tom's love interest. Pretty, proper, forgiving. Gets lost with Tom in McDougal's Cave.
  • Joe Harper (supporting) — Tom's companion on the pirate island adventure — his 'bosom friend and sworn enemy.'
  • Sid (minor) — Tom's goody-goody half-brother who tattles and behaves perfectly. The comic foil to Tom's chaos.
  • Muff Potter (supporting) — The gentle, drunken gravedigger framed for Injun Joe's murder. Kind, pathetically grateful for Tom and Huck's small kindnesses.

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