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Compare And Contrast The Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen
Do you really know what went on during the holocaust well Jane Yolen wrote a special book about how life was like in the concentration camps which later turned into a movie. There are many different things that go on in between the book and the movie like how there is a major age difference and how Rivka ends up being her cousin. That is some but there's also many similarities like how Hanna still tells her stories to keep everybody together and how Hanna still sacrifices herself for Rivka. Well I think that differences or not they still both teach that valuable lesson that one after one the deaths were adding and one after one they were disappearing. This is the book The Devil’s arithmetic by: Jane Yolen. One day a girl named Hanna does not want to go to passover because she is tired of remembering and gets really bored their because their is no kids. She begged not to go but they …show more content…
One day a girl named Hanna came back from with her friends and does not want to go to passover because she does not want to remember. She pleaded not to go but they made her and she went. When she got there she sat at the table to celebrate and she loved the wine. Aunt Eva told her to open the door. When she opened the door she was at a farm and she had an aunt and a cousin named Rivka they told her that her parents died. She went to a guy named Shmuel's wedding and they got captured on a train and they were took to a camp. They have a hard time in the camp being told that if they are sick or can't work they will die. Later in the book Shmuel and others try to escape and they get caught when they do they get hanged. They are working and the guard starts picking people and when Rivka is picked because she was sick Hanna takes her spot. They get rushed into a chamber and they get gassed. When she came back to normal time she knew that her Aunt Eva was Rivka and they talked about a lot of things that happened and they were

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