who is becky thatcher in the adventures of tom sawyer
List of Tom Sawyer characters Becky is Judge Thatcher's daughter, known for her love interest with Tom Sawyer. Her long blonde hair is always worn in braids. She wins Tom's love from the first moment he sees her. When she first encounters Tom, she gives him a purple pansy to show her love. She soon becomes "engaged" to him by swearing to love only him and sealing their engagement with a kiss. When he mentions that he used to be with Amy Lawrence, Becky believes he still loves Amy and gets angry at him. He wins her back by telling a lie and takes the whipping for the breaking of their teacher's anatomy book, which she accidentally ripped. In Huckleberry Finn she is also referred to as "Bessie".[3] The character Becky was based on Laura Hawkins, an actual friend of Samuel Clemens.[4]