Tom Sawyer Movie Vs Book

Recently, our English 9 Honors class has read the book Tom Sawyer, and afterwards we watched the movie adaptation, in which it was called Tom & Huck. Many similarities and differences are apparent between the film and the novel, in which some are good, and some are not so good. The film is excellent; however, it lacks certain characteristics of the book which make it interesting and enjoyable. This movie is not an accurate representation of the story of Tom Sawyer, and I would not advise those who have never read the book to watch the movie, mostly since many of the events that occur in the movie are not at all similar to the book or do not happen in the same order. Of course, the movie isn’t entirely filled with errors and mistakes. There

In the movie, Injun Joe discovers a small chest in the grave of somebody with a treasure map, which leads to a nice horde of money. In the book, the men never find any sort of treasure guide anywhere. They go and search the haunted house just to see if there was truly any treasure, and there was. That part was irritating to me, because Injun Joe and the ragged man have never found any map that led them anywhere. Another difference between the movie and the book was that Injun Joe discovered that someone was watching them while he murdered the doctor. He found that out because he saw Tom trapped on the fence before freeing himself and then dropping a little green marble. That scene had never happened in the book, even though it did make it mildly interesting. The last thing that happened in the movie that was not at all similar to the book was how Injun Joe died. That scene was really messed up by the movie, since Injun Joe never purposely attacked Tom. However, in the movie, Injun Joe found Tom in the cave and attacked him and nearly defeated him until Huckleberry Finn came into the cave and saved Tom. Injun Joe then fell down a hole, which ultimately killed him. In the book, Injun Joe never even saw Tom go after the treasure. Injun Joe died by starving to death in the cave and the town discovered him at the entrance. Those two scenes were entirely different from one another and quite annoying, to me at