Jane Yolen The Devil's Arithmetic

Movies and books have been around for many, many years, and books go back to the start of time. Some people have taken a famous book and made into a picture show, or as we know it today, a movie. However movies can only be so long. Producers have to take away and add stories from the book to fit it in about 2 hours. Many of the movies keep the main story line, but sometimes producers of the show really switch it up. The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, was written about a Jewish girl who is tired of hearing the same old stories of the holocaust and the told horrors of the camps. She doesn’t know why everyone insists on remembering. Why do they want to remind each other of the horrors they speak of so often? She thought she would never know until the world she once lived in vanished in plain sight. She appeared in the past to a place she knew nothing of. On the way to a wedding, she and her friends get sent to concentration camps to work. Now she understands why her family speaks of it so horrifically and why they need to remember. As she says her final words, she is taken to be killed and ends up back where she started, at home. …show more content…
It is what makes the movie, the movie. Both the book and the movie express the havoc and chaos of the story. Both showed how much strength it took for each person to survive the beatings and the cries of loved ones as they were dragged out to be “taken care of”. The movie and the book are alike in many ways, also expressing the Jewish tradition that some Jews still cherish today. Both the book and the movie make a great effort to try and touch on what it was like in the concentration camps, and what it was like working in hard conditions. Most importantly, the book and the movie both teach us about remembering, and what it can, and will do to all, including