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If you have ever read a book and watched its movie then you would probably have seen the differences and similarities they had to each other. I'm going to explain the differences and similarities about Jane Yolen's book The Devil's Arithmetic. In this essay I will be explaining to you how the book and movie are the same and very different to each other.

In the book its a story about a young girl named Hannah who hates to show up to her ewish holidays. She gets annoyed at how her family is always talking about the camps and the horror they had and she tries to ignore it because she thinks its so boring to hear about it. She tries to just not think about what they are saying but then again she had to because there was nothing else to do.

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