摘要：Reading a novel is an interesting activity for people to be relaxed. Besidesbringing knowledge, increases your adventure soul, it also brings experience tothe readers. The story of a novel is often about happiness, sadness, horror,detective and adventure, etc. Some novels are taken from true stories and theothers just a fiction. Tom Sawyer Abroad is the one of the example of the fictionnovel. This is what the writer offers to research about. It is a short novel writtenby Mark Twain in 1894. This story tells about heroism of Tom Sawyer that hasrelationship with the David Williamson theories. The aim of study is MarkTwain in the Tom Sawyer Abroad has successful illustrate heroism in the TomSawyer Abroad. Mark Twain began illustrates Tom Sawyer as a centralcharacter. She uses psychological approach to find the heroism of Tom Sawyer.She does some steps for collecting the data. First, reading the novel TomSawyer Abroad, collecting data from the books, internet, and dictionarieshaving connection with the subject about heroism, classifying the data accordingthe psychological theory, analyzing data, and the last is giving a conclusionabout the findings. The result of study show that Tom Sawyer in the TomSawyer Abroad have indication as a heroic boy, like spirit, love, strength,imagination and wisdom.
