8+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= The Devil's Arithmetic is a novel and a movie about a girl named Hannah that tells one story of the Holocaust, when Jews were unfairly killed. Hannah needs to go to a Seder for Passover, but while she is opening the door she is transported back in time to the time of the Holocaust where she needs to learn the rules of the camp in order to survive. At the end of the story she takes her friend Rivka's place (who is her Aunt Eva in the future) in order to save her from the gas cave and death. Although the movie and the novel follow the same ideas, they still have many differences. =PARAGRAPH 2= The book and the movie have many similarities. In the beginning of the movie Hannah has to go to a Seder instead of go to a movie with her friends. When she is at the Seder she has to open the door for Elijah when she is transported to the time of the Holocaust were people are calling her by her Jewish name, Chaya. In the camp she and her cousin Rivka learn to survive. In the end of the movie, she took Rivka's place in the gas chambers and tells her to survive. When she dies from the gas she is transported back to her time and finds that Rivka survived, and is her Aunt Eva. In the book, Hannah is in the car on the way to her Aunt Eva's for a Jewish Seder. Her brother Aaron wants to open the door for Elijah, but when she ends up opening it she travels back in time to the time of the Holocost. In the camp her new friend Rivka teaches Esther and Chaya the rules of the camp and how to survive. When Rivka is chosen, Chaya saves her by going to the gas caves instead. Even though they have many things in common, many things about them are different. =PARAGRAPH 3= The Devil's arithmetic movie is very different from the novel. In the beginning of the movie Hannah is at a tattoo parlor with her friends deciding on what tattoo to get. When she is transported she wakes up in a different time to a room with 2 other people in it, one of them named Rivka, her cousin. The village just finished the marriage of Schmuel and Leah's wedding when the Nazi's come. When they are in the camp women from the village has a baby girl, but since the camp doesn't allow babies the baby, its mother and Rivka's mother are killed. When some men from their village try to escape, they get caught and hung. At beginning of the book, Hannah is in the car with her brother on the way to the Seder. She gets transported to a small house with one other person in it, her aunt Gitl. The wedding of Schmual and Fayge was interuppted by Nazi's telling them to get in the boxcars. There is nothing about the baby in the book. When Schmuel and the other men are caught while they are trying to flee, they are lined up against a wall and fatally shot. Compared to each other they have both differences and similarities. =PARAGRAPH 4= The Devil's Arithmetic has both a novel and a movie, but I prefer the movie. I prefer the movie because it shows you what the Holocaust was like and how badly the Jews were treated, like when the baby and its mother were killed. Movies in general are easier to understand and picture than books. I would recommend this movie/novel because it's an easier way to grasp the Holocaust and the real evil it contained. I wouldn’t recommend this movie to people who have a hard time watching sad and scary things. Its hard to watch because it can get pretty gory at times.The movie shows the ways they killed them and how evil it was. Though both were good, the movie was amazing.