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Jones 1 Patrick Jones English 2310 – 98A Professor Elaine A. Phillips 30 March 2020 The Epic of Son-Jara vs. The Lion King

Adaptations are usually formed from written works and are established to “further the story” or to give a story life. This connection could be from novel to film or vice versa. Adaptations also usually appear years after the first written/directed work with similar plots, protagonist/antagonist, and plot/storyline. The Epic of Son-Jara was written from a human perspective of Sundiata’s journey through judgement, exile, and rise to power. This same story was directed and adapted into a wild animal’s point of view in The Lion King with the main character Simba facing the same journey and battles Sundiata did. This adaptation became clear once both this epic and film were set in Africa around the same area. The only difference was Sundiata resided in a palace and Simba resided on pride rock. The Lion King is an adaptation of The Epic of Son-Jara because of being exiled and coming back stronger, the loss of a loved one, and the rising conflict over royal succession in their perspective families. One clear adaptation from The Epic of Son-Jara that was portrayed in The Lion King is the self/sent exile and how both Simba and Sundiata handled their time while in exile. While Sundiata went into exile with his immediate family, he strengthened himself to be able to return to Mali and take control of his kingdom after Sassouma embarrassed him to the entire kingdom. Simba leaves and goes to exile after being driven away from pride rock by the hyenas and Scar who have taken over the pride lands after they embarrassed him for “killing his father”. Here in

Jones 2 exile, Simba meets Timon and Pumba where he learns more about the way of the jungle and how to strengthen himself to return back to reclaim his rightful throne. Both Sundiata and Simba return to their kingdoms determined to conquer their exilers and become the rightful king. This was set in their destinies since before they were born. Another clear adaptation from The Epic of Son-Jara that was portrayed in The Lion King is the loss of a loved one. For both Sundiata and Simba, each lost a loved one at a young age. To be more specific and to add on to the clear adaptation, the King (Mufasa and Maghan) were the family members to pass away. King Maghan and King Mufasa both believed in their sons even after the kingdom did not after their birth. Their fathers early encouraging words, acts of kindness, and early missions to prove to both Sundiata and Simba that they are worth their destinies played a huge role in the development of their strength and courage to rise to power. One last clear adaptation from The Epic of Son-Jara that was portrayed in The Lion King is the rising conflict of royal succession between the families. A royal succession is dictionary defined as a line to a throne in which members of the royal family would come to throne if the reigning king or queen died. Sundiata battles with Sassouma after King Maghan’s death to see who will take his place as King. This became a conflict once Sassouma did not stop at anything until her son became king. Simba battles with Scar after his continuous grudge against Mufasa for becoming King after their father passed. This became a conflict after Scar directed his anger at Simba for being the next heir due to his father Mufasa. There are several more adaptations that would prove that The Lion King is an adaptation from The Epic of Son-Jara. Even to the fine detail of naming the main characters, antagonist, and protagonist with the same letter to start the name.

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