It is clearly possible for two entirely different people from diverse worlds to have uncommon thoughts and interests, but how is it possible they have things in common? Hannah experiences the great suffering and torture of the Holocaust. Passover was a very dreadful time for Hannah, but it is nothing like what she experiences when she enters through the door. She registers she isn’t where she belongs and has gone back in time. During the blast from the past, the young Jewish girl is sent away to a concentration camp. Jonas lives in the community where everyone is alike and there are many restrictions. During the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, but the feelings he is given are too much to bear. There is no question
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For example, Hannah and Jonas both experience pain that they couldn’t ever imagine happening in their everyday lives. Jonas experiences pain from a tragic war in one of the memories given to him by the Giver. In this memory, Jonas sees all the hurt men, using their lasts breaths to beg for their mother’s and families that aren’t around to hear. He realizes what great pain the Chief Elder is hiding from the rest of the community. As Chaya is in the world not familiar to her, there is a great burden of pain and sometimes guilt. The concentration camps are very harsh and horrific in the time she spends there. She now knows what the Holocaust means to herself and the family left back in time. During this hardship, she experiences all kinds of dissatisfaction that she knows would not ever happen back home. In addition, when Jonas and Hannah are in foreign places, they both have something to connect them back to home. When Jonas left the community, he brought Gabe, his orphan brother, with him. Even though Hannah did not know, her Aunt Eva was actually Rivka. Rivka, in The Devil’s Arithmetic, was the woman everyone went to when they wanted to know how to survive in the concentration camp. Because all of their chores, they were brought together in the prison camp. In the end, it is clear to see that two different storybook characters have something in
For example, Hannah and Jonas both experience pain that they couldn’t ever imagine happening in their everyday lives. Jonas experiences pain from a tragic war in one of the memories given to him by the Giver. In this memory, Jonas sees all the hurt men, using their lasts breaths to beg for their mother’s and families that aren’t around to hear. He realizes what great pain the Chief Elder is hiding from the rest of the community. As Chaya is in the world not familiar to her, there is a great burden of pain and sometimes guilt. The concentration camps are very harsh and horrific in the time she spends there. She now knows what the Holocaust means to herself and the family left back in time. During this hardship, she experiences all kinds of dissatisfaction that she knows would not ever happen back home. In addition, when Jonas and Hannah are in foreign places, they both have something to connect them back to home. When Jonas left the community, he brought Gabe, his orphan brother, with him. Even though Hannah did not know, her Aunt Eva was actually Rivka. Rivka, in The Devil’s Arithmetic, was the woman everyone went to when they wanted to know how to survive in the concentration camp. Because all of their chores, they were brought together in the prison camp. In the end, it is clear to see that two different storybook characters have something in