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The Devil's Arithmetic Movie Vs Book

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One of the things people hate is to compare movies to books because they are too different from each other, or too similar and boring. Sometimes they are both too alike, and too different. The Devil's arithmetic is a great example when it comes to show the differences and similarities of a book, and a movie. If we didn't compare them then it would be easy to mix both of them up on what happened in the movie, and what happened in the book. In both the book, and the movie Hannah, who is tired of remembering her heritage, gets transported into the past during the time of the holocaust. In the book The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, the author of the book, has Hannah meet Grace, and Shmuel first. They then go into a wedding where they are captured by the Nazis. In the movie The Devil's Arithmetic which was made after the book in 1999, has Hannah meet Rivka first who is Hannah´s cousin, and her friend. After they were captured in the book Hannah meets Rivka who tells her how to survive the camp. Then in the end of both the book, and the movie Hannah takes Rivka's place to die then she is brought back to her normal world. The biggest similarity between the book, and the movie is the theme. The theme in both the book, and the …show more content…

A huge difference between the two is that Hannah is old enough to drive in the movie, but in the book she is only thirteen years old. This change makes her a little more bossy with her personality. One of the biggest changes is that in the movie Grace is not a character, but in the book she has a strong influence on Hannah. There are also only two people that are Hannah's age in the movie, but in the book Hannah meets four people that are her age. One major thing the movie changed is that Hannah starts to have a love life with another person. In the when Hannah returns to her normal world she wakes up in a bed, but in the book when she returns she is standing and closing the

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