Essay On The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil’s Arithmetic ended with Chaya being executed, and then reappearing back in the United States as Hannah. Hannah remembered everything that she encountered in her travels, especially her good friend Rivkah. At Passover Seder that night Hannah noticed the numbers of her aunt’s tattoo from the Holocaust. Her aunt was known as Rivkah when she was a child. Hannah ends up being very respectful and sympathetic of her family’s past. The film provides a lesson to all of its viewers, which I think was its intended purpose. The film reminds its viewers to learn and never forget about the Holocaust, as it was a horrific point in world history. The viewer can be compared to Hannah, as everyone should be respectful when learning about the

One of the things people hate is to compare movies to books because they are too different from each other, or too similar and boring. Sometimes they are both too alike, and too different. The Devil's arithmetic is a great example when it comes to show the differences and similarities of a book, and a movie. If we didn't compare them then it would be easy to mix both of them up on what happened in the movie, and what happened in the book.

Do you know what happened in the holocaust? Hannah is a girl who at first hates her “stupid” religion. This young 16-year old’s attitude is very typical for most girls her age. Hannah from the “The Devil's Arithmetic”m has many experiences. Hannah values also change. She learns a lot too.

Imagine being a thirteen year old enjoying Passover with your family, until your transported to a Polish village in the year 1942. In the book The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen there is a thirteen year old, Hannah, or known as Chaya by the people in the village. Hannah is confused why the people are calling her Chaya. During a wedding in the village she is captured along with everyone else. They are all taken to to a concentration camp.

In “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” book and movie, there are many similarities including the same allusion of “The Wizard of Oz,” Hannah is similar, they have man vs. society, and man vs. self. “The Wizard of Oz,” is an allusion meaning it was mentioned in the book. Oz is similar to the book as Hannah was in a dream just like Dorothy. Hannah is another similarity in the book and movie as Hannah keeps the same traits in both the book and movie. She hates Jewish history towards the beginning, and respects it in the end. Another similarity is the conflict of man vs. society. Man vs. society is shown as it is the Jews vs. the Nazis society. One other similarity is man vs. self as Hannah still has an internal conflict in both the movie and book. This conflict is she questions is there any more I can do, and are we monsters or heroes.

Firstly, while in the concentration camp, Chaya meets many unforgettable people who help her endure the hardships of the camp. One of the young ladies she meets, Rivka, comes to the camp before Chaya and knows her way around. Rivka offers Chaya advice be saying, “You must listen if you wish to stay alive. I know the things you need to know in this place… We can fool him if we follow the rules” (Yolen 113). This encouragement towards Chaya shows her willingness to help Chaya survive. Rivka shows her the ropes, explains how to survive the Choosings and tells her not to speak out in front of the

The men and women are separated, and put to work. There is a Commandant who hates them, and they are slowly killed off(The Devil’s Arithmetic) per commandant’s orders. Working daily, Hannah and her camp companions steal things such as scarves to get warmer during the frigid days and gelid nights. Some young men form a plan to escape, but of no avail, even when they change their course of action. Next, they are caught and killed in a merciless manner, as is expected of the horrendous Nazis, who are currently killing more Jews daily than ever, probably due to the fact that the Allies are winning the war. Soon after, Rivka(Hannah’s friend) is chosen to die, to Hannah responds by taking Rivka’s scarf and going in her place to be killed; when she arrives at the chamber, the mysterious power that has transported Hannah to a seemingly dream past grasps Hannah

She one day went out for a routine trip with her aunt and uncle to the Mosque. She is surprised to find Nazi Soldiers waiting for her, they line her family up with the rest (Yolen 75) . They continue by laying them down on the ground, they sit there for hours, any Nazi Soldier or German could take anything they wanted, Jewelry, prized possessions, whatever. The horrors kept mounting up, they thought it was over, to find themselves being sent to a train boxcar (Yolen 77), where they were there inside for four days. The door was only opened once, to pass a bucket of muck for them to drink out of. Chaya had to experience holding a baby in her hands to it’s death. The Nazis did nothing but throw it off the train like a bag of trash (Yolen 83) . This kind of discrimination made Chaya realize that there were evil people in the world, that didn’t play fair and by the

There are other significant similarities between the movie and the book, so if I overlooked or forgot any extremely crucial points, forgive me.

The Holocaust was one of the world’s major tragedies. If you were a Jew the Nazis would take you to concentration camp and you would have to do everything they said, you would get your head shaved, and be treated awful. Millions died. They would choose Jews to take to the gas chamber, usually the weakest and most unhealthy ones because they weren’t much good to work anymore. “Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Kestrel, 1988. Print.”

Jane Yolen wrote The Devil’s Arithmetic with the main theme about remembering what happened,sacrifices, and honoring those who died. Hannah Stern ,a 13 year old girl, is tired of remembering and doesn’t want to go to the Seder. Hannah faces a dream that seems like reality where she learns what happened in Concentration Camps to the Jews. She learns that she must remember what happened to the Jews and she learns about sacrifice and honoring the dead. After waking from her dreams she realizes she must remember the Holocaust, honor the dead Jews, and stay true to her religion. The Devil’s Arithmetic film was made in 1999 based on the book written by Jane Yolen. The movie highlights the horror and dismay the Jews faced in the camps. Hannah the main character faces the disheartening nature of these camps in her dream which feels like reality to her. Hannah learns about the Holocaust and what happens if you were in the camps during the Holocaust while in her dream and she learns to

Thesis: The character, the setting, and the conflict contain similarities and slight differences in both the book and the movie, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Foremost, it is very recognizable that the overall flow of the story is same, but most of the plot events are not the same. Though, there were same events happening in both novel and the movie. For example, in both

Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more

The Theology of the Devil is one that is fairly perplexing but it also brings a humane logic which in a way uses a manipulative diction. My reason for choosing this section/chapter is not because it is easily relatable but rather because it is the most interesting in my own personal opinion. See the chapter says that all things are inadvertently evil, and he attempts to make to the human conscious relate to his point of view by bringing in the ideals of pleasure, how people as a whole seek it yet pleasure is almost always walking hand in hand with sin.