33+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

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"The Devil's Arithmetic" is a novel and a movie that are centered around the Holocaust. Hannah never really wanted to remember about the past, because she didn't think it was important. She went to open the door for Elijia while at the Seder. It was her first Seder she could drink wine at and over drank. She time traveled into the time of the Holocaust. She got to know how it felt like to be a prisoner of the Holocause. Finally, after going throught that experience Hannah said a line that took her to her grandparents house. While reading the novel and watching the movie it was interesting how a movie and novel that have the same title and are focused around one subject, could have so many differences and similarities, but the similarities aren't exactly the same. Isn't that interesting? =PARAGRAPH 2= The novel and the movie are alike in many different ways. The similarities in these tragic stories are in some ways different. First, the Nazis forcefully hearded the Jews into little boxcars, and were resettled. When reading the novel there was no room to even kneel down and pray. Yet in the movie there was a little more room to move but not too much. Second, when arriving at the they were seperated by gender. Third, the jews disinfected them first by showering them, then they cut their hair so no lice would spread aroune the camp. Fourth, at night they slept in wooden barracks, sometimes they didn't even sleep with any sheets.Fifth, after disinfecting them they were tattood with a new name that consisted of numbers except, before the numbers they either had a "J" for Jew, or "G" for Greek Jew. Most camps included the concept of disinfecting the camps. Lastly, here are the similarities, and yet they are different, there are differences that are totally different. =PARAGRAPH 3= Even though the novel and movie are similar, here are some differences. These differences show that not all camps were ran the same way. First of all, the boxcars had no leeway at all in the novel. As opposed to the movie where there was a little more room to move around, a little bit. Second of all, in the novel the people showered before cutting their hair. Yet in the movie, they cut the hair before the shower, and tatooing them.Third of all, people were chosen everyday in the novel.Though in the movie the people were chosen once in a while. Fourth, while the Nazis were in the process of resettling them, the Rabbi put up a little fight, he didn't use physical violence he used the power of his belief. For pay back the officers purposly chose the Rabbi's family, so it left him no hope and he lost most of his life. In the novel they just took the Rabbi and killed him. Eventually, Hannah ended up in her grandma and grandpa's house. It was confusing toHannah at that point, because everyone was saying it was because she drank too much wine. But Hannah still thought she went to the past. =PARAGRAPH 4=

I personally enjoyed reading the novel, "The Devil's Arithmetic" better than watching the movie. I enjoyed it more because I got the full effect of how she felt, and i could picture every scene on my own instead of watching how someone else pictured it. My favorite part was when Hannah gave up her life for Rivka, I liked that part beause it showed friendship, and how much she really cared about her friend. One of my least favorite parts was when the people who were trying to escape got caught and the officers shot them. I didn't enjoy that part because it showed me that people died because of their religion, and I don't like knowing people die for no good reason. This is a wonderful and exciting novel and I would reccomend it to anyone who likes stories about the past and historical fiction. Or anyone who is interested in stories about one's religion.