How Tells Us “tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain About Motivation?

How tells us “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain about motivation?

The given excerpt is a part from the book “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” written by Mark Twain. This part of story shows Tom how he has to work for his aunt and the rest of the boys of his class and his age are off and can rest for the whole day. He knows that the rest of the guys will make a lot of fun because he has to work. He wanted to give the other boys money for doing his work, but he knows that they wouldn’t do it. So he had a new idea. He wanted to act like he wouldn’t prefer to do anything else then to pain the fence. He is working like he would have the best time of his life. Also he tells everybody that nobody else could do this job better then himself. The first boy of his class which arrives at his work place was Ben. He really makes fun of him, because he can’t rest. Tom explains him that he didn’t wanted to have a day off, he preferred to do this work. Also it makes him happy that his Aunt Polly thinks that he is the only boy or person which can pain the fence in the right way. In the end he makes the work unreachable and very attractive for the other boys. Then the boys wanted to do the work because they wanted to see if it really makes fun and if they can do the work in the same good way like Tom.

This text shows a good example of motivation. Motivation is

The behavior of the boys and Tom describes this acting and can be explained by the hierarchy by needs from Abraham Maslow.

The first needs which are the basics of the boys are satisfied, because they have free and no work left. Just Tom has to do something but he is creating a feeling that he has to working because it’s very special for him and that makes him happy and is necessary. The other boys want to feel special too and want to show that they can do the work as good as Tom.