Devil's Arithmetic Comparison

Have you ever read a book to prepare for the movie coming out, but when you watch the movie all you can do is compare the two. It’s the utmost distressing part because you expected the book, but you gain a new version of it and sometimes it’s not as exceptional. Sometimes they leave out important characters, or they leave out cool events, or sometimes the message isn’t the same. This will be comparing Devil’s Arithmetic. Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen and the movie made in 1999 is a story about a girl named Hannah who is Jewish and has to travel to her Family’s house every year for Passover. Hannah is named after her Aunt Eva’s friend, who is now deceased. Aunt Eva is the only one Hannah harmonizes with. When Hannah is walking over to open

Hannah, the main character, is a girl who is tired of remembering but when she is transported back in time all she wants is to be able to remember. Rivka is still the one who pulls them through a great deal of the camp, except for the times of her being depressed. In both the book and the movie they are traveling to the wedding when they are taken to the camps and are mistreated, some try to escape but don’t succeed and are killed. In both the book and the movie, Hannah starts out as not wanting to remember, but at the end she wants to remember forever because what you think you will never miss may be the part you miss the greatest. There are even some words that fit exactly such as, “Hungry jews are dead jews and dead jews can’t

Aaron, Hannah’s brother, was in the book, but not in the movie. Aaron was the one Hannah told stories to and she missed his blue eyes and him when she wasn’t there, if it weren’t for Aaron she might not have thought of things to do to entertain the girls but that also created her reputation as a storyteller so not everyone believed what she said. In the book Rivka was someone she met at the camp who was more experienced and helped them survive, but in the movie she was her cousin so she didn’t have much experience and went through a stage of depression from her mom dying and wasn’t that much help. Shmuel wasn’t her uncle in the movie, he has been just a character of the town they were from. Shmuel and Fayge actually got married in the movie, and Fayge didn’t die from jumping out to save Shmuel. They also skipped Hannah obtaining a tattoo by a guy whose daughter was also named Chaya but had died in the camps. In the movie they added a character, Hannah and him had feelings for each other, but he tried to run away even though she warned him it was a trap. There also was a woman who was pregnant in the movie, and had the baby in the camp, but their baby was found and the mother and the baby were killed, that’s also how Grace died. In the book Grace didn’t die in the camp, but lived afterwards in America, but in the book she died trying to save a woman and her