The main life lesson we can learn from 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer "is that honesty is rewarding and that it can promote very good things both personally, socially and politically. Tom takes time to understand this, but once he realizes that truth , he gets rid of a big burden in his life, that is, he has a great green feeling of freedom. In relation to honesty, we can consider that young people today have difficulties in relating to this, because they live in the world where the dishonesty is encouraged, if it benefits themselves, in addition, young people must face the lack of honesty of humans in politics, in family relationships, in communities, among others.
I’m pretty sure it is a simile because it says and almost break -like- and a simile is like or as being used to relate to something. Hope you have a good rest of your day !!