Huckleberry Finn Book Comparison

The book “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and the film “Huck Finn” by Walt Disney tremendously contrast with each other. One version gives you a taste of the real world and the other a taste of sugar coated sweetness about how slavery was viewed in the eighteen thirties, eighteen forties time. Though the amount of these differences, you can still believe slavery is not humane. There are four main differences between Mark Twain’s version and Walt Disney’s version of Huckleberry Finn. These main differences are how Jim the slave is being portrayed, the mentioning of Huck’s mother, Huckleberry’s realization about slavery, and who is shot in the end. In the book “Huckleberry Finn” and in the Movie “Huck Finn” Jim is a slave who runs away from slavery and eventually becomes a free man. In the eighteen thirties to eighteen forties slavery was a popular practice. It was …show more content…
This is a crucial detail because Jim and Huck would have never found the courage to go through the freight of being caught for running away from slavery and faking a murder. Huck has troubles figuring out what is truly the right thing to do for Jim. In the film he contemplates, “Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.” In the end Huck finds his own meaning to not turning Jim in and that is because he sees Jim with kind eyes of friendship.
The last most important detail that Disney excludes from Huckleberry's adventure is the meeting of Tom. In Mark Twain's book "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" Tom is one of Huck's good friends. He is described to be book smart, although that could be a debate, and helps Huckleberry free Jim from slavery. In "Huck Finn" Tom never appears in character, and this has an effect on the rest of the story. Without Tom, Huckleberry is the one who is shot down in Disney's "Huck