Compare And Contrast The Devil's Arithmetic Book And Book

The Devil’s Arithmetic features a Jewish girl, Hannah Stern, as the main character. Her and her family live in the United States, as their ancestors had traveled to America after the conclusion of World War II and the Holocaust. The movie goes back in time to 1942 due to Hannah’s lacking interest in learning about her family’s past. The time travel proves as a lesson to Hannah, as it takes her through t he Holocaust with her own family members. Throughout the movie, there are several accuracies and inaccuracies concerning history. Overall, the movie is very precise in reenacting history in order to portray its message about the Holocaust.

Between the two books of different genres, a reader is opened up to different circumstances of two people. During the Holocaust, there were those who lived through the terror in Nazi Germany under Hitler's reign, and those who suffered from the work of Nazi’s ending up inside compact concentration camps. Within the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the Holocaust period was a key factor. Both the books stress the idea of the Holocaust, however are portrayed in very different ways. With the stories being told from different perspectives the true feelings of the Holocaust are understood and the similarities between all people are shown.

Hannah’s background as a Holocaust survivor is important for understanding the experience of the Holocaust. Her story provides unique insight on the Holocaust outside of concentration camps, dispels myths, and captivates the emotional aura of living during the Holocaust. Hannah’s story is one of resistance, danger, and the importance of family.

In the beginning of The Devil’s Arithmetic a song that would represent this part would be “Wake Me Up” by Avicii. In the story, Hannah did not understand the importance of why Jews do what they do. Therefore causing her to act how she does in the beginning. The song represents not being able to understand the world around them, which is demonstrated through some of the lyrics. This relates to the book by showing the connection of mis-understanding certain scenarios.

There were many differences between the book and movie. In the book Hannah had a brother named Aaron, in the movie Hannah was the only child. Another difference is in the book, Hannah had an aunt named Gitl who had given her the dress for Shueml’s wedding and cared for her through the time at the camp. In the movie though, Rivka who in the book was the person Hannah met at the camp, was her cousin and had given her the dress. A big difference between the book and the movie is when the Nazis told them that they were going to relocate them they had agreed and left with no force in the book. In the movie they were forced into the trains with force and violence.

In the book, The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, at the extremity of chapter 11, Hannah starts to have memory loss. I expect that it's exceptional for Hannah to know what is happening because she can know what will happen next, she knows important events of history, and lastly, she can support herself and her friends. With these factors. It's showing why knowing her what is happening is crucial. By having her memory, it will avail her survival in the camps. One reason I think that is important for Hannah to know what is happening so she will know important events of history. According to page 93, it says, “Hannah stood slowly, thinking: I will be brave, I'm the only one who knows about the oven, but I will be brave. What this is showing is

The similarities between these two stories is that they both took place when the Holocaust was happening. The Jews were all getting

Jane Yolen wrote The Devil’s Arithmetic with the main theme about remembering what happened,sacrifices, and honoring those who died. Hannah Stern ,a 13 year old girl, is tired of remembering and doesn’t want to go to the Seder. Hannah faces a dream that seems like reality where she learns what happened in Concentration Camps to the Jews. She learns that she must remember what happened to the Jews and she learns about sacrifice and honoring the dead. After waking from her dreams she realizes she must remember the Holocaust, honor the dead Jews, and stay true to her religion. The Devil’s Arithmetic film was made in 1999 based on the book written by Jane Yolen. The movie highlights the horror and dismay the Jews faced in the camps. Hannah the main character faces the disheartening nature of these camps in her dream which feels like reality to her. Hannah learns about the Holocaust and what happens if you were in the camps during the Holocaust while in her dream and she learns to

Both of these stories had similar characters such as Hannah and how she doesn’t really care about anything. Another similarity, Shmuel and Fayge are in love with each other and have their wedding cutt off before they were captured. The plot was also very much similar, both have same the concentration camp events that occur, such as the ending where Hannah/Cheya sacrifices herself so that Rivka could survive. Both the movie and the book have the horrifying thing of the holocaust. It teaches readers and viewers that the holocaust was real, and that there were men out there who were just pure

Between The Devil and Tom Walker and The Devil and Daniel Webster have some similarities and differences. Between both stories, the main character has sold their souls to the Devil. Between one story had a good ending and the other had a bad ending. It's a story based on when somebody makes an agreement with the devil in trust of picking up what they desire.

In the movie, Lindsey ran cross country but in the book she played soccer. In the book, the characters aged and grew up, but in the movie they all stayed about the same age throughout the whole story. Susie stayed the same age throughout the story because she could not age in Heaven. The book was better than the movie because you

Each character saw the events around him in a different light, therefore, his interpretation of what happened is completely different. In the novel Night and the movie “Life is beautiful,” the Holocaust is portrayed both similarly and differently through the father/son relationship, the debate between

Each of these novels takes on a different perspective of the Holocaust. The common theme among each is that it was ordinary human beings who did extraordinary things during the Holocaust. The average perception is that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were inherently evil, monstrous and immoral people, they must have been to commit such heinous acts? This is not the case. It was ordinary Europeans who for varying reasons including, wartime brutalization and lack of a collective identity carried out much of the Nazi’s Final Solution.

This story obviously relates to an identical idea.This excerpt from a speech was written and spoken by Elie Wiesel, who is a Holocaust survivor, when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel states how crucial it is to not forget what happened all those years ago, because we would become accomplices to the crime committed.He also told the audiences that we must learn from the past and speak out whenever we witness cruelty. Now that the details about how the first piece of literature relates to the main idea, next is the second story’s details and how it ties into this similar

The Devil's Arithmetic is about a twelve year-old girl named Hannah she lives in New York and she hasn’t really suffered like her grandparents who survived the Holocaust. When asked to welcome the prophet Elijah at the Seder dinner, Hannah opens the door and is transported back to a Jewish village in 1941. She wakes up to find herself in a old kitchen with Gitl and her brother Shmuel who think Hannah is their niece Chaya-which means life and they arrived from Lublin two days before, after surviving the illness that killed her parents. Hannah thought everything is a dream and decides to play along with everything. But they are all soon taken away by the Natzis and delivered to a concentration camp. Where they are forced to work and are tortured. While Hannah meet lots of new people at the end she figures out that everyone she