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A 12-year-old boy named Tom Sawyer who resides in the imaginary and fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom had 2 best friends named; Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn and had a short-lived admiration with his classmate Becky Thatcher that is apparently as he tries to fascinate her with his handsome looks, boldness, and strength. Tom’s parent is already dead that’s why his only relative left is Aunt Sally Phelps.This imaginary character's name may have been consequential from a cheerful and vivacious fireman named Tom Sawyer.
It is a warning about someone's paralanguage. Paralanguage is a component of meta-communication that may modify or nuance meaning, or convey emotion, such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously.
Instead of resisting the intent of Mr Pontelius effort she surrendered to his will