Devil's Arithmetic

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Devil's Arithmetic Essay The devil’s arithmetic is all about Hannah that is at a passover with her Mom and Dad and little brother Aaron. And her aunt Eva said that Hannah should let the prophet Elijah in. The whole story is all about a girl about 13 or 14 and so was having a dream that was in the holocaust. So that is all about the intro to the Devil’s Arithmetic. The book starts out with Hannah at a friends house before the Passover and she asked her mother if she had to go to the Passover because she had already had a lot to eat at her friend's house. When the nazis came to the town they were right in the wedding and they were about to get married. On the way to the camps there were a lot of people that died on the way there and there was

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