Summary Of Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen

In the early 1940s, over six million Jews were slaughtered due to the irrational belief of their imperfection. Each day, people make decisions, and those decisions are guided by thoughts, and everyone has the right to those opinion; however, many people fail to believe that their thoughts and actions can affect the lives of others. There are people with a strong moral compass that carry around the weight of the horrific actions of others such as Peter L. Fischl, author of the poem, “To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up.” Throughout the poem, the author expresses how some people are in denial but others are haunted by the horrific events of the past. The narrator speaks to this young Polish boy, standing with his arms above his head, waiting patiently for his demise. Life is full of difficulties; if there were no struggles in life then it would not be life at all. The author creates a lead into the poem with the title, using a symbol for vulnerability. If someone stands with their arms in the air it means they are surrendering, they are vulnerable and defenseless. As the little Polish boy walks past the guards, he has his arms raised, knowing he has no say in what is yet to come. In the poem “To the Little Polish Boy Standing With his Arms Up” Fischl uses repetition and symbolism to enhance, that one’s actions affect the lives of others, and at times those on the sidelines have a worsening effect after all.

The purpose about learning about the Holocaust is to spread awareness about it and make sure it never happens again. The Holocaust was one of the worst things to ever happen to mankind. The killing of Jews, disabled people, and literally everyone else who questioned the Führer. The Holocaust and how bad it was is the main idea in these two books: The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen. It’s about a girl who travels back in time and experiences the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, a story told from the point of view from an eight year old as he lived right next to a concentration camp. It is also shown in two Scope Magazine articles; “Betrayed by America” by Kristin Lewis, which describes the

The poem is rich in the images of the senses which aid the reader to imagine this terrible massacre. By employing an auditory image in “Babies wailing from hunger” (8), Kimel evokes sympathy. The Nazis even tortured those innocent babies who needed nothing but tenderness. He also uses an organic image in “Fathers shaken with helpless rage” (10), which depicts the complete sense of loss of control, fear and rage that the Jews suffered from.

The Devil’s Arithmetic is gripping book that grabs hold of you and doesn’t let go. It is a book to helps children of this generation remember the horror the Nazis caused. It is important for us to remember the past. We should always try to remember. This book is to remember the chilling tale furthermore.

While reading the two short stories, Bitburg by Elie Wiesel and Three Poems by Hannah Senesh, the similarities of the stories was they were both about what had happened to the people attacked during the Holocaust and how it made them feel about the Nazis. When we thought about the connection between the two readings and Night the first word that came to our mind’s is ‘Holocaust’. Other words that came to our mind’s was travesty, destruction, cruelty, torture, and of course, death. In the short story, Bitburg, Elie Wiesel goes back to one of the camps he was stationed at and gives a speech to the people about forgiveness and moving on. In the poems, Three Poems, Senesh writes about how she gave up her dreams of becoming a writer to help out

The Holocaust, yet another unpleasant time in history tainted with the blood and suffering of man. Human beings tortured, executed and starved for hatred and radical ideas. Yet with many tragedies there are survivors, those who refused to die on another man’s command. These victims showed enormous willpower, they overcame human degradation and tragedies that not only pushed their beliefs in god, but their trust in fellow people. It was people like Elie Wiesel author of “Night”, Eva Galler,Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser, and Solomon Radasky that survived, whose’ mental and physical capabilities were pushed to limits that are difficult to conceive. Each individual experiences were different, but their survival tales not so far-reaching to where the fundamental themes of fear, family, religion and self-preservation played a part in surviving. Although some of these themes weren’t always so useful for survival.

The two poems “Never Shall I Forget” and “We Remember Them”, written by Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Sylvan Kamens, have their fair share of similarities and differences. These poems are both highly influenced by the Holocaust, the genocide of over 11 million people, 6 million of them being Jews, during World War II. In “Never Shall I Forget”, Elie Wiesel talks of his sufferings in a concentration camp and “We Remember Them” pass on the memory of those who died during the Holocaust. “Never Shall I Forget” and “We Remember Them” both have a shared theme of remembrance, but Elie Wiesel wrote of what he would rather forget than remember, whereas Rabbi Sylvan Kamens wrote of what he wishes to never forget.

The Holocaust was one of the world’s major tragedies. If you were a Jew the Nazis would take you to concentration camp and you would have to do everything they said, you would get your head shaved, and be treated awful. Millions died. They would choose Jews to take to the gas chamber, usually the weakest and most unhealthy ones because they weren’t much good to work anymore. “Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Kestrel, 1988. Print.”

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

Some people try to think the Holocaust never happened. They try to hide the horrors of the world behind the curtain they put up around their minds. It happened they can’t change that, no one can. Humanity often points out all the mistakes it’s made rather than looking at the good things, but sometimes terrible things have to happen in order for greater things to blossom out of the ashes. Elie Wiesel was one of these great things.

Have you ever wondered what the death camps were like in the holocaust? When all of the jews and enemies suffered at the camps. They starved, beating, worked to death, and killed. The holocaust was a awful time for jews and the enemies. Families were split apart and never seen again, men worked hard labor in the camps, mothers lost their children from deaths or just taking away.

<br>The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population.He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." One of his main methods of "doing away" with these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration camps. "In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials, the 'final solution' was decided". The Jewish population was to be eliminated. In this paper I will discuss concentration camps with a detailed description of the worst one prior to World War II, Buchenwald.

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.

As we all know, the Holocaust was a crucial time for everyone and authors have used different techniques to really show the readers the damage that was done. In “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas” written by John Boyne, the main character becomes friendly with a Jewish boy on the other side on the fence and he learns the torture of being on that side. In the novel, “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen, a teenage girl does not understand her religion but then is transported back in time to learn to respect it. In “Teens Against Hitler” created by Lauren Tarshis, we learn about young men escaping camps and helping others leave in order to stop Hitler. And last but not least in the article, “Betrayed By America” by Kristin Lewis, multiple families