Unexplainable brutality to Jews without an ounce of God given remorse? It’s sickening, and that’s how many Natzis felt. They could execute hundreds of people in one hour and party all night. This is the central theme of both the book and the movie the art, The Devil’s Arithmetic. In the book it starts out as Hannah regretfully so, joins her family at the table for the Seder at her Grandpa Will and Grandma Bell’s house. When she is picked by her grandfather to open the door to the prophet Elijah. She finds herself time-traveling to 1942 in Poland. Where she finds herself in a house with Gitl and Shmuel. They both call her “Chaya”. Chaya is the name of her Aunt Eva’s dead friend who she will be named after. Gitl gets Hannah ready for Shmuel …show more content…
and Fayge’s wedding and that is when she meets Yitzchak the butcher and his two kids Reuven and Tzipporah, Rachel, Esther, Shifre, and Yente. As they approach the synagogue they find they are surrounded by Natzi trucks. Hannah tries to warn everyone they are in danger but no one believes her. When they get in the trucks it is unsterile, stuffy, and grimy. When they get out of the trucks the bad news that Rachel perished from suffocation in the trucks spreads quickly. They are then forced to strip down and change their clothes. Following this unfortunate event they get their heads shaved and received the numbers in their arm. This is when the man who tattoos Hannah’s arm reveals that the dress she is wearing was his daughter’s and that their names where the same. After being branded like cows with the numbers that are very important to telling who they are and where they come from they are given their bowls for a meal. This is unfortunately how Hannah and Gitl meet Rivka. Rivka stresses the importance of the bowls and rules in the camp. She befriends Hannah and Gitl and they give each other hope. Hannah tells stories to the women and young children in her barracks. She later hears there is a plan to escape and Shmuel, Yitzchak, and Gitl are in on the plan. Shmuel gets caught and is put in a firing squad. When the guards fire at the escapees Shmuel and Fayge say a prayer for their marriage and then are killed together and send to Lilith’s Cave. Lilith’s Cave is another term for the crematoria in the camp. No one who goes in the cave ever comes out. Later Rivka talks of her brother Wolfe who takes the bodies to the crematoria. He doesn’t believe she’s alive and she doesn’t know his whereabouts. Finally in the end of the book Rivka is chosen to go to Lilith’s Cave and Hannah and Sarah go together. Hannah gave her life to save Rivka and Rivka survives and changes her name to Eva. Gitl and Yitzchak survive and get married after the camp is liberated. They move to Israel where they live a long happy life. When Hannah’s “dream” is over Hannah and her Aunt Eva speak about the experience in the camp and that is when Aunt Eva reveals her name was Rivka and Wolfe is Grandpa WIll. In the movie the Devil’s Arithmetic Hannah is very hesitant to go to the Seder.
In the movie Hannah is chosen by her Aunt Eva to open the door to the prophet Elijah. When she walks into the house she finds herself in the presence of Rivka and Rivka’s mother. In the movie Rivka is Hannah’s cousin. Hannah is not called “Chaya” as in the book. She is called Hannah. Rivka takes Hannah into town for a picture and then they head off to get ready for the wedding. After Shmuel and Fayge are married they get put into the trucks by the Natzis and are forced to give up their valuable possessions. When they enter the camp they are forced to change into rags and get their heads shorn. Shmuel plans an escape and gets caught he is hanged but Fayge is not with him. A baby is born in the camp soon after and Rivka’s mother gets taken for protecting the mother and the baby after the commandant finds out. Hannah then decides she wants to have a Seder and makes the matsa from flour she bribed the gaurd for. Rivka tells Hannah that when she leaves the camp she will change her name to Rivka. Rivka then receives the picture they took in the village and tries to give it to Hannah. Rivka is chosen along with Sarah and Hannah gives her life for Rivka. Sarah and Hanah go to the gass chambers and gets showered with zyklon pellets. When she wakes up she talks to Aunt Eva about the picture of the two of them and the story comes
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There are many similarities and differences in the book Devil’s Arithmetic and the movie. One thing is for certain, the theme in both the book and the movie are the same.
First is the summary of the book and the movie. Hannah is a young Jewish girl. She was a brat and loathed going to family reunions because all her family talked about was the memory
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