Jane Yolen The Devil's Arithmetic

In our history there are some excellent leaders, but there are also terrible monsters. During World War 2 there was a monster who was always thinking about arithmetic. ¨The arithmetic, the numbers. You add, you subtract, and there are no more Jews.¨ And there was one person who captivated us with her words, Jane Yolen. Which was later made into a movie, directed by Donna Deitch. NEED A THESIS STATEMENT The book and the movie are very much the same an immense amount of ways. The book,The Devil's Arithmetic, written by Jane Yolen and published 1988. It revolves around a girl by the name of Hannah Stern. A young jewish girl who is taught the importance of the Holocaust. When she is transported to Poland in 1942, where she is sent to a Natzi consentration camp. After opening the door for the profit Eleigha at her Grandparents Seder. The movie, The Devil's Arithmetic, directed by Donna Deitch and released 1999. The images it shows makes us really feel the hardships of what they faced in the concentration camps. And it really focused on the time spent in the camps with the brutality of the guards, also with the persecution of the

The theme of the book and the movie. The history, family, sacrifice, humanity, hope, identity, and to never forget and always remember. Most of the same characters are seen in both. Such as Hannah, Rivka, Aunt Eva, and the couple Fagie and Shmuel. There were many other characters seen in both, but those were really the main characters. The settings stayed the same in both as well. Such as the Fagie and Shmuel's wedding day. Another is getting shipped off to the camps, and unfortunately the gas chamber. And how Hannah lifted all the other prisoners up when she was telling them stories about the future. The epilogue stays the same by ending with Hannah and Aunt Eva talking about how she was called Rivka in the camps and what her tattoo on her arm