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Comparing The Devil's Arithmetic
In the story as well as in the movie, they were both based around the same thing plus they were similar in many ways. The story of a girl named Hannah, or Chaya, that had hated going up every year to celebrate her religion of being a Jew. Yet, when she drank too much watered wine, she had passed out, then experiencing a vivid dream state of her in a fantasy world, during the time of the Holocaust. Yet, from experiencing and comprehending the movie and reading the novel, you can see how the director and Jane Yolen had written the novel and the script written. In the movie, it had followed the main storyline of the movie. The Devil’s Arithmetic, the movie released as a television movie. In the beginning of the movie, Hannah was seen in a tattoo parlor trying to decide what tattoo to get when she remembered she had to get to her house to get ready to go up to meet her family to have Sedar and celebrate her Jewish religion. When she is there, she drinks too much wine and falls into a vision of a …show more content…
The characters had been very much different. From the novel and to the movie, they had not even included the character under the name of Reuven. As well as, Rivka was introduced at the beginning instead of when they had met her at the camp in the novel. As well as, in the movie, the rabbi spoke out much more than in the novel. In the novel, the rabbi faded out of the novel as it went on. The plot from the novel and the movie was very different too. In the novel, the people caught escaping were shot, yet in the movie they were hung. In the movie, they had a Seder in the camp yet in the novel, they did not. As well as, in the movie, they had put pellets into the chamber to kill people, yet they didn't do that in the novel. They had other smaller details included that were different, yet they did not have any impact on the story, such as how they had to dig instead of doing their special jobs like in the

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