The last book from my classics list for a while, back to Avgeek books now

The book is “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain. Something that i am sure most people would of red as a child or in school. I am pretty sure I had read this as a child, but i really can’t tell if I did or not. The book follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer and what is seemingly his actions as a young school boy.

I don’t know what it is about this book but it just confuses me. Sure it was written based on the american south in the late 1800s. But I can’t quite work out if it is the way it is written or I just don’t understand it but it confused the heck out of me. The text, the descriptions of certain things just felt off. But then I don’t know how life was back then. To be honest it was a bit confusing and in some cases quite boring.

The book jumps around quite a bit and it describes him “smoking and drinking” but I swear that he would be like 7 or 8 years old? If that is true, did people really let their children do that back then? So confusing!!!! Maybe I am just to modern or something but yeah, that threw me for a loop at least.

I ticked Tom Sawyer off the list, now to just read Huckleberry Finn at some stage which is the other book that goes with this one (both characters appear in both books apparently).