Huckleberry Finn Movie Vs Book

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Do you hate bad words? As I read the book, “Huckleberry Finn’, there were curse words everywhere. It caused a major problem for many students and many schools across the states. Find put out which version you prefer. The three main differences are the use of the “N’ word, Pap dies, and how Huck acts. According to ""Huckleberry Finn" and the N-word Debate" after one hundred and twenty-five years, the N-word is still making news over the states. In the book the word is usesd over fifty times. The debate between do we use the word, “Nigger” or do we say the ‘N-word”? Some people say it is a classic, others say it is rude and others say it should stay with the ‘race’. In the movie the word is left out. The reason being, it is a
Disney and does not allow “cuss” words.
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The Disney version likes to make things look pretty. So, the death of Pap is not as gross as we may think it is. In the book we find out Pap dies at the end. In the beginning of the movie is when we find out Pap dies. Huck does not know Pap dies until the end of both the movie and book. Pap does not play a big role in the life of Huck. Having said something about Pap dying, where was his mom in both; movie and the book? In the movie "The Adventures of Huck Finn" it says she died when Huck was younger. That was all that was all that was said about that. Nothing was said about
Hucks' mom in the book. It was just kind of added in, like many others things are added in the movie that are not in the in the book. That may have been the problem with Huck.
He did not have "parents". Therefor, did not know how to act when someone told him what to

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