Huckleberry Finn Book Vs Movie Essay

In the novel written by Mark Twain and released in 1885, he tells the story of a two characters named Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Huck is a white boy raised in a racist society and Jim is a slave in the area where Huck Lives. Huck has a father named Pap who disrespects Huck and treats him horribly. He runs away and meets Jim who has tried to escape slavery. They adventure down the mississippi river in hopes of freeing Jim, and encounter many different events and people along the way. While Jim is a grown man and Huck is just a boy, Jim still respects Huck because of the segregated way of thinking that the two have been raised with. Disney created a movie adaptation of the same story, however, they changed certain sections. While at times the changes may seem coincidental, they were all made for a reason. Disney focuses on different areas of the story and doesn’t hold all of the same meanings as Mark Twain intended with his original novel. Mark Twain wrote the original story with the desire of criticizing American society. He included the character Tom Sawyer to help with this, while Disney chose to leave the character out. Disney’s film variation of The Adventures of Huck Finn focuses more on the

Mark Twain had intentions of criticizing American society with the idea of Huck being racist and disrespectful towards Jim just because he is black. The movie took away from this criticism by having Huck sympathize a little more with Jim. There are points in the movie where Huck is more friendly to Jim than he was in the novel, such as when they have an argument about French. Huck uses logic that he comes up with, and Jim uses the same logic to outsmart Huck. After the argument, Jim says “I rest my case,” to which Huck replies “You know... you've