Who is considered the modern day Tom Sawyer?

Answer 1

You probably don’t want to know a modern day Tom Sawyer.

The naughty boy in American children’s fiction became an archetype. Mark Twain’s Tom was not the first one, just the best. Thomas Bailey Aldrich established the pattern with The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). This semi-autobiographical novel follows the main character, named Tom Bailey, as he gets into one scrape after another in “Rivermouth” (actually Portsmouth), in New Hampshire. This book is sometimes said to be the first realistic portrayal of childhood in America.

Mark Twain followed the pattern, and achieved one-upmanship, with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, set in “St. Petersburg” (actually Hannibal), Missouri.

George Wilbur Peck, a Wisconsin newspaper editor, followed suit with weekly columns (in the 1870s and '80s) that were later published as a book, Peck’s Bad Boy. Hennery (or Henry) Peck was a mischievous lad who played sneaky pranks on others for the sheer pleasure. The author/editor Peck later became governor of Wisconsin.

So the pattern was set. American readers liked stories about “bad boys.” After all, good ole boys all had to have once been “bad boys.”

Of course, the tradition continued. For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, John Dennis Fitzgerald wrote a series about his own fictionalized family in “Adenville” (actually Price), Utah. John tells the story about his mischievous older brother, another Tom, a shrewd swindler and money-grubber. He was called the Great Brain, and the book by that title (1967) led to a series of seven books about this Tom.

So if you want to find a modern-day Tom Sawyer, grown up, just look for a good ole boy who can tell you stories of his days as the “bad boy” of the neighborhood.

We all knew Tom Sawyers. They tricked us into doing their work while they got the credit; they won the prize for memorizing Bible verses without memorizing a single one. They pretended to be pirates or Robin Hoods, and almost believed their own lies. They were lost and then found, so they became everybody’s hero—and somehow ended up with a pot of gold, without earning a single penny of it.

Good ole boys who trick you into doing their work for them; who get religion and win the hand of the cutest girl in town; who persuade you to believe their lies, and live as if they believe themselves; who always end up with a lot of money, though they never actually earn a penny of it.

If real life, we don’t much like Tom Sawyers if they are our big brothers or the guy next door or the double-talking car salesman or the liar who makes his way onto the city council.

But we keep voting for them, don’t we. After all, they come across as the kind of guy we might like to have a beer with. We might even be willing to white-wash their fence for them.

They come across on TV and in newspaper headlines better than a “good-boy” Sid or some plain ole Joe Harper, some wimpy, simpering Al Gore or John Kerry.

Who is our modern-day Peck’s Bad Boy? Oh, you know him. After all, you do his work; you pay his bills; you celebrate his victories; you laugh at his jokes. You accept his religious faith as godliness. You admire that pretty girl at his elbow. You have believed his lies. Maybe even he believes his lies. He once was lost, but then was found. He’s a good ole boy who says he was once the archetypal American bad boy. But that’s an old story. Don’t ask about his days as a frat boy and cheerleader at Princeton, about his drinking and drugs, his draft-dodging and going AWOL, his alcoholism and business failures. After all, he’s somebody you’d like to have a beer with, right? Or elect president?

Who is this modern-day Tom Sawyer?

Well, he doesn’t go barefoot; he wears cowboy boots. He doesn't white-wash fences; he runs a bush hog on his ranch.

His name ain't Tom. Folks call him Dubya.

He likes that.

America’s Bad Boy.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

the gypsy in Chocolat (played by Johnny Depp in the movie)