20+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

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__The Devil's Arithmetic__ has two forms: a movie and a book. This story features a girl named Hannah who is tired of remembering because all Jewish holidays are about remembering the history of their own people. She is one of the many that had to experience the appalling conditions of the Holocaust, although she experienced the Holocaust in a little bit of a different way than most. Hannah goes to a Seder with her family and gets transported into the time of the Holocaust. She then gets transported to the actual time of the Holocaust and then to a concentration camp. After she gets transported into a concentration camp, she has to learn how to survive through everyday life. Eventually, Hannah learns that she shouldn't be afraid of remembering anymore, and she gets transported back to her own time. Both of the stories in the movie and the book were very exciting and interesting. Although both of the stories in the movie and the book are basically the same, there are still some differences. =PARAGRAPH 2=

The novel and the movie of __The Devil's Arithmetic__ are very alike. First of all, Hannah is Jewish and is always forced to go to Jewish holiday celebrations about remembering, even if she doesn't want to. This particular time, though, Hannah is forced to go to a Seder. While she is there, without permission or any sort of warning, she suddenly gets transported back to the time of the Holocaust. At that time, she is met by her new family, and they take her to a wedding that is filled with fun, dancing, and lots of laughter. While they are all at the wedding, the Nazis take them all to a concentration camp where they have to learn how to survive everyday life. Now, the movie also has some things are like the novel, The movie also has a girl named Hannah who is Jewish, and she has to go to a family Seder, even when she wants to have fun with her friends. At the Seder, she is chosen to open the door for Elijah, and, all of a sudden, she is transported to a different time and place. She eventually finds out that she was taken into the time of the Holocaust and that she was in her newfound relatives' house. They all go to a wedding together, where the intimidating Nazis force Hannah and all of the other villagers to a concentration camp with challenging guns and snarling dogs. Although all of these things are similar, there are still some differences between the movie and the novel. =PARAGRAPH 3=

The novel and the movie of __The Devil's Arithmetic__ also have some differences. In the novel, Hannah is seen as a young girl of twelve. She also has a little brother named Aaron, who Hannah affectionally calls "Ron-Ron". Also, when Hannah is transported back to the time of the Holocaust, she is met by Gitl and Shmuel, her aunt and uncle, who she has never seen before in her life. Once she arrives, she realizes that she is now called "Chaya", although that is really her Jewish name. After Gitl and Shmuel take Hannah to the wedding, the Nazis take the villigars, who are scared to death and almost as hungry, to a concentration camp, where Shmuel, Gitl, and Yitzchak plan an escape from the camp. Although Gitl, Shmuel, Yitzchak, Hannah, and some other men all attempted to escape, only Yitzchak manages to successfully flee from the abominable camp with monstrous conditions. Shmuel and the other men were all caught. They were shot at and killed. In the movie of The Devil's Arithmetic, Hannah is old enough to drive her own car. She is an only child with no siblings. At the Seder, after she is transferred to the time of the Holocaust, she is warmly greeted by Rivka and her mother. Hannah is called her own name, "Hannah", and when the Nazis take them to the concentration camp, Ariel, Hannah's friend, planned to escape with some other men. Unfortunately, no one escapes, and the people who tried to escape are all hung. All in all, the movie and the book had many significant differences and liknesses. =**PARAGRAPH 4**=

In my opinion, although both the movie and the book were both pretty good, I liked the novel better than the movie. I think this because the novel had many exciting details that the movie left out. Also, the book described everything that happened so vividly that the movie changed. I didn't like how the movie changed so many of the details in the book. They changed the characters' names, some of the plot lines, and the roles of some of the characters. If I ever get the chance, I would recommend people who don't know much about the Holocaust to read the novel because, as I said earlier, it includes a lot of details about what the Holocaust was like and the actual horrifying conditions that people, who were exactly like us in every way except for maybe their religion, had to be put through. Also, in the very end of the book, there are some more facts about where the author, Jane Yolen, got all of her information from. In conclusion, I personally thought that the novel was more absorbing, captivating, and riveting than the movie.