The Devil and Tom Walker

The story Devil and Tom Walker is a story that has a lot of important ideas that stands out to you. I can infer from the direct message from the author that Tom's wife was greedy and selfish and anything she laid her hands on she would hide away. The author states that his wife was also tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm. From the authors description you can infer that she doesn't play any games and that she takes things serious always. I don't think Tom knew what he was getting his self into when he met his wife.

So one day Tom had been distant part of the neighborhood, he took what he considered a short cut homewards through the swamp. I can infer that Mr. Tom is going for a walk and is taking a different direction that he normally takes. This swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks. I can infer from this description is that the swamp was abandoned and grass was never cut. Some of the trees were ninety feet high, which made it dark in the day time. If this swamp was in my neighborhood it would never get used because of the elderly.  The swamp that Tom was going through was also muddy and filled with stagnant pool size puddles, off of this I can infer that the swamp was very nasty looking and was never hardly used.

Tom kept on picking his way through the treacherous forest, walking and stepping over puddles and leaping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots until he reached a piece of hard ground. I can infer that Tom was glad to be able to walk on hard ground so he wouldn’t have to worry about the next step. Toms path through the forest had led him to this old fort that made him pause for a minute to rest himself. I can infer that Tom has no clue who or what is in this fort, but the story stated that Tom Walker was not a man of trouble with any fears of the kind. I can infer that he was a brave man who knew what he was capable of doing.

Tom reposed himself for some time on the trunk of a fallen hemlock. I can infer that a hemlock is a tree because of it being fallen already. As Tom came to a stop he had took another breath and realized that he was face to face with a great black man seated directly opposite him on a stump of a tree. Tom was exceedingly surprised; having neither seen no heard any one approach. I can infer from Toms reaction that he was shocked of how the black man popped up so quietly. The black man was dressed in a rude, half Indian grab, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body. From this description I can infer that the man was dressed very poorly and didn’t have any clothes. The man also had a course of black hair that stood out from his head in all directions. I can infer that his hair wasn’t being took care of.

The black man happened to be the devil and he wanted for Tom to do him favor that would change his life and Tom wanted to ask his wife before he done so and she thought he should and he didn't. I can infer that she doesn't care about Tom at all. 

Mrs Ellison this was my poor job. Ill do better next time.