Comparing The Movie The Devil's Arithmetic

Have you ever read a book and then watched the movie? If you have, you know that there are many differences and similarities. There are differences and similarities in the plot, the themes, and the characters. This paper is going to give a summary of the book and the movie. Then it will compare the characters, plot, and theme. It will also contrast the characters, and the plot. Here is the compare and contrasting on the book and movie called The Devil’s Arithmetic. To start things off, in the book and in the movie, a girl named Hannah is tired of remembering, and is trying to get out of going to the Seder. She has to go, and she angrily goes to the Seder with her family. She was old enough to drink wine, and she liked it so she kept drinking it. A family tradition of the Jews, is to open the
Most of the characters are the same in both stories. In both the movie and the book, you still have characters like Hannah, Rivka, Shmuel, Fayge, Esther, a baby, lots of kids and adults, and the Natzi army people. So as you can see, there are lots of similar characters in the book and the movie. As well as the characters, the plots are the same in some parts of the two genres. For example, there is a scene in the movie that shows four people trying to escape the camps. Similarly, in the book, there are four people trying to escape. Also, the people at the camps do work of some sort. In the movie, they are digging holes in the dirt. In the book, they are working in the kitchens. Therefore, the fact that they are working is the same. Those were ways to show how the plot can be alike. Another way the two stories are the same is the theme of the movie and the book. The theme is “Remember, never forget.” In the book, Hannah tells Rivka to remember and to not forget. Likewise, in the movie Rivka’s mom say’s, “We need to remember, do not forget.” That’s the way that theme is the same in both of the