12+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

The novel and movie, about __The Devil's Arithmetic,__ is about a girl named Hannah who travels to the past during the time of the, Holocaust. Hannah goes to a wedding, but then the Nazi's show up and put everyone in the boxcars to be resettled. Hannah could only hear the loud sound of the trucks motor. Roam, roam, roam was the sound she heard. Once she is taken by the Nazi soldiers with her family to the concentration camps she has to learn the rules to stay alive. Hannah thinks she knows where she is, but is not sure because she thinks she drank too much wine at the Seder. Rivka doesn't believe what Hannah is saying and doesn't understand what she is talking about. At the end of the story Hannah comes back to the future and figures out her Aunt Eva was her friend Rivka, from the camps. Finally, the novel and the movie are the same but, very different from each other.
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After reading the novel and watching the movie I found a lot of similarities between both of them. One of the similarities that was in both of them was that there was a girl named Hannah, that did not want to go to the Seder and opened the doors for Elijah. In the novel, while everyone was drinking wine except for Hannah and Aaron, they were drinking water. In the movie Hannah was older and was aloud to drink wine. In both the movie and the novel Shmuel was the one that getting married. In conclusion, in the movie and novel, while Shmuel's wedding was happening, the Nazi's came, took all of the Jews and brought them to the camps.
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The novel and the movie were very different. Some differences that was in the novel are, that Hannah is younger in the novel and in the movie she is older. Another difference is that in the novel Hannah wasn't related to Rivka, she meets her at the concentration camps. In the movie, Rivka was Hannah's cousin. Also, difference is, in the novel the Jews were driven in boxcars. In the movie they were taken in big trucks to go to the concentration camps. Finally after reading the novel and watching the movie, to me, it looked like there were many similarities.
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In my opinion, I think the novel is better than the movie because in the novel it doesn't seem as bad as the movie looked and I would rather picture something in my head then actually see it. The reason why I would rather picture it then see it is because sometimes you could be picturing the wrong thing, so it might not be as bad as it seems. Something else that I liked was picturing how the characters looked and the scenes that they were in, but it was better to see what they really looked like rather then picturing it in your head. Most of all, I liked seeing what the two camps looked like. I felt really bad for the Jews back then. I don't understand why one person has to be the ruler and pick on only one religion for no reason and work, kill, and sometimes even starve a religion for absolute no reason. I would recommend the novel to people who liked to read about what had happened in the past about one's religion. I would also recommend the movie to people who rather see what had happened to one's religion, rather then reading about it. In conclusion, that is what I feel about the novel and movie, but also what I thought wasn't right.
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