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.

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.

There were many significant changes in the movie Devil's Arithmetic, all of these changes in the movie altered the integrity of the whole story and plot. These changes were taking out main characters, altering scenes, taking out scenes, and adding new scenes that were not in the book.

In the award winning novel The Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen, informs us that people in the death camps are treated like nothing with a lack of food and more. In the poem “To the Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up” By Peter L. Fischl. He informs us that the world did nothing to those who were in the death camps. Yolen and Fischl’s purpose are the same but in different ways in the story and the poem. They use tools to engage the reader Informing us on honor, and respect to the innocent jews that were lost in those fatal days.

Movies and books portray details differently. Books go into great detail while movies spend time on more important parts of the story. There are many differences between The Devil’s Arithmetic book and movie but the two different portrayals of the story have many things on common.

The Devil’s Arithmetic focuses on one concept throughout the story, remembering. Hannah is struggling with how everything in Jewish culture involves thinking about the past, but it’s not just important in Jewish lives. I believe remembering is important to Jews and non-jews so that history doesn’t repeat itself, Jews and Non-Jews can remember their relatives who have died before, and it impacts the story because at the end Hannah is proud to remember.

The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah, the story starts with her going

The Devil’s Arithmetic book was written in the year 1988. The author of the book was Jane Yolen. The movie The Devil's Arithmetic initial release March 28th, 1999. The movie and the book will show you how it was a terrible time of neglect, carelessness, and inhumane acts. It is something that definitely needs to be remembered. It gives you a vivid understanding of the terror that the Jews had in the camps, the

The Devil’s Arithmetic is both a movie and a book. They are so much different from each other. They only have a few things in common. They have more differences than similarities. I will compare and contrast the two stories by providing examples from each.

The Number Devil- A Mathematical Adventure is a trade book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger that talks about the dreams of a boy named Robert. Robert is a typical boy who is in an algebra course. He hates anything involving numbers and feels intimidated any time that numbers are brought into the equation so to speak. Robert begins to dream about a “Number Devil” who starts to teach him the ways of numbers.

I liked The Devil’s Arithmetic book more than the movie. The movie had a lot of differences that I didn't enjoy watching. The movie also had strengths and weaknesses. A strength of the movie is the acting. The weaknesses included the scenes, where they took place, especially at the camps, you could tell that the camp or towns weren't real.

In Hans Magnus Enzensberger The Number Devil a boy and the number devil interact through a series of dreams.it tells a story about a kid named Robert who goes and find outs mathematical abstractions in his dream with the number devil. The number devil has different mathematicians who make the story Felix Klein, Robert, and the 12 dreams. Enzensberger tells a story about Robert and his mathematical journey under the tutelage of the number devil.

People all around the world are rejecting and accepting their heritage. Devil’s Arithmetic is about Hannah, a 12 year old girl that get teleported mysteriously to 1942 Poland during the holocaust and is persecuted there because of her heritage. Some people think that she is starting to accept her heritage but the truth is that she still rejects it.

Books can be extremely detailed and pictures are painted for the reader by words. Sometimes directors try to transfer these books into movies. This is a very hard process as words written in a book cannot always be performed in a reasonable amount of time for a movie. These movies often sell the book short and there are differences, sometimes major changes between the book and movie.

Readers expect the film to be faithful to its source material in ways that a filmic adaptation simply cannot be faithful to a literary work, because “[t]he demand for fidelity ignores the actual process of making films, the important differences in modes of production” (16). Stam and Raengo go even further by claiming “[a] filmic adaptation is automatically different and original due to the change of medium” (17). Another reason why adaptations are infidel to their source material, apart from media characteristics, is money: “While a novelist’s choices are relatively unconstrained by considerations of budget […] films are from the outset immersed in technology and commerce” (16). A novelist only has to take his or her time to sit down and write a literary work and find a publishing house to publish it, and therefore does not have to spend large amounts of money. Yet, for a film to be made, numerous people are involved, for instance a screenwriter, a director, cinematographers, and actors. Thus, Stam and Raengo assert that while mostly only one individual works on a novel, numerous people are involved in creating a film (17). This also results in many different opinions on setting, plot, characters, themes, lightning and so forth, which then leads to