Devil's Arithmetic Quotes

The Devil’s Arithmetic features a Jewish girl, Hannah Stern, as the main character. Her and her family live in the United States, as their ancestors had traveled to America after the conclusion of World War II and the Holocaust. The movie goes back in time to 1942 due to Hannah’s lacking interest in learning about her family’s past. The time travel proves as a lesson to Hannah, as it takes her through t he Holocaust with her own family members. Throughout the movie, there are several accuracies and inaccuracies concerning history. Overall, the movie is very precise in reenacting history in order to portray its message about the Holocaust.

When she is at the warehouse she experienced fury, helpless and hope. After weeks of begging and praising the bow family to take her home. She was furiously ran when she could to try and get back home yet it lead her to a place she never knew of, the warehouse. In the brothel or the warehouse she violently attack many people who tried to touch her and she “... shrieked at the full power of her lungs...”to hopefully she would be saved from this miserable place. She felt hopeless after she was taken to the attic with Hannah to stay as she was a threat to other people from her actions. She felt that she would be there forever and thought after thinking everything was terrible, she realised she need her mum and prayed she was here with her. She yelled that Granny or Judah would came and rescue

Hannah has experiences in the story that change her. In chapter three, Hannah drank watered down wine for the first time. Hannah also got drunk. “ Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the way with water for the next blessing.” this was on page 16. This experience is a huge role in the story because it causes her to fall asleep and have to crazy dream. Another quote is when Hannah says “I'm not Chaya.” On page 34, “I'm from New Rochelle. And I'm not Chaya, I'm Hannah’ When Shmuel’s eyebrows rose up and lines furrowed his brow, he looked so fierce Hannah moved back a step” Rivka explains to Hannah that she was sick and probably forgot. Hannah has many experiences in the story that change her.

The Devil’s Arithmetic is a popular book that was written by Jane Yolen. In fact, it was so well acclaimed that Donna Deitch made a movie based on the book. The book and movie both follow a girl named Hannah who experiences what it was like in the concentration camps. The movie and book had their differences and were not entirely similar. Although they are different, both of the stories are very interesting and thrilling.

The Devil’s Arithmetic is gripping book that grabs hold of you and doesn’t let go. It is a book to helps children of this generation remember the horror the Nazis caused. It is important for us to remember the past. We should always try to remember. This book is to remember the chilling tale furthermore.

The story ‘‘The Devil and Tom Walker’’ presents the idea that greed is something which can lead to great loss in a person’s life. Washington Irving book’’ The Devil and Tom Walker’’ tells about a man name Tom Walker who is facing challenges with the devil. Tom Walker is a sinner and a hypocrite who is living life with his crazy wife, and being under leadership with the devil. Tom Walker is miserly, brave, parsimony. In the story Tom becomes friends with the devil. Tom Walker is stingy with his belongings. Tom is brave going through the darkest treacherous routes.

Tom Walker lived in Puritan, New England, a place that is very religious and criticizes wrong doings. Tom Walker worked for the devil, which in Puritan, New England is against their religion. If the people in the town found out that Tom worked for the devil they would have him killed or sent away. Because of these reasons and because the people of the town are quick to judge, Tom worked very secluded. So, in The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving uses detail to portray that Tom is not who others make him out to be, reveal that Tom is gullible, and to convey that Tom worked for the Devil.

Do you really know what went on during the holocaust? Jane Yolen wrote a special book about how life was like in the concentration camps. This book later turned into a movie. There are many differences that go on in between the book and the movie, but there are also many similarities. I think that differences or not, they both teach a valuable lesson. One by one, the deaths were added. One by one the Jews were disappearing.

The conflict of Hannah against herself is told by her in the thirteen tapes as she explains why she killed herself. Despite her conflict with everyone else, she is constantly reminded about her conflict with herself and her own emotions which are something she struggles with through the book as ‘’[she] wish[es] [she]

As a child, I vividly remembering watching the movie, “It”. I remember this insignificant event clearly for one reason. It kept me up for days because I was so terrified by the film. “It” was originally a horror novel written by Steven King but was also released into a movie. Every great horror movie has a villain or monster and the monster in “It” goes by the name pennywise the clown. Pennywise the Clown induces fear in me and millions of others because his traits closely resemble those of Cohen’s seven thesis which define what make a monster.

At the beginning of the novel we are introduced to a young boy nicknamed Wart, and based off of the time spent describing him and his actions, he will be the main character. Soon after the scene has been set Wart meets a Knight who introduces Wart to some pretty cool ideas, like monsters and chivalry. More things happen and, “A long time after that, the Wart was on the verge of the true forest, and Cully was inside it” (2, 18). While the context of this quote is Wart literally standing on the edge of the forest, it can also be seen as part of the hero’s journey when the hero is about to make a decision he can not come back from. Or the true start of his journey, in this cause if Wart goes into the forest he has chosen his path to become a hero.

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

Humanity has grown and developed an intelligence that allows itself the ability to extirpate every single human on the planet. Human can make the world into a destitute wasteland with the flip of a switch. In the novel Inferno, this fear becomes a reality because maniac releases a plague that spreads around the Earth that renders one third of the population infertile. While in the novel Angels & Demons, Robert Langdon is employed to find the people who have murdered a scientist at CERN. The situation is ominous and incredibly complex because the murderers have stolen antimatter which posses the ability to destroy a city.

The people who have been contributed to or help save the Haggadah often have their lives ripped apart. Lola was forced to leave her home city, Zahara was abducted and became a slave and even Hanna’s life changes when she learns about her father, and when she knows that the Haggadah in the museum is a fake and nobody believes her. The struggles that these characters go through helps the reader reflect on the character. If the character is strong they live through it and do their best to live normally but if the character is weak they flee and hide away. The stories that are associated with the Haggadah are often reflections of

“Without laughter, there is no hope. Without hope, there is no life.” This is a quote from The Devil’s Arithmetic, written by Jane Yolen. This book is about Hannah, a Jewish girl going to her grandparents for Passover Seder. She’s tired of doing the same thing every year, but soon, she will learn the importance of it. In The Devil’s Arithmetic, Yolen used the motifs of hope and inhumane treatment to show the theme, even if you’re being treated inhumanely, you should still have hope.