The Devil's Arithmetic

Despite the differences of the book and movie there is also some similarities. The allision demonstrated between the two was one of the similarities. They both show Hannah traveling in time and waking up back into her original time just like the main character in the Wizard of Oz. The characters Hannah and Schmuel both stay the same. Hannah is the main character in both the movie and the book and Schmuel get married in both. Another thing that they have in common is the conflicts. Hannah goes through man verses society when she is fighting against the Nazis. She has to fight them for food, fight them for survival, and fight them for the safety of her friends. The Nazis are slowly taking away those things from her. She is also goes through man versus self. She knows all of the bad things that are going to happen and no one will believe that she is right, so she starts to second guess herself. She also thinks that they are the monsters so

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.

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.

While the movie did a good job of portraying Bethany Hamilton's story, there were still parts that were dramatized or added to the movie version that did not actually take place. For example, the movie edit makes the attack scene very dramatic, and rightfully so, in order to pull emotions from the audience, however according to the book the actual attack happened a little differently. Bethany was in the water with her best friend, Alana, and had her left arm dangling in the water.

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.

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.”

There were 6 Nazi extermination camps, including Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. The Devil's Arithmetic book and movie both have similarities and differences. Similarities include, allusions, main character, man vs. society, and man vs. self or internal conflict. Differences include main character Rivka, Yitzchak, Tzipporah, and Reuven are not in the movie, Hannah has different beginning and age, and the execution was carried out different. There are two main themes, those are the importance of family history, and the other theme is perseverance.

In the book and the movie Hannah is transported to the 1940´s and sent to a concentration camp to learn what it was like to be a jew back in the 1940´s. In the book and the movie she has to go through grueling labor to survive the camps horrors. In both the stories she is faced with sickness and starvation as she fights for her survival. She has help from her friend Rivka to help her sanity and starvation. But as a tragic ending for both the film and the movie Hannah/Chaya dies due to the gas

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.

Guns. Pain. Blood. Tears. Regret. These words represent a mass genocide. These words represent the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of the European Jewish people caused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The destruction of the Jews began in Germany and eventually hatred towards Jews was spread all over the world. Over 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust and constantly people were injured. The central idea of the Holocaust was that it had a negative impact on most people who were involved. The theme of the Holocaust is all people should be treated fairly and humanely. During the Holocaust, Jews were treated unfairly and the genocide had a negative impact on the people involved.

Hannah is starting to worry about the order of the Seder dinner and the practices.But some say that she is not willing to put in the effort to get into the practices.Hannah says “It’s about remembering. … I’m tired of remembering.” She is not getting a grip on the true meaning of the religion she is just worried about what she has to say to make it work. And when she has made her part she doesn’t care anymore.But this is not true she does care. It is made obvious when she says “The Seder wasn’t even in the right order, not like they taught in Sunday school.” Hannah wants things to be practiced in the proper order and wants the fullest religious experience.

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

I remember when I was in the eighth grade, the entire class was assigned a project revolving around the Holocaust: each rotation of classes brought us all into the next level of this month-long project. In one class, we made scale models of what we thought would be a proper shelter for hiding in and in another, we read Holocaust era literature, such as Anne Frank’s Diary and Eli Wiesel’s Night. In what was normally our History class, we watched and read The Devil’s Arithmetic. Written by Jane Yolen, the story follows that of a young girl whose family is experiencing Passover. When showing her disinterest in the event, she is transported to Auschwitz during World War II to learn the importance of her heritage.

The Devil’s Arithmetic teaches us countless lessons throughout both forms of publishing. Each form however has a different lesson and develops them in different ways. The book differentiates from the movie in numerous ways. In both the book and the movie there are many similarities, but there is still diversity. Each form of media develops their individual themes differently because that makes it more apparent for the viewers to understand and absorb.

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.