Similarities Between The Devil's Arithmetic And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

A lot of people, at a young age, are told to embrace their differences. However, not too long ago, Jews were being killed, simply for being Jews and having different religious beliefs. In the novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, the story begins with a girl called Hannah. She does not want to reminisce about the Holocaust and in turn, is sent back into the past and is forced to face the horrors of the mass killing of Jews. The novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne, it describes the story of a young boy named Bruno, who has moved into the town of Auschwitz. One day, Bruno notices a wall that separates his family from the people on the other side. He gets curious and befriends the boy Shmuel that lives on the other side. …show more content…
In the article titled “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis, it talks of the Holocaust survivor Ben Kamm. His childhood was like any other child’s, yet everything took a sharp turn to terror when Adolf Hitler planned his mass genocide of roughly 6 million Jewish people. According to the article “Betrayed By America” by Kristin Lewis, during WWII, it wasn’t just Germany that despised a group of people just for being different. America disregarded the Japanese Americans shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They decided to send them to “Internment Camps”, which were camps similar to Germany’s concentration camps. Although these four pieces of writing are different, they all focus on the same message; All people should be treated humanely and