45+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

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The Devil's Arithmetic is a novel that has been made into a movie. Hannah is a girl who is transported to the past at the time of the Holocaust. She hated remembering and never wanted to hear about years when she wasn't even alive. While she is at the concentration camp, she learns about how hard life was back then. Then, she started to lose her memory about all that she had learned about the Holocaust in school. Her and her friend, Rivka, had to learn how to survive the camp. Later, Hannah gets sent back home to her present-day life and appreciates the Jewish religion more. Finally, the novel and movie are similar in many ways, yet different too.

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The novel and the book were similar in lots of ways. In the novel and movie, Hannah has to go to her Aunt Eva's for a Passover dinner in the present time. The people at the wedding were taken to the concentration camps. Then, they were shoved and pushed into the boxcars. All the Jews at the concentration camp had to get their hair shorn so no one would get lice. They had to get an identification tattoo on their arm. The men and women were separated on to two different sides of the camp. They had to sleep on wooden beds on top of one another. The Jews had to work very hard and rigorously every single day. Hannah told the people of the camps stories about the future. Rivka and Hannah switched places so that Rivka could live. Likewise, all are similar in the novel and the movie.

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Although the novel and the book were similar in many ways, they had many differences too. In the novel, Hannah is about 12 years old. In the movie, Hannah is about 17 years old. In the novel, Hannah has an uncle named Shmuel in the past, however, in the movie, Hannah doesn't have an uncle named Shmuel. During the movie, Hannah and Rivka are cousins. During the novel, Rivka and Hannah are friends in the past. Hannah wore the sailor dress in the novel and Rikva wore the sailor dress in the movie. In the novel, the Nazi's shot the men who tried to escape, while in the movie, the Nazi's hung the men who tried to escape. Nevertheless, the movie and novel are different too.

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Personally, I liked the novel better because I thought it was more descriptive and had more details. I also enjoyed the novel because I feel like it made more sense to me than the movie. I also liked it more because it gave me a better picture of what the Holocaust was like because the author gave me a picture in my head. My favorite part of the novel was while Hannah was in the concentration camp because it helped me understand what life was like during the Holocaust. My least favorite part was when Hannah went back to present-day time because I didn't want the book to end. I wanted to keep going. It was very exciting when she was at the camps. I would recommend this book to people who don't know very much about the Holocaust because it was really taught me a lot and I thought it was interesting. I really enjoyed both the novel and the movie.