Tom Sawyer is a con man.  He got somebody to white-wash his aunt Polly's fence because he made it seem like it was fun and that it was a privelege to do it.  He wants to have the freedom and he wants to be popular like Huckleberry Finn.  He lies a lot. 

There is a girl that Tom Sawyer and her name is Becky. He wanted him and her to be engaged. She wanted to be engaged. But then she found out that he had a previous engagement with another girl.  Then she got mad and he got sad and ran away.

The town had a funeral because they thought he was dead but then he came back.