41+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= Have you ever heard of __The Devil's Arithmetic?__ Well, __The Devil's Arithmetic__ is a novel and a movie. Hannah, the main character, is transported by opening the door for Elijah, to the time of the Holocaust. Hannah has to learn how to survive the harsh live of living as a Jew, in a concentration camp and the tasks the Nazis give her. When the Nazis chose her friend Rivka to be gassed Hannah saves Rivka's life by taking her place. By saving Rivka's from being gassed Hannah is transported back into the future. Hannah learns to always remember. Overall novel and the movie has both similarities and differences. =PARAGRAPH 2= Believe it or not the movie and the novel have many similarities. For instance in both the novel and the movie, the main character, Hannah, doesn't want to go to the family Seder of Passover. Hannah argues with her mother about going to the Seder, but she still has to go. As well Hannah travels to the past by opening the door for Elijah, which is a Jewish tradition, and she comes back to the present day by being gassed by the Nazi soldiers. They get shorn of there hair and are made to change their clothing. The Nazi soliders also make the Jews give them their valuables.They say it is for safe keeping, but they really use it for their own good. Likewise, there is a plan to escape the concentration camps in the novel and the movie. They bribe one of the guards, but the guard tricks them and they get caught. Rivka, Hannah's friend, was supposed to be chosen to get gassed, but Hannah took her place. Also the main theme in __The Devil's Arithmetic__ is remembering. Hannah is told to always remember because that is all the prove the Jews have, their memory. As you can see there are many similarly feature, but there are differences as well.

=PARAGRAPH 3= You may think the movie and the novel, The Devil's Arithmetic have no differences, but they do! First of all Hannah in the movie is old enough to drive. However in the book she is still about twelve. Rivka, in the novel, is a friend Hannah meets in the concentration camps. Rivka teaches her about what to do in the camps and what not to do.in the movie Rivka is Hannah's cousin when she wakes up in the past. In the novel Shmuel, Hannah's uncle, doesn't get married to Fagye, his finance, because the Nazis come to "resettle" them. Although in the book they rush the wedding ceremony when they see Nazi soldiers on there way. Shmuel and his finance get married. As the novel states Hannah and the other Jews are forced to take showers.Hannah thinks they will be gas showers,but she is relieved. when water comes out not gas. As you can tell in the movie they do not take showers. Right away they get they hair cut off and they get their tattoos. In the movie Hannah doesn't spend much time walking through the forest before the wedding. It is a quick short walk. Even though there is music there is not dancing at all. In the story Hannah takes a long walk to get to the wedding. She meets some other girl who are main characters. A whole chapter is based on Hannah telling the girls fairy tales.When Hannah is transported back to the present time she goes through "Lilith's Cave". This is a place with gas ovens. in the movie Hannah doesn't go through a gas oven she goes into a ditch and is gassed. When she is back in the present day she finds herself laying on a bed. There are many differences and yet the novel and the movie are both the same.

=PARAGRAPH 4= I enjoyed the novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, better than the movie. The novel was very descriptive and you could picture the story in your mind. I also liked it because it told about history in an interesting way. My favorite part of the novel was when they were walking in the forest for the wedding ceremony. I liked the scene because Hannah was telling fairy tales to the children and they seemed so amazed at the tales. My least favorite part of the book was when the Nazis came to the wedding and lied to the Jews and said that there was a resettlement when they really were going to the concentration camps. I didn't enjoy this part because I was thinking of all the bad things that could happen. I didn't want them to go. I would definitely recommend reading this book because it shows you the harsh times the Jewish people had to go through in a different way. It is very interesting how a girl about twelve time travels to the past and the illusion seems so real. I would read this book again and again if I could.