please answer this... i need help! you will get ten points if you give me a detailed one?

Question

In the book of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, what is it talking about when they talk about a party and a cave that looks like a maze(chapter 29)?

Answer 1

Back in Chapter 18, Becky Thatcher announced that her mother was going to let her have a picnic and she told her schoolmates that she would be able to invite anyone she wanted.

In Chapter 29, the long-awaited picnic took place. (This is the party.) Mrs. Thatcher, Becky's mother, told Becky that, since she was going to be getting home late from the picnic, she should stay with a friend for the night, someone who lived near the ferry-landing where the children would be dropped off after the picnic. Becky told her mother that she would stay with Suzy Harper. Tom convinced Becky that the two of them should stay at the Widow Douglas' instead because the Widow Douglas would have ice cream and they would have loads of fun. Becky agreed.

On the day of the picnic, the children (including Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher) boarded a ferryboat that tied up three miles below town. The children played until they were sweaty and hungry, and then they feasted on the picnic meal. After eating, they rested in the shade until someone suggested that they explore McDougal's cave. The group of children was excited to explore the cave and they entered the cave through a large, unbarred, wooden door.

The cave was impressive, but after getting over their initial awe of the cave, the children began to play, blowing out each others' candles. Finally, the children proceeded down into the cave which was like a labyrinth with passages twisting back and forth. The cave was so complicated that nobody "knew" the entire cave, although Tom Sawyer knew the cave as well as anybody else. Even those who knew the cave didn't venture much farther than the parts they knew well.

The children explored the "known" part of the cave, slipping into side passages, and surprising each other when different passageways joined again. Eventually, the children began to find their way back to the cave entrance, covered with tallow drippings (candle drippings) and clay. The children boarded the ferry and returned back to the ferry-landing.

This is as much as Chapter 29 tells us about the picnic and the cave, but in Chapter 30, we learn that Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher were missing. Becky's mother thought Becky was staying with Suzy Harper after the picnic and Tom's Aunt Polly thought Tom was staying with the Thatchers. Unfortunately, nobody knew where Tom and Becky were.

In Chapter 31, we learn that Tom and Becky had become lost in the cave. What's worse, Tom saw that Injun Joe was in the cave with them!

Answer 2

They had an outing and Huck and Tom got lost in the cave, where they saw, Indian Joe, killer of Mr Potter, the town drunk, in the graveyard. There was a search party, sent to find Huck and Tom, but they found another way out The Indian and Potter went to rob graves, Tom and Huck were on one of their silly adventure, best I can recall it involved a dead cat. When they heard voices and saw the Indian kill Potter

Answer 3

Maybe the boat coming made them think of a party and lights etc...
im not entirely sure what it is you're asking, but here is a summary of that part of the story, maybe it will help..

The children plan to go downriver to a famous cavern, and Becky’s mother tells Becky to spend the night with one of her friends who lives near the ferry. Tom then persuades Becky to disobey her mother and go with him to the Widow Douglas’s house instead, where the kind woman will probably give them ice cream and let them spend the night.
As they take the ferry down the river, Tom worries briefly that Injun Joe may go out that night, and he may miss the action. But the promise of fun with Becky soon drives such worries from his mind. The children arrive at a “woody hollow,” play in the forest, and eat lunch. Afterward, they climb up to McDougal’s cave and spend the afternoon excitedly exploring the passages. They stagger out that evening happily covered in clay and board the ferry for home.
Huck sees the ferry arrive in town, and a short time later he sees two men pass him carrying a box. Assuming them to be Injun Joe and his companion, he decides that there is no time to fetch Tom—the two men are escaping with the gold. He follows them to the Widow Douglas’s house, where Injun Joe describes to his friend how he plans to slit the widow’s nostrils and notch her ears like a sow as revenge for an incident in which her husband, then justice of the peace, had him horsewhipped for vagrancy.
While the two villains wait for the widow’s light to go out, Huck races down the hill to the house of an old Welshman and his sons. They let him in, and when he tells them what is about to happen, they seize their guns and rush toward the widow’s house. Huck follows them for a time, hears a burst of gunfire, and then flees for his life.

Answer 4

Read the book, you'll feel better about yourself instead of asking someone else, I guess i do not get 10 points hummm ;) .. read chapter 29 again or better yet go back and start again.. Good luck from Someone who had to read that book theirselves ;)

Answer 5

that's where tom and the girl he likes goes into that cave and finds engine Joe in the cave

Answer 6

i remember in the movie tom and huck go into a cave...only to be confronted by injun joe..

Answer 7

Gimme twenty points and you've got yourself a deal

Answer 8

Did Fade_Out get the ten points?

Answer 9

Its what you want it to mean, not what they want it to mean...