Great question!
At the
beginning of the story we definitely see Tom behaving almost bratty, and quite
childishly. However, throughout many experiences in the story, we certainly can see a
change in him which induces one to believe that he must have begun his transformation
toward maturity.
While at the start he was misbehaved,
towards the middle and end of his adventures we see how Tom starts changing his ways a
little bit: He starts getting interested in Becky, he becomes curious about Huck's life
of freedom, and begins to see difference between right and
wrong.
However, he still retains the basic qualities of
childhood such as his fears, his worries, his tendency for mischief, and his adventurous
nature. Taking all this into consideration, we could safely assume that Tom was in the
transition from childhood to adolescence, and that in the beginning of the story he may
have been around 10 or 11 and by the end he is about to become a teenager. The story
does not say a specific age.
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