57+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= __The Devil's Arithmetic__ was not only a novel, but also a movie. In the beginning, Hannah, the main character who is pretty bratty, travels back into the past, to the time of the Holocaust and experiences what life was like if she had nothing but her memories. Then, she has to accomplish the rigorous tasks assigned to the prisoners by the Nazis in order to stay alive. When Hannah finally started to remember, her best friend, Rivka, is chosen to go into "Lilith's Cave" to die. In order to save the future, Hannah takes Rivka's place to go to "Lilith's Cave" and die. While walking through the doors to "Lilith's Cave", Hannah is transported back into the future. In other words, she will never look at her relatives the same way as she did before this extraordinary trip into the past. =PARAGRAPH 2=

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There are many similarities between the novel and the movie. First of all, in the novel and the movie, Hannah traveled back in time to the Holocaust and experience what it was like to be a Jew during the horrid time. Also, the movie and the novel were similar because they both have a man named Shmuel and he was executed for trying to escape the camp. Another similarity between the two was that in both the novel and the movie, Hannah told stories to the others in the camp. One other similarity could be that in both, the women got their hair shorn and they got tattooed. The final similarity that I found was that in both the novel and the movie, Hannah saves her friend, Rivka, by taking her place to be executed by the Nazis. To sum it up, the novel and movie were somewhat similar in many ways.======

=PARAGRAPH 3= There are many differences between the novel version of __The Devil's Arithmetic__ and the movie version of it. For one thing, in the novel, Hannah was probably eleven or twelve years old, while in the movie, Hannah was about sixteen or seventeen. Next, in the novel, Hannah met Rivka in the camp and Rivka had already been there for a year or so. On the other hand, in the movie, Hannah met Rivka when she was first transported into the past and Rivka had never been in the camp before. Also, in the novel, the man who tattooed Hannah told her that "Chaya" meant life and she must try to live. In the movie, it didn't describe or say anything about the "tattoo man". Another difference can be that in the novel, Yitzchak, a butcher, was able to escape the camp, but in the movie, it didn't say anything about Yitzchak or his escape from camp. Lastly, when Shmuel and Fayge were executed in the novel, they were both shot. Meanwhile, in the movie, Shmuel was hung and Leye was gassed. Without much doubt, the novel and the movie versions of __The Devil's Arithmetic__ have many differences, even though they had a few similarities. =PARAGRAPH 4= The novel was better than the movie because the novel had many descriptive details and made you feel like you were really there.My favorite part of the novel was when Hannah saw the number on Aunt Eva's arm and Aunt Eva told Hannah that she used to be called Rivka. I liked this part the best because I felt surprised and excited to hear what Aunt Eva was going to say next. My least favorite part was when the Jews were all trapped in the boxcars because I thought it was disgusting when the author said that urine was overflowing in the buckets and I thought it was sad how so many kids and elders died in the trip. I would definitely recommend this novel because it was a very well written book about how so many Jews died in the Holocaust and this novel had many descriptive details that allowed me to visualize the events described in the novel. In conclusion, I enjoyed the novel a lot more than the movie.