Huckleberry Finn: Comparing The Book And Movie

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Huck and Jim are both runaways. Huck runs away from his dad, and Jim is a runaway from Miss Watsons plantation. Huck and Jim decide to stay on a isolated island that nobodytravels to. Jim and Huck don’t plan to meet there, they just run into eachother. Jim trusts Huck to keep it a secert that he is hiding as a runaway slave. One of the major differences of the book, and movie, is Tom Sawyer’s role while going down the Mississippi River. At the end of the movie Jim is almost hung for being a runaway, and for murdering Huck. We all know that Jim is not a murder, he is only locked away at Phelp’s plantation in the book. In the movie Jim is a slave at the Gutherford’s place, but in the book, Jim is in the swamp surrounding the Gutherford’s place. …show more content…

He doesn’t want everything to be easy to do, because it would be boring. Tom wants to do more to get Jim out of the little cabin, like dig a hole underground with little knives, and make a pie with a rope made out of a sheet. Huck wanted to steal the key for the lock and do it the easy way, but Tom wants the long hard way. In the story without Tom to make easy sitiuations harder, it kind of kills the story in the movie. Without Tom, it cuts out some of the bigger things in the book. While Huck and Jim live on the isolated island, the waters rise. The waters bring in a raft to the island and the waters also float a house down river to the island. Huck and Jim climb in the house through a window and Jim finds a dead body, which is Huck’s dad. Huck goes into town, dressed as a girl, to find out what is going on and to get food. While in town, he finds out people are planning to go out to the island and investigate the smoke they see. Huck gets back to the island, warns Jim, and they take