![]() ![]() I've got to rest up my great brain so it will be ready the next time something happens which you grown-ups can't solve." (3.209) When they failed, I knew it was up to me to save the day. ![]() I would have done it sooner, but I wanted to give the grown-ups every chance. ![]() "When I learned that Uncle Mark and the search party were about ready to give up the search as hopeless," he said, with about as much modesty as a plucked chicken in the window of the Deseret Meat Market, "I knew the only way to save Frank and Allan and Lady was to put my great brain to work. Check out his after-action report on the rescue in Skeleton Cave: In fact, we might say he's downright cocky about his ability to accomplish any task he sets his mind to. (1.51-52)īolstering his cleverness, as Aunt Bertha touches on here, is Tom's confidence. "He gets it from his father," Mamma said as if she was proud of Tom instead of angry with him for marching ten kids across her clean kitchen floor. "I tell you, Tena, that boy could talk his way around anything." But while he is book smart, he is also incredibly clever, able to think through any problem-or any objection to his schemes-thrown at him:Īunt Bertha shook her head. Let's start with the cleverness, because that's what drives him (and what drives his parents crazy). ![]() The Great BrainĪnyone who nicknames himself the Great Brain and constantly refers to his "great brain" (no citation here, because we do mean constantly) clearly doesn't lack confidence or cleverness. ![]()
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