Jane Yolen The Devil's Arithmetic

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...” This was true in FDR’s time, but not when you are one of the many people the devil has put in his arithmetic. In the book The Devil’s Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, has made a made a wonderfully unbelievable book showing what it was like when if you were in the concentration camps. Although you may not want to recommend this book to a second grader, this is a historical fiction that is almost on the spot with its historical facts. The fact still remains, the horror of it all and how everyone who lived had to go through it all. The Devil’s Arithmetic is a very compelling book and a very gruesome movie, but they both have similarities and differences. To summarize the book and the movie involves both
The movie shapes Hannah to look like she was around 16 to 18 years old. Despite this, Hannah and her parents, do not have Aaron (a.k.a Ron Ron) with them in the movie. Without Ron Ron this throws off the whole plot. To elaborate further about the book, Aaron found the piece of cloth and hid it in the dirty laundry. To illustrate, Aaron had to read in front of the whole group. Now without him, they just have a normal Seder with three children and not four. When Aunt Eva chose Hannah to open the door, that is the same for both, but when Hannah opened the door, she walked down the hallway it took a different way of getting to the small village in 1942. Whereas, in the book Hannah opens the door and she is already there in the village, listening to Shmuel singing and working out in the field, and Gitl cleaning dishes and making some sort of food. Speaking of Shmuel and Gitl, there was a Shmuel, but no Gitl in the movie. Also Shmuel looked a lot younger than I thought he was, but I think that is just because Hannah looks a lot older than she should have in the book. Setting that to the side, we move on to the plot, where the main thing is how Hannah does not get her name changed to Chaya but it stays at Hannah. Speaking of names, Hannah was Rivkah’s cousin in They also set the Synagogue on fire when they left the camp in the movie. Along with
There is so much more I could write about in the contraction paragraph, but I would go on forever. I like to think you see my point of view of this and see which one I think is the better version of the story. If you have not guessed already, that I like the book a lot better than the movie. I guess if we watched the movie first, then I would probably like the movie better, but I think that’s just me. I like the book mainly because I am interested in factual things and this was like a narrative of the true story. I would recommend reading the book and not watching the movie because if you’re like me, then you will hate how there is a huge difference between the two of them. One thing I found out would be the Holocaust Remembrance Day is the same day that the camps of the Auschwitz-Birkenau were liberated in