The Devil's Arithmetic Analysis

The Devil’s Arithmetic is a book about a girl named Hannah Stern who finds herself thrown back to 1942, during the holocaust. She learns what it was like when her aunt and grandfather, as they too were in the camps. If you want to teach children about humanity’s single greatest atrocity, then The Devil’s Arithmetic is the best book for you to teach.

The book The Devil’s Arithmetic, published in 1988 by Jane Yolen, a jewish author, begins when Hannah Stern, a jewish girl and her family are driving to passover to celebrate with their relatives. Hannah speaks to her family that she’s tired of remembering. When they get to her relative’s apartment, her Grandpa Will is shouting angrily at the TV, because it is showing a news broadcast on the holocaust, in which he and his sister, Aunt Eva, were part of. Later, at passover, they read the seder. Then Aaron, Hannah’s younger brother, says that Hannah should open the door for the prophet Elijah. When she opens the door, she finds she is no longer in her

In both genres, Hannah still goes back in time and experiences life in the camps. Aunt Eva is still the same person. The theme in both is about remembering what had happened. Jane Yolen and the director of the film are both jewish. They both want us to remember that the atrocity of the holocaust was real and something that should be studied so we will not make the mistake of prosecuting a person because of their religion again.

The two genres of Devil’s Arithmetic are very different. Several of the characters, such as Gitl, Yitzchak and his children, and Fayge weren’t in the film. Well Fayge was, she just had a different name. Grandpa Will’s name was also changed to Uncle Abe. The angel of death is mentioned in the book, but not in the film. The wedding ceremony occurred in the film, but not the film. In the book, Hannah wakes up as they enter the gas chambers. In the film, it shows them die in the