About Joe Harper

Joe Harper had been Tom Sayer's best friend for a long time. He and Tom like to pretend they are in Robin Hood, and even go on a pirate adventure with Huckleberry Finn.
When Joe decides to go with Tom and Huckleberry to escape the village and become pirates his external motivation was that his mother had whipped him and he thought this was unfair. His internal motivation was that he wanted people to feel sad for him and regret being mean to him, especially people like his mother.

Abut Injun Joe

Injun Joe is what everyone calls a "half-breed". He is half Native American and half American. He obviously wouldn't fit in anywhere because when he is with Americans, people think he is strange, and then when he goes to his tribe he wouldn't be able to completely blend in either. I think this is part of his motivation for being so harsh and unforgiving to others. No one ever fully accepts him because he is so different and foreign.
When Injun Joe goes with Muff Potter and the doctor to dig out the grave and steal the body I think his internal motivation was that he wanted money and revenge on the doctor. His external motivation was why he wanted revenge. When Injun Joe kills the doctor and tells Muff Potter that Muff was the one who did it, his internal motivation was that he knew he would be in trouble if people found out it was he who killed the doctor, and when he blames it on Muff Potter his external motivation was that Muff was drunk, and had been hit in the head so it was easy to convince Muff Potter that he was the murderer of the doctor. His external motivation for killing the doctor was how the doctor was rude to him when they were children by not giving him enough food and saying that he wasn't good enough for it.

About Becky Thatcher

Becky Thatcher has blonde hair that is pulled into two braids. When she first meets Tom she shows Tom her drawing skills and they agree to meet so she can teach him. But when they meet Tom persuades her to get engaged to him. I think that one of her external motivations was that Tom kept on telling her how nice being engaged was. Her internal motivation for agreeing was that she believed him and wanted to feel the way Tom said she would. When Becky starts crying afterwards her external motivation was that Tom had accidentally told her that he and Amy Lawrence, his old girlfriend, had been engaged too, right after they both already swore not to ever love anybody else or marry anybody else but each other. Her internal motivation was that she now knew that Tom would probably do the same thing that he did to Amy Lawrence to her, but she had just sworn not to love anyone else but him, and she saw the pickle she was in. Also when Tom tried to give her his most prized possesion and she threw it on the ground.
When Becky doesn't show up at school for a while I think that she was trying to make Tom upset on purpose. For example, when she does come to school, and all of a sudden it's obvious Tom is clearly trying to impress her again she sticks her nose in the air and talks about how people are always showing off and stuff. And this really hurts Tom. I think Becky's internal motivation was that she was trying to get back at Tom and make him feel bad. Her external motivation was what Tom had done and made her do.

About Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry likes to go around and do as he pleases. He's the envy of all the town boys because he doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to. I think this is part of his external and internal motivations. He probably likes the attention. Also, when he and Tom are hiding in the barn and they think the stray dog is howling at them they were begging for a second chance, saying that they knew they would probably go to Hell. Huckleberry's external motivation for saying this was that he had done many bad things in his life and his internal motivation was that he didn't want to die so early and he wanted a second chance.
When Huckleberry agrees to leave the village to become pirates with Tom and Joe his external motivation was that there wasn't much he would miss, and his internal motivation was that he didn't care whatsoever about going anywhere.

About Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer is a very curious and adventurous boy, who is lazy most of the time and tries to get by with as little work as possible. When he is actually doing work though, like memorizing Robin Hood, his internal motivations are that he enjoys it and that it entertains him. An external motivation is that he has a friend, Joe Harper, to memorize it with him so they can recite the lines together and pretend they are in the book. He would rather do this than memorize bible verses.
When Tom is whitewashing the fence with Ben Rogers watching and taunting him, Tom decides to act as if his job is really fun. His external motivation was that he could get Ben Rogers, and many others, to whitewash for him, and trade treasures for it, by pretending it was an art. His internal motivation was that he wanted to get off work and into the shade while everyone would do his work for him.
When he won the Dorian bible by trading tickets for some treasures he had accumulated the day before Sunday school it probably wasn't for the actual bible, but for the attention from his peers, teachers, and most of all, from the visiting judge. Also, internally he would know he was clever and feel good about himself.
When Tom and Huckleberry Finn went to the graveyard with the superstition that they could get their warts to go away, Tom's external motivation was his warts. His internal motivation was to make Huckleberry Finn like him better and think Tom was cool by showing him that he was not scared of going to the graveyard with the dead cat in the middle of the night.
When Tom Sawyer decides to escape his village and run away to become a pirate, his external motivation was Becky and how she had treated him, first giving back the brass ball he had tried to give to her, then being mean to him and making him feel bad. His internal motivation was that he wanted to make everyone feel sorry for him and regret everything they ever did to hurt him.