HOW GOOD IS TO BE A CHILD
In
the story of Tom Sawyer, children are presented as a true interepretation of what they really are. Children are described with the same typical behaviors that a child could have some years ago when smart phones were not yet part of our lives , and staying with friends to live new experiences was the only thing available to do. Throughout this story, children are described as
adventurous, sociable, brave, carefree, careless, enthusiastic, energetic, mischievous,
intelligent, but indisputably happy; all those features that are part of a healthful childhood that most of people used to live. It makes me remember a small part of my
childhood.
When
I was like 8 years old, I remember I had the typical kind of friends that children,
borned in the latest years of the 1900s, could have. One day, I was outside of my house playing with my friends. Due to the street was being repaired,
there were several tubes made of cement wide enough to have inside a child of that age and to allow him/her sit down inside it for being pushed by the others. The first person to enter
was the biggest girl between us, she was higher and fatter than us. All of
us started to push the tube in order to make it crash with the others and push it back
again.
When my turn arrived, I entered to the
tube, I sat down on it, so I could see the big holes that were in each side of myself. Immediately, when my
friends started pulling the tube, this one crashed into the others so strongly that it broke
into two pieces and one of them fell down perfectly over my back. The weight
of the tube was all over me in such a way that my face was touching my knees
and I could not breath. Then, my friends take the big peace from me and, with the
little energy I had and without saying a word, I stood up and went to my house. I am sure I was
not so afraid for the hit, but for the reprimand I could receive from my
mother. However, everything was good and I survived without problem.
This
kind of stories maybe are not told anymore, our generation of children
live in a society pretty different that if a book were created to tell their stories, they would change in several aspects. Nevertheless, the book The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer brings to the present the model of childhood that took place some generations
before and that brought joy to the ones who lived it.
