38+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= "__The Devil's Arithmetic__" is a story made into a book and a movie. The main character, a girl named Hannah, is twelve years old. In the story, Hannah finds herself back in the past when she opens the door for Elijah, a Jewish God. She goes back to the time of the concentration camps run by the Nazis. This is very scary to Hannah because she realizes that this is not a joke, it is real. She decides she has to work and do whatever the Nazis tell her to do. The story goes on about what life is like being in the concentration camp for the Jewish people. Being sick at one of these camps was a death sentence. Hannah and her friend, Rivka, were working one day and one of the Nazis caught Rivka coughing. He called Rivka to come over to him so he could use her to make a "full load" of people to put in the smoke stacks. Hannah realizes her friend is in trouble and decides to take her place. Finally at the end of the story, Hannah dies. She wakes up in her Aunt Eva's arms and realizes it was all a dream. In addition this book has a lot of different parts and it also has some similarites as well.

=PARAGRAPH 2= Versions of "__The Devil's Arithmetic__" in book and movie from seem to have a lot of similarities and differences between each of them. One of the similarities between the two is when Rivka is supposed to be killed by the Nazis. In both versions, Hannah told Rivka that she would take her spot. Hannah took her scarf as a piece that identified her as Rivka. Also, in the novel and in the movie, Hannah told Rivka she would see her in the future. Also when Rivka and Hannah arrived to the concentration camps the Nazis put a tattoo on their arms. They used a stick like tool to do this. Another comparison is that the Nazis also shorn their hair so all of the Jews would have only pieces of hair left. One last similarity is that in both the movie and novel Hannah originally lives in New Rochelle. Overall, the movie and the novel had many similarities between them.

=PARAGRAPH 3= On the other hand, there are a lot of differences between the novel and movie version of "__The Devils Arithmetic__". One difference is that Hannah is much older in the movie, but in the novel Hannah is actually twelve years old. Another difference is that in the novel Hannah and Rivka were best friends and in the movie Hannah and Rivka are cousins. In the novel Hannah has a younger brother named Aaron but in the movie she doesn't have a brother at all. Also in the movie Hannah has a car and she drives. In the novel Hannah dosen't drive and she also doesn't have a car as well. One last difference is in the movie when Hannah goes back into the past to the concentration camps people told her that her parents got stolen but, in the movie her parents died that's what she heard. Although there were some differences between the movie and the novel, the story line stayed the same and still had the same message.

=PARAGRAPH 4= I like the movie much better than the actual novel. During the movie, I was able to see what was going on. It was funny to me because it was nothing like what I pictured in my head. My favorite part of the novel was when Hannah took Rivka's spot in the smoke stacks. I liked how she was being really nice and she knew that someday she would see Rivka again. In addition, my least favorite part of the novel was when Shmuel and Fayge were trying to get married but the boxcar's came up with Nazis and took all of the guests and said that they were going to relocate them. They had no reason to do that, it was just cruel what the Nazis did to the Jewish people without reason. I would recommend this book to any one that is interested in the Holocaust and concentration camps. In conclusion, I liked reading and watching "__The Devil's Arithmetic__" I think that I learned a lot more about the Holocaust, the concentration camps, and also what all of the Nazis did to the Jewish people.