St. Petersburg schoolhouse

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The St. Petersburg schoolhouse is the small-town classroom in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer stories where the local children, including Tom and his friends, endure lessons and get into mischief.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional building
literary location
schoolhouse
appearsInWork The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer universe
surface form: Tom Sawyer stories
associatedTheme childhood
discipline
education in 19th-century America
rebellion against authority
countryInFiction United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Mark Twain
describedAs small-town classroom
hasEventType examinations
pranks
school recitations
hasStudentCharacter Becky Thatcher
Huckleberry Finn
Joe Harper
Tom Sawyer
hasTeacherCharacter Mr. Dobbins
inspiredBy 19th-century American one-room schoolhouses
languageOfWork English
locatedInFictionalTown St. Petersburg
medium literature
narrativeFunction contrast between childhood freedom and adult authority
depicts small-town American education
stage for children’s mischief
partOfFictionalUniverse Tom Sawyer universe
settingPeriod mid-19th century
usedFor classroom instruction
community gathering place
discipline of children
education

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Tom Sawyer universe containsLocation St. Petersburg schoolhouse