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=PARAGRAPH 1= = The Devil's Arithmetic is both a novel and a movie based on a young girl named Hannah who experiences the Holocaust and sees what her Aunt Eva (who is known as Rivka during the Holocaust), has gone through when she was in the Holocaust. During the beginning of the story, Hannah is at a Seder for Passover. She has to open the door for the prophet Elijah, and while she is doing that she is transported back in time, the time of the Holocaust. In the middle of The Devil's Arithmetic, Hannah, Rivka, and everyone in the Holocaust are taken to the concentration camps for resettlement. The Nazis have tricked them into thinking that they are being taken somewhere where they will be living just like they would if they were at their homes. At the end of the story, Hannah switches places with Rivka when she is chosen to go to the gas chamber. After Hannah switches places with Rivka she is brought back to present daytime. Likewise, the novel and movie for The Devil's Arithmetic are very similar, but they still are very different at the same time. = =PARAGRAPH 2= In The Devil’s Arithmetic there are many similarities. One similarity is in both the novel and the movie Rivka will change her name to Eva if she survives the Holocaust. Hannah did not want to go to the Passover Seder in both the novel and the movie. When Hannah went to open the door for Elijah in both stories she was sent back in time, the time of the Holocaust, in both stories. Also in both stories Hannah drinks wine, and gets dizzy from it and gives it all to the prophet Elijah. Hannah also switches places with Rivka when she is chosen to go to the gas chamber towards the end of both stories. One last similarity is in both stories is when Hannah was transported back in time, in the past she was just getting over a terrible sickness. Both the movie and the novel are very similar, but there are also many differences.

=PARAGRAPH 3= =The Devil's Arithmetic also had many differences along with the similarities. One difference is in the novel Rivka was Hannah's friend during the Holocaust, but her aunt in the future. In the movie Rivka is Hannah's cousin and will continue being her cousin in the future. Another difference is in the novel right when Hannah switched places with Rivka she immediately went back to the future. But during the move, Hannah switched places with Rivka, went to the gas chamber, and then went back to the future. The first setting of the novel starts in the car driving to the Passover Seder at Grandpa Will's house, while the first setting of the movie starts at a tattoo parlor. When the Nazis shorned the hair of everyone, in the novel they cut all of it off, but in the movie they cut it so it stopped at the neck. One last similarity is in the novel Shmuel is marrying Fayge, but in the movie Shmuel is marrying a girl named Lia. All in all both the novel and the movie of The Devil's Arithmetic were similar but also very different at the same time. = = PARAGRAPH 4= = Both the novel and the movie of The Devil's Arithmetic were excellent, but I personally liked the novel better. I liked the novel better because I thought it had more detail and could picture the characters and settings in my head. The book felt like the story was complete. In the movie I felt it had skipped some parts and the story wasn't complete. Another reason why I liked the novel better is because I think the novel has a better ending. I think the novel has a better ending than the movie because in the novel Hannah never died. She went straight back to the present day when she switched places with Rivka, and in the movie we had to see Hannah die and I thought that was very sad. One last reason why I like the novel better is because I enjoyed reading it more than I enjoyed watching the movie. I never wanted to put the book down, but during the movie I sometimes got bored. The movie and the book were still both very good stories and I would recommend people read the book and watch the movie if like to eread about sad stories and watch sad movies. I would reccomend you read this book and watch the movie because they are dfferent and it would be good to watch both of them to comepare them to each other. My favorite the story was when Hannah came back to the future and explained to Aunt Eva and everyone how to read their numbers. This is my favorie part of the story because I liked how Hannah was sharing what she learned with her fammily and she was finally startung to understand what everyone in her family went through when they were in the Holocaust. My least favorite part of the movie was when the Nazis came and took away the jews for resettlement. This was my least favorite part because all the jews were falling for the Nazi's trick when they said they were going to be going on a little vacation. I liked this story very much and if you choose to either watch the m ovie, read the novel, or both i hope you enjoy it as much as I did. =