The Devil's Arithmetic Book Report
The Devil’s Arithmetic, the book and the movie, all of their similarities and all of their differences, in one whole paper. The book and the movie were very much alike, but they did have their differences and those similarities and differences are what we are going to be talking about in this essay. To start out with, we are going to talk about the book which was made first. In the book the story begins with Hannah and her mother arguing in front of Rosemary’s house, and Hannah wishes that her mom would not make her go to the seder at her grandmother’s house. In the book Hannah has a little brother and she tells him a couple of stories to make him less nervous about reading the four questions at the Seder. She is 13 years old and she wrote
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Hannah has no little brother, just her mother and father, and there is no mention of her grandfather at any time in the movie. There was no mention of Yitzhak in the movie, when Hannah first goes back in time. In the movie, Hannah meets Rivka right when she goes back in time, and Rivka is her cousin. And in the movie, Hannah and the Rabbi’s son are in love. Lastly, we are going to talk about what the story and movie have in common. Hannah does not want to go to the Seder and she ends up going anyways. They both have the same setting, same outcome, and the same theme. Hannah and her Aunt Eva have a very strong connection. She goes back to the 1940’s to understand what her Aunt Eva and the rest of her family (as Jews) went through during that time. They are taken to the camps and in the end, Hannah end up dying in the place of Rivka/her Aunt Eva. I just want to say that this is a book, and movie that I would most likely recommend this to anybody, because no matter who it it is, anybody would be interested in this book, and movie. If I had to rate this book 1-10, I would give it a 100, because this book, and movie taught me a good lesson, and that is that I need to understand what my family went through and what they are going through, and if you read it, you will learn the same
Hannah has no little brother, just her mother and father, and there is no mention of her grandfather at any time in the movie. There was no mention of Yitzhak in the movie, when Hannah first goes back in time. In the movie, Hannah meets Rivka right when she goes back in time, and Rivka is her cousin. And in the movie, Hannah and the Rabbi’s son are in love. Lastly, we are going to talk about what the story and movie have in common. Hannah does not want to go to the Seder and she ends up going anyways. They both have the same setting, same outcome, and the same theme. Hannah and her Aunt Eva have a very strong connection. She goes back to the 1940’s to understand what her Aunt Eva and the rest of her family (as Jews) went through during that time. They are taken to the camps and in the end, Hannah end up dying in the place of Rivka/her Aunt Eva. I just want to say that this is a book, and movie that I would most likely recommend this to anybody, because no matter who it it is, anybody would be interested in this book, and movie. If I had to rate this book 1-10, I would give it a 100, because this book, and movie taught me a good lesson, and that is that I need to understand what my family went through and what they are going through, and if you read it, you will learn the same