Huckleberry Finn Movie Vs Book

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Satirical novel set in the mid-1800s and follows a young southern boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures on the Mississippi that help him to grow and mature as well as teach him to question the world around him. The Adventures of Huck Finn was written by Mark Twain and focuses on the evils of slavery, such as the hypocrisy of Southern society, as well as Hucks moral growth throughout his adventures on the Mississippi. The Disney Film of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn changes small details and parts of the plot throughout the story that take away from the overarching themes that Mark Twain puts into his writing.

A major difference between the movie and the book is an important character

However, the novel goes into deeper depth of their friendship and expands on it in a way that the Disney film doesn’t. One key example of this is when Huck and Jim are on the Mississippi river and they get split up but Huck plays a joke on Jim that it never happened when Jim realizes Huck is lying he says “En all you wuz thinkin’ ‘bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed … I didn’t do him no more mean tricks,”(Twain 105). Jim is angry that Huck lied to him and Huck ends up feeling bad about it and even apologizes to Jim. What is so significant about this moment in the book is that Huck apologizes to a slave which any white southern person never would have done even if they were in the wrong. Since Huck does apologize to Jim, it shows the beginning of him treating Jim as an equal and really valuing Jim as a friend. However, the Disney Film takes a different view of Huck and Jim’s friendship an example of this is when Jim discovers that Hucks Pap is dead Jim asks Huck “If you was to hear that your Pap wasn't ever gonna return to St. Petersburg, like, if he up and died or some such, would you still help me to get to Cairo and be free? Or would you go on back home? I'd go back, most likely, just to see the look on people's faces. We'd both go back, Jim,” (Movie Script). Jim discovers that Hucks Pap is dead in both the movie and the book but in the book, it appears Jim doesn’t mention Paps death out of consideration for Huck, not for his own selfish reasons as he does in the movie. As the previous quote shows Jim doesn’t tell Huck about his Pap’s death because then Huck would go back home and Jim would lose his best chance at getting his freedom. This difference between the book and the movie creates to differing views of Jim and changes the status of