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Brief Summary Of The Book The Devil's Arithmetic

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The Devil’s Arithmetic is a book that shows the fear and horror of life in a camp during the holocaust. The main character Hannah, or Chaya as she is commonly known through the book, is a young thirteen year old girl who doesn’t want to remember anything about the holocaust. She is mysteriously transported to the past and learns about the true pain and horrors the people in the camps went through. At the beginning of the book Hannah is upset about going to her grandparents dinner because she didn’t care what happened in the holocaust. After going through the horrors during her grandparents time during the holocaust she understood what had happened and was acted more appropriately at the dinner. Hannah also made several friends during the story, and by the end they were all dead. Another instance of this is that Rivka lost her entire family except for her brother. This shows that the people in the camps lost many of their friends and family but had to live through that pain and fear of knowing that their friends were gone and they may be next. Hannah was a good story teller and told stories to her friends. They were always interested in the stories which took their minds off what they were doing. Hannah told some of these stories in the camp, took people's mind off the terror they were in. During the story Hannah loses memory …show more content…

When they would plead to live if they had been chosen or for a loved one not to be killed it shows the fact that they were scared in the camps. They didn’t want to lose their loved ones sent to the “smoke house” because they were all they had left. They were so scared they forgot everything else they had once had, the lives they had once, and the loved ones they’d never see again. The fear and pain that the Jews experienced during the holocaust was indescribable, and that’s what the entire book brought forth to the reader of the

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