35+Compare+and+Contrast+Essay

=PARAGRAPH 1= "The Devil's Arithmetic" is an extremely interesting novel that was turned into a fantastic, but sad movie at the same time. Hannah is the main character who is transported back to the past in the time of the Holocaust. She is taken by the Nazi's to a concentration camp where she has to learn many lessons. She is finally transported back to the present when she is finally able to risk her life to save her cousin and best friend Rivka. =PARAGRAPH 2= In both the novel in the movie Hannah is forced by her parents to go to a Jewish Seder and her grandfather and Aunt Eva let her have many galsses of wine while they are reading the four question from the Haggadah. Hannah gets transported through time after opening the door for Elijahi and right after that she wakes up and goes to a wedding where Hannah gets capture by the Nazi's. Also Shmuel and the other men plan an escape and then are killed. Right when Hannah arrives at the camps the men and women are split up, they are showered, there heads are shaved, and then they are given tatoos. Another way the book was the same as the novel is that even though in the present Hannah can't speak Yiddish, in the past she knows all of the Nazi's demands that they tell her in the camp. Hannah realizes that Aunt Eva is really Rivka, the girl that helped her and was her best friend. All in all there are many things that are the same, but there are also many things that are different. =PARAGRAPH 3= In the movie Hannah meets Rivka right when she wakes up and she is her cousin, but in the novel Rivka is the little girl that she meets and serves her lunch. In the movie Rivka's just like any other Jew as opposed to Rivka helping Hannah organized everything that she needs in the camps. The Rabbi's family in the book was killed by being shot while on the other hand the Rabbi's family is killed by a hanging and the Nazi's fake that his wife and kids had typhus. In the book Hannah couldn't remember anything however in the movie Hannah remember everything vividly and told stories about it. In the book the only way for the males and females to communicate is if they worked sorting the clothes, but in the movie they had the men and women work together in the yard doing work. In the movie the women also had a baby and it was killed. In conclusion there are many things that happened in the book and movie that differ from eachother. =PARAGRAPH 4= I think that the book is better then the movie. I think that because, there are parts of the book that are completely missing or changed in the movie. I also like the book better because some of the characters are different then I imagined them, for instance; Yitzchak is a big part of the novel, but isn't even mentioned in the story. I also generally like books better because there is way more detail in the book and you get to imagine what you want about the characters. My favorite part of the book was when Hannah got turned into Chaya and she didn't know what was going on. My least favorite part was when the Nazi's lined Shmuel and Yitzchak up on the wall and shot them as Fyage just lye there motionless. I would recommend this book to anyone sixth grade level or above that likes reading about interesting historical fiction. Although the book and movie are both good I enjoyed the book "The Devil's Arithmetic" better.