The book and the movie of The Devil’s Arithmetic are similar and very different. The characters are very similar, however, in the movie there are some characters that are left out or changed. The plot of the movie is re-written a little bit and the heritage of some of the characters is different. Many details that are in the book are omitted from the movie, which makes some scenes confusing. The themes are the same, being that individuals need to remember what occurred in 1941.
To start with, the story of The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a modern teenage girl who is Jewish. Her name is Hannah and she doesn’t fully understand why she needs to remember the Holocaust. At the Passover Dinner, she is moved to to the past and there she lives the life of Chaya in a Death Camp. She learns and comprehends the horror that Jews went through. The book The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen was published ten years before the movie which was made in 1999. Both of them tell the story of Hannah. …show more content…
The character of Hannah is similar considering she is portrayed as a modern girl who doesn’t respect the remembering of the history of the Jews in both the book and film. Aunt Eva is also very similar for the reason that she is very gentle and loving to Hannah, and she respects the differences that Hannah and she have. All in all, the plot is similar in both the movie and book. In both of them, it starts off in New Rochelle and then Hannah travels back to 1941, and lives in the household of her aunt. Hannah and the village she lives in is taken to a concentration camp. There Hannah perseveres until she takes the place of Rivka and is sent to the gas chambers. The theme of both of them is that the population of people needs to remember what happened to the Jews. This is shown in the ways Hannah learns to
To start with, the story of The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a modern teenage girl who is Jewish. Her name is Hannah and she doesn’t fully understand why she needs to remember the Holocaust. At the Passover Dinner, she is moved to to the past and there she lives the life of Chaya in a Death Camp. She learns and comprehends the horror that Jews went through. The book The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen was published ten years before the movie which was made in 1999. Both of them tell the story of Hannah. …show more content…
The character of Hannah is similar considering she is portrayed as a modern girl who doesn’t respect the remembering of the history of the Jews in both the book and film. Aunt Eva is also very similar for the reason that she is very gentle and loving to Hannah, and she respects the differences that Hannah and she have. All in all, the plot is similar in both the movie and book. In both of them, it starts off in New Rochelle and then Hannah travels back to 1941, and lives in the household of her aunt. Hannah and the village she lives in is taken to a concentration camp. There Hannah perseveres until she takes the place of Rivka and is sent to the gas chambers. The theme of both of them is that the population of people needs to remember what happened to the Jews. This is shown in the ways Hannah learns to