Question

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE MINISTER IN THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. ???????????/

Answer 1

@Hero @amistre64 can you help?

Answer 2

@Hussein36021 can you

Answer 3

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod—and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving. Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. However, this time he was really interested for a little while. The minister made a grand and moving picture of the assembling together of the world's hosts at the millennium when the lion and the lamb should lie down together and a little child should lead them. But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.

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There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down. The boy whose history this book relates did not enjoy the prayer, he only endured it—if he even did that much. He was restive all through it; he kept tally of the details of the prayer, unconsciously—for he was not listening, but he knew the ground of old, and the clergyman's regular route over it—and when a little trifle of new matter was interlarded, his ear detected it and his whole nature resented it; he considered additions unfair, and scoundrelly.

Answer 4

@elementwielder @Ginabydesign @helpme1.2 someonee
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Answer 5

im sorry i havent read enough of the book to state an answer... but thanks for the excerpt... maybe someone with more knowledge of the book can help

Answer 6

Please post in the English Lit