Similarism In The Devil's Arithmetic

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.

Both Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen and The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen have many similarities and differences including setting,conflicts,and characters. There are many similarities as well including goals,characteristics,and conflicts. Touching Spirit bear is about a boy named Cole who is abused at a young age causing him to commit crime as a criminal. After he burgels a general store,a kid at his school rats on him. In his anger he brutally beats the kid and is arrested and charged with jail time. To avoid this he goes to an island in alaska where he can rid himself and heal from his anger. The Devil's Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah who is part of a jewish family. After she opens a door she is sent back in time to another family where, her name is Chaya. From there she is taken to a wedding to which she’s captured by nazis and brought to a death camp. From there she has to survive the harsh conditions of the camp. In the camp she does try to escape but sadly fails and afterwards Chaya sacrifices herself for another girl and is killed but as she is about to die Hannah is transported back to the future and to her home and family.

“The Devil and Tom Walker”, written by Washington Irving, is about a greedy man who only wants money and who is very selfish. “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, written by Stephen Benet, is about a man who is sluggish and poor. He also is very cheap and his crops are very unlucky so they are dying. Although these men seem very different, they are alike in at least one way.

Through books, there is a deeper understanding gained by the characters’ thoughts. By adapting a novel to a film, there is a loss of connection and meaning. In The Devil’s Arithmetic, Jane Yolen conveys that remembering is key to identity and the Holocaust must be remembered. The loss of meaning is seen in the film adaption of The Devil’s Arithmetic. The meaning Yolen intends is affected by changes like the changes in characters, the film changes for appeal, and the Americanization of the film.

The Holocaust was part of the most horrific scene in world history. Both Yolen and Fischl have a deep perspective about WWII. Although they’re both talking about the tortuous war and have the same purpose to remember and respect the millions who lost their lives to the devil himself. They explain their purpose with completely different tones, and use writer tools in distinct ways. In The Devil's Arithmetic, Yolen goes deep by using knowledge and help from witnesses from the death defying time, but what sets Yolen's story apart from others is her rich vocabulary and strong facts. On the other hand, in “ The Little Polish Boy,” Fischl sets his tone and writer tools differently by, using repetition, multiple times and capitalizing specific

I really enjoyed The Devil’s Arithmetic, but when I saw the movie I was a little disappointed with it. The book is about a girl named Hannah who lives in New Rochelle and dreads going to her seder. The same stories are told every time. When she is told to open the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported to 1942, where she is called Chaya. She goes through the experiences of a concentration camp.

Religion. A large influence in many lives, belief in what’s right, and wishes in their life. This force propels the main characters in both books The Devil's Arithmetic and The Boy Who Dared experience strong faith at some point throughout the book, which urges both Hannah and Helmuth to go above and beyond. They are widely similar in that they are strong in religion and lead to tough decisions fueled by the values of religion (sacrifice, truthfullness, kindness). However, they both deeply differ, as shown in text how Hannah’s strength in faith make her realize she must remember her religion. Helmuth’s strong faith helps him find what is right and spread the truth.

“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster” are two stories which are both founded upon the Faust legend and offer their readers a glance at humanity’s thought patterns and struggles As the titles suggest, both stories depict encounters with the devil. Each story gives one a glimpse into the culture and the struggles of humanity through the depiction of the Devil, the role of religion, and the resolution of each story.

Two very divergent compositions of Holocaust dissertation declaim to their peers ths with analogous aspirations, yet disharmonious tones. Each author uses varied tools to convey the message to the reader. Yolens tone in The Devil's Arithmetic, is trying to compassionately inform us of the Holocaust. Peter Fischls poem,”The little Polish boy standing with his arms up”, elucidates how little Polish boy was immaculate and has a bitter tone towards us and the world for being bystanders. Both authors are inquiring us to remember the atrocities of the Nazis and educating us on the genocide of the Holocaust.

The Devil’s Arithmetic movie and book were both an emotional story of a young girl and her journey back to the horrendous holocaust. They both followed along the same line of how we need to “always remember” the holocaust and the unmanly way people were treated. Through both were very eye-opening, they had major differences.

In the early 1940s, the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, wanted world domination. They invaded many countries and sent many citizens to concentration camps. Many of those sent to the camps were Jewish, and were murdered for their religion. Jane Yolen wrote The Devil’s Arithmetic to remember these events, known as the Holocaust. Jane Yolen’s novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, delivers the message of remembrance more aptly than Donna Deitch’s film because of the character Rivka, the sacrifices made, and the dehumanization.

It is difficult for anyone to truly understand devastating situations that occur in our history unless we actually experience them ourselves. No matter how much we research, how many pictures we observe, or even the personal stories from the individuals who endure those hard times. We can imagine the pain and tragedy of it, however, can we truly understand it? In The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, is a character named Hannah Stern who undergoes a glimpse of such a tragedy and completely shifts her outlook on her family’s history in the Holocaust. Throughout the story, Hannah depicts an unappreciative hora towards remembering the past of her family, subsequently she receives the glimpse of the past and completely transforms her attitude.

Injustice wars. This was happening in the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic and in the book The Breadwinner. In the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic a teenage girl named Hannah has to go to her grandmas house for a religious party. She has to do a certain task at the party, but when she does it she travels back in time to the Holocaust war with her cousin Rivkah. In the book The Breadwinner a young girl named Parvana and her family were in a war against the Taliban.

There were about 900 concentration camps created by Nazi’s throughout the course of 1933-1945. The main ones were Auschwitz, Bergen-Belson, Dachau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Theresienstadt, & Buchenwald.

A simple bit of mathematics, like subtraction, were one taken away from the top line becomes one added on to the bottom. The devil's arithmetic. In this story that may be historical fiction, this small phrase means so much. Were the number being people you could be chosen at any given time and added to the bottom line. Unfortunately for them the bottom line was the death count. Being on the top was better than the bottom, but not by much. They were treated like animals and had to work for days with no pay. If these people did not work they were slowly slid into the bottom line.