Deivl's Ironic: Comparing The Book And Movie

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DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC

There are many similarities and differences in this book and movie, just like any other one. But the lessons that we learn in this story are tremendous. Being happy with what we have because you and I are extremely blessed to have the lives that we live. That was just one of the many I will talk about.

The book takes the whole life of being in a concentration camp more in depth, and introduces more people and detail of what happened. It starts off just like the movie does, Hannah was hanging out with her friends and was called home to ready for Passover at her grandpa Will's house. Unfortunately hannah did not want to go to Passover with your family but was forced to. They were doing all of the normal Seder traditions until it came Hannah's turn to open the door of Isaiah. She opened it and the long green hallway wasn't there but no she was somewhere in Poland instead. With a brother and sister shmuel and rivka. She was talking of the future and they of course did not believe her. And they were about to leave for his wedding to his fiancé fayge. When they got to the synagogue, nazi trucks came over and Hannah tried to warn everyone but they all believe that they were just going to be resettled to another part Poland during the war. But instead they are being taken to knelt th worst places on the entire earth at the time. Were most of them will die and other will see how strong and courageous they actually are. Chaya will died but she will here where'd by many be raise of all of Her storytelling that the women said kept them alive. Hannah's aunt Eva was Chaya's friend and that is who Hannah was named after. Jane Yolen really did do a great job at getting everything correct of what it was like in the camps. The movie was a little different just like any other movie there goal is to Impress people and get people to watch it. Hannah is out with her friends again but she is a little older in this version. She gets called home and like any other teenager we have attitudes. So she complained about not wanting to go to there Passover and that she was tired of remembering. They all went together and dos there normal traditions but when Hannah went to open the door
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Having the ability to be hopeful and optimistic through all of their trials is very inspiring to me because, no matter how hard life gets it can only get better. Hannah tells them stories that obviously keep them going through it all. They still have to suffer a little bit of it because they both ride on those trucks for a while all close and compacted, with so many people in one at a time.

There are many differences in these 2 versions of 1 story especially with all of the different characters and some of them weren't even there. Take fayge for an example in the movie she wasn't even called fayge maybe didn't even have a name at all. Woah wait and who is this special guy of Hannah's in the movie? He wasn't in the book but he is the rabbi’s son so he could have been me times once or twice in the

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