25+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= "The Devil's Arithmetic" is a historical-fiction book, made into a movie, about a girl named Hannah who has the experience of traveling back in time to the Holocaust. She does not like that she is Jewish and does not want to go to her Aunt Eva's house for Passover. Hannah travels back in time to the Holocaust and meets some interesting people, including a girl named Rivka which she later finds out that Rivka moves to America after the war and becomes her Aunt Eva. Towards the end of the book, Rivka was told to go to the gas chambers to die, but Hannah does not want Rivka to die so Hannah takes Rivka's place in going to a place called Lilith's Cave. She then travels back to the future to her Seder. As a result, Hannah now is very interested in her religion and will always cherish and remember it. =PARAGRAPH 2= Both the movie and the novel have the same story line, but do have some differences. Most of it as all the same. In the novel, Hannah is elected to open the door for Elijah. Hannah in the movie gets voted to open the door, too. Also, in the novel, Rivka explains to them about their everybowls. In the movie, the people who attend the camp also receive everybowls. Hannah does not like to visit Aunt Eva in the novel. In the movie, she feels the same way and does not want to visit her. She also dreads the Seder in the novel. Hannah does not like the Seder in the movie, either. Finally, Hannah has trouble remembering. She starts to forget and gets very frustrated and nervous about it. In conclusion, both story lines are much alike. =PARAGRAPH 3= Even though both story lines are pretty much the same, the novel and the movie are very different. In the movie, the men and women intteract a lot. However, in the novel, they hardly talk to eachother. Also, in the novel, at the Seder, Aaron, Hannah's little brother, reads the Four Questions. On the contrary, in the movie, Hannah does not have a little brother and a little girl reads the Four Questions. Lastly, in the movie, Hannah did talk to Rivka about her future Aunt Eva. But in the novel, Hannah does not talk about her Aunt Eva to anyone. In the camps, nobody is pregnant in the novel. However, there is a woman who gives birth in the movie at the camps but her baby unfortunatley gets taken away. In the novel, Yitzchak, Schmuel, Gitl, Hannah, and other men try to escape but they get caught and the Nazi shoot them. They also accidently shoot Fayge. But in the movie, only the men try to escape but get caught and they get hung. As you can see, the novel and the movie are a lot a like, but also very different. =PARAGRAPH 4= I personally prefer the movie over the novel because the movie gave us a much clearer picture of what was really going on during the sad and unfortunate time of the Holocaust. My favorite part of the movie was when Hannah came back to her regular life in New Rochelle from the Holocaust because she talked to her Aunt Eva about it. Aunt Eva was so happy to hear that Hannah was interested in her Jewish religion. Aunt Eva even offered to make a copy of the picture Hannah and Rivka took before the wedding that Aunt Eva had saved throughout all those years. My least favorite part about the movie was when Rivka was so sad that Hannah took her place in going to the gas chambers because Hannah died and that could have been Rivka. I would reccomend both the movie and book because it really helps children realize how lucky they are that none of this is happening now in present day America. The book is very well written and the movie is very well directed. It really explains how hard life was back then. All you can do now is remember, but try not to forget.