Devil's Arithmetic: Comparing The Book And Movie

In the movie and book there are many differences and similarities. Reading the book before helped me and the class to understand them both more thoroughly. The book and the movie both help you to understand what it was like back then in the olden days when the jews were being forced to do whatever and they were pushed around constantly.
Both the book and the movie have great story lines. Both of the stories are somewhat alike and somewhat different. The movie helped you feel like you were actually there and the book helped you understand why they were there and what was happening in that timeframe. The book title is the Devil's Arithmetic and so is the movie. The movie was made on march 28, 1999 and the book was published in november of 1998. Some of the similarities in the book and the movie were some very great tragedies. For instance nearly all the villagers or most of them faced great tragedies through either getting shot for not working …show more content…
For instance in the story hannah is a very young and mindless little 12 year old, and in the movie she is 17 and more understanding and knows what to do in a troubling situation. Also in the movie a young lover boy likes hannah and wants to help her escape the concentration camp, but in the book she is too young to have a boyfriend. Another difference would be when she is opening the door for elijah in the book she sees a man in a field singing and approaching her, but in the movie she goes right into a hallway. In the book the people always called her chaya but in the movie they never called her chaya they kept it at hannah. Also in the movie the jews in the concentration camp have a passover for rivka after her mother died to calm her nerves, but in the book they do not have the second passover, and rivka does not even have a mom in the book. Also in the movie hannah's job was to dig up the rocks and in the story her job was to carry water and serve food to the