56+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

The Devil’s Arithmetic is a historical fiction book and movie about a young girl named Hannah who experiences her family’s past of the depressing Holocaust. The __“Devil's Arithmetic”__'s time period takes place a long time ago when the Holocaust was going on in Europe. I was a very sad time. The main character in this book, and movie was Hannah. It all started when Hannah was forced to go to Passover with her family at her Aunt Eva's house. Hannah did not want to go to Passover. When she got the Passover at her aunt's house, she was able to drink wine. Hannah accidentally drank too much wine at the Cedar. Before they ate, Hannah had to go and open the door for Elijah. As she opens the door for the mystical Elijah, she hears questionable sounds and doesn't know where they are coming from. Hannah walks down the hall and suddenly she ends in a different time period. She realizes she is not in New Rochelle anymore. She is in the 1900's. She magically meets all of these new people and is very confused. She goes to someone's wedding and the Nazi Soldiers take all the Jews away to be "relocated." They shuv all of the Jews into a big boxcar. And take them away. They are treated horribly and have little room for shelter. Hannah is taken to a gas chamber and dies. Suddenly, she transports back to the cedar, still confused and finds out that aunt Eva was Rivka, her very good friend at the camp. Lastly, she enjoys her dinner at the Cedar. There are similarities and differences in the novel and movie of __“Devil’s Arithmetic”__ such as when the Nazis wanted to take the Jews away from the wedding, in the novel and the movie, they both said direct quotes: “You are being re-located.” Said the head Nazi. Also, when Hannah (Chaya) was telling Rivka about what the Nazi’s did to people, she said a direct quote from the book: “Rivka, they’re Nazi’s! they, kill Jews!” Some other similarities from the book, __“Devil’s Arithmetic”__ Are,  In the movie of “__Devil's Arithmetic”__ is completely different from the novel. In the novel Faye, the woman that has a baby and a wedding's name in the movie is Laye. When the Nazi's decide to kill them people that look sick they put them in an oven in the novel. In the movie, they put them in gas chambers. When the Nazi comes over to Hannah and her friends and tells them that he needs to find three girls that aren't working and they are talking instead, in the movie, which never happens. The movie is much different then that actual novel. Some other things that were different from the movie, that is in the novel is that, that when Laye is pregnant, they kill her on the spot. All though, in the movie, they kill her and her baby and Rivka’s mom. This happens because they are trying to defend the baby.  In my opinion I liked the novel much more than the movie. I liked the novel more because it was much more understandable. The movie was very confusing and did not have a narrator to tell why everything different was happening. I don’t understand why they would change the names in the movie. I like the books better than real movies because I like to imagine things and not just blatantly see them. I like to use my mind and figure out what is happening on my own. Also, when I saw the movie I felt like they weren't giving enough detail and descriptive
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