16+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= The novel and movie, The Devil's Arithmetic, gave an idea of how appalling the Holocaust truly was. The way that Nazis treated Jews makes you feel upset and angry, because they were treated inhumanly. A young, Jewish, teenage girl, Hannah Stern, is at her family's Seder in her Aunt Eva's apartment. When Hannah is asked to open the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported into another dimension, the past. What Hannah doesn't know is that Rivka is her aunt Eva. Hannah struggles to survive, and goes through so much while in the Holocaust. When Hannah thinks back to the future, though, she can remember her family and friends, and that is what brings her back home. Finally, when Hannah is back at Aunt Eva's, she can connect to what her Aunt has been through, and as a result, she is thankful for everything she has. =PARAGRAPH 2= After reading the novel, and then watching the movie I was able to compare the two, and I found many similarities. One of the similarities that I noticed in both, the book and the movie, was how Hannah didn’t want to got to the Seder at her Aunt Eva's. In the novel, Hannah was permitted to drink watered wine at her aunt's house, while in the movie Hannah was permitted to drink wine, and that made Hannah happy. Also, Shmuel is nervous of getting married. Shmuel tells Hannah that he is nervous of getting married, more than being married. The main similarity that I noticed within seconds of watching the movie was that Hannah is transported to the past while opening the door for the prophet, Elijah. Finally, the last similarity that I was able to make was how terribly the Nazis treated the Jews, how the suffering Jews were forced to get their hair shaved, and how the Nazi made the Jews get a tattoo on their arm that consisted of the number that they would be called. I think that while making the connections between the novel and the movie, I was able to also, connect my life with Hannah's, and this made me enjoy both, the movie and novel, a lot more. =PARAGRAPH 3= Just like I was able to find similarities between the book and the movie, The Devil's Arithmetic, I was able to find differences too. In the novel Hannah opens the door for Elijah and says, “Here I come". In the movie, when Hannah opens the door she doesn’t say anything. In the novel, Rivka is Hannah's friend, and the two girl's meet at the concentration camp, while in the movie, Rivka is Hannah's cousin. Although Hannah lives with Gitl and Shmuel when she is transported, it is different in the movie because Hannah lives with Rivka and Rivka's mother in the movie. While reading the book I noticed that Fayge's dad, the Rabbi, only has one child, while on the other hand, in the movie, the Rabi has one son and two daughters. Finally, in the novel Hannah tells her friends the story of Hansel and Gretel, while in the movie, Hannah tells the story of the Wizard of Oz. I thought that by finding the differences between the novel and the movie made it a little hard to understand, but I really enjoyed watching the movie, and reading the book. =PARAGRAPH 4= I enjoyed reading the novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, more than watching the movie. This is because when you read a story you are able to read what the reader is thinking. On the other hand, when you watch a movie, you don’t know what the character is thinking. I thought that when I was reading the novel, I was able to have an image in my head of what the setting was like, what the looked like, and the expressions on their faces. I believe that the when I was reading the novel, there was more detail, and it was a lot easier for me to comprehend what the author's purpose was. My favorite part in the Devil's Arithmetic was when Hannah traded spots with Rivka. I thought that this was such a kind thing to do, and if Hannah did not risk her life to save Rivka, then Hannah's Aunt Eva would have never existed. My least favorite part in The Devil's Arithmetic was when nobody believed Hannah's factual evidence that 6 million Jews died. I didn't like this part because I felt bad for Hannah, and I wanted Gitl to believe her. I would recommend this book to the young readers who enjoy learning about the past. While reading this book, I was so into it that I didn't want to put it down! I think that reading the novel and watching the movie gave me a better understanding of what the Holocaust was like, but nobody will ever understand how tragic, and terrible it really was