When Tom Sawyer is stirring up an elaborate plan to free Jim, most of his methods are absurd, and unnecessary. He asks Jim if there are any animals in his prison room finishing hiding the grindstone in Jim’s room. He speaks of …show more content…
He says that taming an animal is “easy enough,” because “every animal is grateful” and that information would be in “any book” (261). To Tom, taming an animal is common knowledge to an average person. But on the other hand, ordinarily taming an animal is complex task that takes a great amount of time and patience. Tom is simplifying something that is more involved than it might appear to be at the surface: training an animal that cannot communicate effectively with a person. Tom makes it seem like people should have the expectation that animals should already be tamed to an extent in the wild that when they interact with humans for the first time it would be “easy enough” to tame