43+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= The Devil's Arithmetic was a novel written in 1988 that was turned into a movie in 1999. This story is about a girl named Hannah who traveled back in time to the Holocaust. While she was there, the malicious Nazis came and took her and the guiltless Jews in the village that she was visiting. They took them to a concentration camp and Hannah learned the rules of survival. Hannah realized how important it is to remember the past and she saved Rivka's life. When she returned to the future, she was thankful that it was just a bizarre illusion and she was in horror about the outcome of the Holocaust. Finally, the novel and the movie have many similarities and differences. =PARAGRAPH 2= There were similarities in the novel and the movie. In both the novel and the movie, Hannah went to the Seder before she was transported to the Holocaust. At the wedding, the whole village was taken away by the Nazi soldiers. In the camps, the barbaric Nazis cut the Jew's hair off and wrote identification numbers on their arms. Also, the Jews were dehumanized because the Nazis worked them to death, gave them little to no food, and made them sleep on wooden shelves. There were so many deaths every day. Likewise, the Commandant chose people to go to the gas chambers when he chose to. He did this to take out the sick, weak, and stubborn Jews that didn't work. The men who tried to escape were killed in front of everyone from the village. Last but not least, the theme of the novel was remembering. Therefore, there were many similarities in the novel and the movie as well. =PARAGRAPH 3= The novel and the movie of The Devil's Arithmetic had many differences too. The novel had more significant scenes such as, before the Jews arrived at the concentration camp, they rode a train and a truck. When Hannah transported, she saw a different house and a lady called Gitl. All of the characters seemed to fit the book and the events were accurate. Also, the novel was easier to understand because it took each scene step by step. On the other hand, The Devil's Arithmetic movie was very different. It took out a lot of the scenes in the book such as when the Jews got off the trucks, they were at the concentration camp immediately instead of riding in boxcars after the trucks. When Hannah transported, she saw an old house and two people called Meena and Rivka in the movie. The characters were completely different. In the novel, Gitl was actually Meena in the movie and Fayge in the novel was Leigh in the movie. Also, the events weren't that accurate. The movie was so hard to understand because they tried to compress everything in the novel into the movie and they showed each scene so quickly. In conclusion, the novel and the movie had significant and meaningful differences. =PARAGRAPH 4= After experiencing both the novel and the movie, I personally preferred the novel more than the movie. I understood the pain and suffering much better in the novel. It provided with more details. My favorite part of the novel was when Chaya met with Rivka at night so she could give the rules to stay alive and what not to do. It was an interesting list of rules. My least favorite part was when the men got caught and they were shot in front of everyone. That showed how ruthless the Nazis were. I would recommend this book to people that want to learn about the Holocaust and don't know much about it. It is very vivid and it shows what it was like. It is like you are standing there. As a result, I relished this delightful book.