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What Really Happened In Devil's Arithmetic?
Would you be confused if you just opened a door and you were in a whole different time period and with all new people? Well, yeah anyone would, that is what Devil’s Arithmetic has in it a excited, fearful, and encouraging adventure of a young girl going through her Aunt’s and Grandpa’s childhood. Hannah just a normal jewish tennager who went through an amazing experience. Do you think that this is just a dumb fantasy book, that has time travel, and things like that. Guess what? Part of this story is true and it actually happened in real life! Confused? Well, I guess you will have to read this amazing inspiring book to see what actually happened.
In the book Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen and the movie Devil’s Arithmetic made on March 28, 1999. The story that Jane Yolen the author of the book and then Murray
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Hannah’s parents make her go to the Seder and then when she goes she gets a privilege that all the kids want to do but Hannah, she got to open the door for Elijah. When Hannah opened the door she went back in time to when her Aunt Ava was a teenager and with her cousins, she went back in time when the nazis took all the Jews to the concentration camps. Hannah then realizes all that happened in the camps that her aunt went through, and that Aunt Ava’s friend saved her live. Hannah then in her dream saves her Aunt Ava and then when she dies in the dream she goes back to real live, when she is at the Seder. When Hannah went back to her real life she told her Aunt everything that she knows about the camp, and then Aunt Ava was glad she knew too.
Although the book and the movie are quite different there are some similarities to them. The two different stories both have stuff that are the same, for example the theme is the same in both the movie fim and the book. The theme of this story is that the Nazis are so evil and terrible to

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