# Mr. Dobbins — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer character guide

> Mr. Dobbins in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** old Dobbins, Old Dobbins

**First appearance:** 0007-vi-tom-meets-becky

## Who they are

Strict schoolmaster who is often the butt of pranks.

## In the story

### [Tom Takes Becky’s Punishment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tom_sawyer_se/chapters/xx-tom-takes-becky-s-punishment)

The schoolmaster who discovers the torn book and interrogates the students, ultimately flogging Tom.

### [Eloquence—and the Master’s Guilded Dome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tom_sawyer_se/chapters/xxi-eloquence-and-the-master-s-guilded-dome)

The schoolmaster, severe and exacting, becomes increasingly tyrannical as Examination Day approaches; his bald head is gilded by the signpainter's boy as part of the boys' revenge.

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