Tom Brown (character) Harry Flashman, and invites him to a cricket game as an act of friendship. Flashman describes Tom's adult form as ""...a giant of a man...like some boxer..."" Flashman made some passing references to Brown in earlier novels, referring to him as "East's odious friend" in "Flashman at the Charge" and during Flashman's recollection of his expulsion in "Flashman". Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown is a fictional character created by author Thomas Hughes in his work "Tom Brown's School Days" (1857) which is set at a real English public school — Rugby School for Boys — in the 1830s when Hughes
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and she becomes embarrassed. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness a trio of body snatchers, Dr. Robinson, Muff Potter, and Injun Joe, getting into a fight in which Robinson is murdered by Injun Joe. Tom and Huckleberry Finn swear a blood oath to not tell anyone about the murder, as they feel that if they do, Injun Joe would murder them. Bored by school, Tom, his best friend Joe Harper, and Huck run away to an island in the Mississippi called Jackson's Island. While enjoying their new-found freedom, they