Hannah gets the privilege to open the door for the prophet elijah. When Hannah opens the door she is transported back in time to 1942. Hannah then has to live through the harshness of the concentration camps, like her grandpa and aunt did. Hannah figures out that she is living the life of her aunt Eva’s friend that passed away at the camps. She also gets to see her grandpa and aunt at the camp.
Have you ever changed after something you have been through? In the book, The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, Hannah changed when she realized what the holocaust was about. At the beginning of the story, Hannah and her family were going to celebrate the Passover, a Jewish holiday. Since Hannah didn’t want to go, she started whining and being snotting saying that it wasn’t important. Throughout the book, Hannah's character changes how she feels toward any Jewish holiday.
However, it is not only Hannah that goes through this. At the opening of the historical fiction novel, Hannah is recalled as a self-centered, insulting person and a rascal. With the trouble some brother that she has, Hannah is unwilling about going to the Seder. The Seder is a family gathering feast that the Jewish families went to.
Joel, the love of Hannah’s life found interest in another girl at school. Because they are not talking anymore, Hannah decides to stop coming to school for a few weeks. Knowing that he was the only person she cared for, he left her questionable and weak. The break up between them to brought Hannah to a very dark place. At this very moment Hannah felt that everyone was against her.
What this means is that Hannah knows that she is alive and now knows how the “devil plays” with her mind. The manipulation has not tricked her and this is a point in which she can find light because her
Based on what I have read in The Witch of Blackbird pond and Identity, these two stories approach the same theme which is being an outcast or not being the same as other people around them. This is because in Identity, it states, "I'd rather be unseen, and if /shunned by everyone/ than to be a pleasant-smelling flower/ growing in clusters in the fertile valley,/where they are praised, handled, and plucked by greedy, human hands," (stanza 15-18). These stanzas tell that they aren't the same as other people around them so they use plants as a metaphor. This is because it would make it easier to understand in this poem. For example, in Identity, it states, "I'd rather smell of a musty, green stench/ than of sweet, fragrant lilac," (stanzas 19-20).
After all the events near the end of the story Hannah skips town,ordinarily do with people believing she 's a witch. Throughout all my reading I found my favorite part. It was on page 97 In this event Kit meet Hannah the Witch by the Blackbird pond, it was during her time in need too.
The combination of the girls dancing in the woods, which is against the Puritan religion, and the endless amounts of conspiracies pioneered a gossip that filled the town. The town’s ultimate verdict was that the devil had turned the girls into witches, igniting a panic that consumed the villagers until twenty people were tried and
He states that you coldly prompted your daughter to cry witchery upon George Jacobs that is now in jail.” (Danforth 182). This shows that someone thinks that the girls did perform witch craft and now that there is an accusation against them, the whole village will know what someone saw. The girl’s reputation is going to be ruined by the accusation made against them, and now they have to do anything to prove that they are innocent. Anyone will do anything to protect their reputation.
Due to her religion she was restricted. “As a matter of fact, she's catholic…, As if it matters!... , My father will not let me talk to a goy.” Because Hannah is not used to the rules from this time, she is starting to get annoyed that her and a human being can not be friends based on their religion. Hannah believes everyone is equal and they deserve the right to be friends with everyone.
Abigail Williams and her friends were caught dancing in the forest, and words of witchcraft began to go around. In order to save themselves, they went around and falsely accused nineteen men and women of making deals with the devil and practicing witchcraft. In some instances, accusations were made on behalf of fear. The girls feared what would become of them, or what could happen to them. Abigail, in a sense, was their "leader", and anything she began to say or do, the other girls would follow along.
Hannah has chosen to isolate herself from society and neglect her surroundings. This ignorance allows her to separate herself from the normalities someone of her age would live with, leaving a life revolving solely around piano. She disregards her friends and family, which portrays her level of ignorance. Furthermore, as Hannah progresses through her youth, she begins to realize all the things she misses due to the way she lives. As she becomes more aware of this, an urge builds up inside of her to “break [her] promise to Tante Rose” (4).
Hannah was a very hard worker and by working night and day she became very good at playing the piano. Hannahs talent was shown in the story when it was said that “[she] was playing the music of Beethoven and Liszt with proficiency’’(1). Therefore all these statements show that Hannah was a very devoted ignorant and hard working girl at the start of the
Hannah had family that went through the holocaust, but never knew what it was like to experience the same pain and misery that they went through. Hannah as a young girl at home never really cared as she was very self-centered. “You have to remember how much family means to them. Grandma lost both her parent to the Nazis before her and her brother managed to escape, and grandpa…….. Will lost everyone but your Aunt Eva.
In the beginning, Mary and her friends danced in the woods, but they are caught by Reverend Parris, and afraid they will get in trouble, two of the girls pretend to be afflicted by a witch. The two seemingly afflicted girls send widespread chaos through the town, and the remaining girls have to figure out what to do to get the attention away from their dance in the woods. Mary is understandably terrified as she is a rule follower and has never broken a rule in her life. Mary knows that “the whole country's talkin witchcraft!” (Miller 1107).
