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The Devil's Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah and her adventure back in time, to the Holocaust. Hannah is a Jewish girl who travels back to the time of the Nazi Germany. During this time, she has to undergo all of the horrible and cruel things that the Nazis did to the Jews. Sadly, Hannah dies in the concentration camps and then returns back from the past and into the future. Although the novel and the movie have the same story line they have both similarities and differences. The Devil’s Arithmetic novel and movie are similar in many ways, and here are some of them. One is that Hannah opens the door for Elijah at the Seder in the present time. When Hannah opens the door for Elijah she is transported to 1942, the time of the Holocaust. The hair of all of all the prisoners in the concentration camp was shorn in both the movie and the novel. The way Hannah returns to the present time is the same in both as well. Hannah dies and is transported back to the Seder. In both the novel and the movie, Rivka changes her name to Eva and become Hannah’s Aunt Eva. Both the novel and the movie may have similarities, but they aren’t exactly the same. The Devil’s Arithmetic novel and movie are also different in many ways. One of them is that Hannah and Rivka get their picture taken in the movie, but in the book no such picture was taken. Another one of the ways is that in the novel Hannah lost all of her memory, as opposed to the movie where she didn’t lose her memory at all. The movie had Hannah telling stories in the barracks, although in the novel Hannah told no stories after her hair was shorn. In the movie, Hannah, Rivka, and the other women had a Seder in the barracks, while in the novel there was no Seder. In both movie and novel there was an attempt to escape, but their execution was different. In the novel they were shot with Shmuel’s fiancée Faye in front of everyone in the camp. In the movie, all of the people were hung in front of the camp as well. As you can see there are a lot of similarities and differences between the novel and the movie of The Devil’s Arithmetic. Out of The Devil's Arithmetic novel and movie, I thought that the novel was better. To me, the novel was better because it gave a fantastic description of everything so I could depict a picture of what everything looked like. Also, the novel was more understandable than the movie. My favorite part was when they were in the concentration camp. I liked this because it showed what it was really like living in a concentration camp. Another reason was that it described the camp perfectly and sounded real. Lastly, it reminded people about how the Holocaust did happen and how brutal it really was. My least favorite part was when Hannah and her family were on their way to their Aunt Eva's house for a Seder. This was a boring scene that was unnecessary and could have been taken out. I would recommend this novel to anyone willing to learn more about the Holocaust. That's all you need to know about the wonderful, realistic, and relished The Devil's Arithmetic.
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