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Twain's Huck Finn compared to the movie The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic novel about a young boy who struggles to save and free himself from captivity, responsibility, and social injustice. Along his river to freedom, he aids and befriends a runaway slave named Jim. The two travel down the Mississippi, hoping to reach Cairo successfully. However, along the way they run into many obstacles that interrupt their journey. By solving these difficult tasks, they learn life lessons important to survival. The reader will find Huck and Jim more knowledgeable at the conclusion of the novel, and notice their love for life and for each other. After reading the novel and watching the Disney film Huck Finn, you will find many difference. Many of the classic scenes have been switched around and combined in the 1993 version. The major difference between the movie and the book is an important character named Tom Sawyer, who is not present or mentioned in the film. It is true from reading the story that Tom was a really big influence on Huck, who obviously wants to be everything like him. Tom can be seen as Huck's leader and role model. He has a good family life, but yet has the free will to r
Twain's major theme in the novel is the stupidity and faults of the society in which Huck lives. Huck comes to realize that Jim is a human being and deserves the respect and dignity that every white man is freely given. The novel only builds upon each theme with more examples that the film ignores. The last scene of the novel involving the freeing of Jim takes place at the Phelps plantation. Since this scene in the film is combined with an earlier one of Huck escaping from the Wilks, Huck frees Jim from a jail cell by himself easily and in a few minutes rather than in three weeks. He becomes more aware of the pain that Jim and the rest of the "negroes" have gone through due to the acceptance of slavery. The Wilks are never discussed again in the novel once Huck, Jim, the Duke, and the King escape from their town. The two con-artists go through many towns playing the same tricks and scams on the gullible townspeople hoping to make money. Both the novel and the film portray Huck to be generally kind and loving to everyone, but the novel shows Huck's appreciation and love for Jim more vividly since Huck sees the suffering Jim endures while being locked up in the hut. Because of Tom's absence in the movie, Huck has no one to idolize and therefore is more independent. All of these human failings are seen through the characters and the adventures they experience. There is cruelty, greed, murder, trickery, hypocrisy, racism, and a general lack of morality. In the novel, Tom, like always, must invent an extravagant and absurd plan based on the heroes he has read about in books. The book shows that the two belong together since they have connected with a special bond that only the best of friends share.
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