15+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= What is the Devil's Arithmetic? Well, The Devil's Arithmetic was made into a good novel and movie. It is about a young girl named Hannah Stern living a normal and happy. Hannah's family has seders every passover because they are Jewish. When the seder began Hannah was chosen to open the door to Elijah. She opens it into the past at the time of the Holocaust. There, Hannah must learn to survive at the camps with her friends and family in that time. In the past world that she is in, she has chosen to take her cousin, Rivka's, place at Lilith's cave. However, Hannah is then transported back to her present time again. In conclusion, the plot of The Devil's Arithmetic is very detailed and tells the real story of how life was in the holocaust. =PARAGRAPH 2= The novel and movie are very similar, and follow the same plot line. In the novel and movie, the character, Hannah, has the same name. Also, both start out at a family seder. Hannah was chosen to open the door for Elijah in both stories too. Eventually, when Hannah was transported to the past, she appears in house getting ready to go to a wedding. Also, in both the novel and the movie, the Nazis invade and take over the wedding. However, when Hannah gets to the camp, she has all her hair shorn. Another similarity is that everyone in the camps is forced to get a tattoo on their arm with a letter and number. After they have spent many days in the camps, Hannah starts to tell stories to everyone which makes them better. This also happens in both stories. Another very important similarity is that the men plan to escape from the camps, but then get caught and killed. However, both stories say that Hannah takes the place of Rivka at Lilith's cave, and saves Rivka's life. Even though there are many similarities between the two, there are also many differences. =PARAGRAPH 3= The novel and movie are different in a lot of ways. Hannah is a lot older in the movie, and is a lot younger in the novel. In the novel, young Hannah starts out in the car driving to the family seder. But in the movie, older Hannah starts out at a tattoo shop. In the movie, the brides name is different than in the book. In the movie, Rivka is Hannah's cousin, and in the novel, Hannah meets Rivka in the camp and they are not related. In the movie the Nazis burned down the church, but in the novel they did not. In the movie the Rabbi has a son, but in the novel the Rabbi just has a daughter. Finally, in the movie Hannah can remember back to the past because she did not lose all her memory, but in the novel, Hannah couldn't remember anything. Therefore, the novel and movie are not just similar, they are very different, too. =PARAGRAPH 4= The Devil's Arithmetic is good in both the novel and the movie, but I personally like the novel more. This is because I think it is more detailed than the movie. The novel is more descriptive than the movie, and less confusing. I could also picture each scene perfectly in my head. My favorite part of the novel was the part where at the very end when Hannah and her Aunt Eva were talking about there experiences. This is because in the past that Hannah was transported to, Rivka was her cousin, and Rivka turned out to be Hannah's Aunt Eva. So I loved how the past connected to the present time. My least favorite part of the novel was when the men who tried to escape got shot on the wall. That was mean of the Nazis. I think that I would definitely recommend this book to people who like to read and can get into a book because it's such a good and interesting book. It also teaches you a lot about how life was in the camps. So if you wanted to learn how life was in the camps along with a good story of a girl in the camps, then this is a good book for you. Overall I really enjoyed The Devil's Arithmetic!