Why Does Hannah Accept Her Religion

When you are put in a new environment and when people are around you, you tend to catch on to what they are doing and practicing. Many people think that in the book The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, when Hannah becomes Chaya she is different. Although some people believe that Hannah is not gaining any appreciation for her Jewish beliefs as Chaya, I believe that she is gaining a new appreciation for her Jewish heritage.

God grant Hannah’s prayers but his plan was greater then just giving Hannah a child. There are aspects of the story that parallel the greater story of Israel’s need for a king.

Hannah has experiences in the story that change her. In chapter three, Hannah drank watered down wine for the first time. Hannah also got drunk. “ Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the way with water for the next blessing.” this was on page 16. This experience is a huge role in the story because it causes her to fall asleep and have to crazy dream. Another quote is when Hannah says “I'm not Chaya.” On page 34, “I'm from New Rochelle. And I'm not Chaya, I'm Hannah’ When Shmuel’s eyebrows rose up and lines furrowed his brow, he looked so fierce Hannah moved back a step” Rivka explains to Hannah that she was sick and probably forgot. Hannah has many experiences in the story that change her.

This quote shows that as her hair was slowly cut her past was slowly removed from her memories. Hannah couldn’t remember anything other then from being Chaya. Furthemore later in the book she couldn’t remember any food other then the potato soup she ate everyday at the camp. Chaya also realizes that she took her family for granted. As Chaya she also realizes family is important, as well as where you come

Hannah was a good story teller and told stories to her friends. They were always interested in the stories which took their minds off what they were doing. Hannah told some of these stories in the camp, took people's mind off the terror they were in.

Hannah’s goals for the future was to pursue a career as an actress. She wanted to go to BYU or BYU Hawaii and then finish her education at Yale or the Juilliard. Another job she was interested in was an emergency responder because she wanted to be helpful. She also wanted to have a family of her own. It saddens us greatly that she never go to see this come true.

To cover the rudimentary understanding, Hannah, named after her aunt’s dead friend, is forced by her parents to attend a Seder at her grandparent’s house. She is allowed to drink wine and opens the door for Elijah, according to tradition. She speaks the words “Ready or not, here I come...” and is transported to the past. Hannah(Chaya to everyone else) tries to indicate she is from the future, but the people in the past(right around WWII) just shake their heads and think it is an aftereffect of a supposed illness that took Chaya’s parents. Hannah attends a

Hannah and Helmuth’s, point of view greatly differ in the aspect of their ideals on their religion, as shown throughout their statements and thoughts. Hannah states in Devil’s Arithmetic that, “All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama I’m tired of remembering.” (Yolen 4). Shown through this text and a large

Even so, she expects her to instantly understand their rural lifestyle, although she does quickly gain empathy. After the death of Yitzchak’s daughter, Gitl orders Hannah not to cry, for their pride is the only thing they cannot take away. This outrage against the Nazis turned to full on rebellion, with her, Shmuel and a few others attempting to escape the concentration camp. Her animosity towards being

Hannah has a brother named Aaron, and a family while Chaya has no siblings or a family. Since, her parents died due to a strange illness. Chaya lives in a village and does not attend school. On the other hand, Hannah lives in the city and goes to school. Being Jewish, Hannah always hated her heritage, while Chaya understands Yiddish, a language spoken by jews.

Overall, Hannah definitely changed as a person from when she first was brought into Chaya’s world to when she was leaving

Hannah is a twenty year old girl from Egan. For the past 3 years she has spent her summers at a bible camp up north called Trout Lake Camps. The first time Hannah stepped foot at the camp she didn’t want to go. She spent the school year there working in the office. But now the thought of not stepping foot there makes her think about all the good times and bad times she had. From sleeping in chapel or getting stuck in a canoe, she can’t help but be thankful for being forced to go there.

Call: God raises Hannah up in the presence of her enemy Peninnah. Hannah had a relationship with God. She made a commitment to God that if he blessed her with a son, he would be a Nazarite until the day of his death. • The call is a mystery.

Hannah is a 30-year-old divorced, mother of one. Hannah describes herself as a practicing Muslim with strong spiritual/religious beliefs. Hannah has no history of mental illness.

Hannah is a physical representation of wétikoism because she is described to be a part of something that is “powerful and large, and it was cold” (Hogan 100). When Hannah first appeared on Adam’s rib, Bush says that she was afraid she would stop breathing, which shows how Hannah was already at deaths door and had become a monstrous figure when she arrived at her family’s home because she lacked those basic human qualities. (Hogan 97). Hannah’s cold nature is representative of an internal imbalance causing her to take advantage of the people who care for her (Johnston 224). Upon her death bed, Hannah’s pelvis is “like an empty bowl” (Hogan 52).