believe that whitewashing is fun, and they end up giving him various items for a turn at the fence. All the events that take place in the novel are connected with one character and are impossible without Tom Sawyer. Tom is a person who can overcome any problem, and nothing is impossible for him. He looks at the difficulties as a challenge and immediately tries to solve them. He is full of a great optimism in spite of everything bad that has happened to him. In November 1875, Twain gave the manuscript to the American Publishing Company and the company sent it to True Williams for the illustrations. A little later, the book was published at Chatto and Windus of London, in June 1876, but without illustrations. Pirate editions appeared very quickly in Canada and Germany. The American Publishing Company finally published its edition in December 1876, which was the first illustrated edition of Tom Sawyer.