The Devils Arithmetic

Posted on 22 July 2018 by Jane Yolen

Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always But this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past Only she knows the horrors that await. Free Download Kindle ePUB The Devils Arithmetic By Jane Yolen – kino-fada.fr I wish I could say I liked this book I thought I would I know it s critically acclaimed and a well known story But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning of Chaya s story would have been long gone by 1942 by that time, all the Jews left alive in Poland were in ghettos, in concentration camps or in hiding Lublin, the place Chaya supposedly c I wish I could say I liked this book I thought I would I know it s critically acclaimed and a well known story But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning of Chaya s story would have been long gone by 1942 by that time, all the Jews left alive in Poland were in ghettos, in concentration camps or in hiding Lublin, the place Chaya supposedly came from, was ghettoized and in early 1942, most of its Jewish population was deported to Belzec and killed.The dialogue was overly didactic a common flaw in historical novels, especially those for children and too much was told rather than shown Further, the camp confused me Yolen says in the end that she created an amalgam fictional camp out of various aspects of real camps, but she used the trademark Auschwitz sign Arbeit Macht Frei I was con...This semester I am requiring my students to read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, a novel takes place in Poland during World War II The good news is that my students love the book in fact, several of them are reading ahead The shocking fact, the bad news, is what they don t know It is not just knowledge of history that they lack it is knowledge of basic geography God bless PowerPoint and blackboard To be fair, my students do ask intelligent questions, yet the lack of basic knowledge i This semester I am requiring my students to read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, a novel takes place in Poland during World War II The good news is that my students love the book in fact, several of them are reading ahead The shocking fact, the bad news, is what they don t know It is not just knowledge of history that they lack it is knowledge of basic geography God bless PowerPoint and blackboard To be fair, my students do ask intelligent questions, yet the lack of basic knowledge is shocking At times, I feel like I am teaching a culture and history course in addition to a reading skills course Now, I don t think it is the students fault I think the fault lies with the schools as well as parents and special interest groups Here s why The...I wasn t really sure what to make of this book when I first saw it, but after having read it, I would say that I am glad that I did This is one of those books that really makes you look at things from a different perspective I can relate to Hannah, because I remember being 13 and having little patience with traditions and customs, and just wanting to hang out with my friends But given the experience Hannah had, she was able to see things in a new way, and was granted a gift, even though it wa I wasn t really sure what to make of this book when I first saw it, but after having read it, I would say that I am glad that I did This is one of those books that really makes you look at things from a different perspective I can relate to Hannah, because I remember being 13 and having little patience with traditions and customs, and just wanting to hang out with my friends But given the experience Hannah had, she was able to see things in a new way, and was granted a gift, even though it was at a great cost, to be able to know and really understand her family s past and how they became who they are And because of this, she gains a newfound respect and admiration for them, and her own life, that she might not have otherwise known This is the lesson that this book taught me Yes, it was about th...This is a marvelous book for young adults, although I wouldn t recommend it as their first introduction to the holocaust because it portrays the atrocities committed in a starkly realistic way And, unlike some young adult books that I enjoyed as young as nine or ten years old, I wouldn t give this to kids until they were at least 12.It is a wonderful story and, because the main character, an American Jewish girl who s 12 years old, is from the present time even though the book was written twen This is a...Twelve year old Hannah is sick of spending Passover remembering the past with her relatives During the Passover Seder, she is transported to 1942 Poland, where she becomes Chaya her Hebrew name , the girl she was named for In this time, she is eventually sent to a concentration camp, where the bulk of the story takes place Throughout the book, s...Summary When Hannah opens the door during Passover Seder to symbolically welcome the profit Elijah, she suddenly finds herself in the unfamiliar world of a Polish village i the 1940 s Hannah had always complained about listening about listening to her relatives tell the same stories of the Holocaust over and over, but now she finds herself in terrifying situation The Nazi soldiers have come to take the villagers away, and Hannah can guess where they are going Response I loved this book Bei Summary When Hannah opens the door during Passover Seder to symbolically welcome the profit Elijah, she suddenly find...Yolen employs a Magic Tree House trope to move her main character, Hannah, a bored American thirteen year old at her family s Seder dinner, through time, space and language, and it comes off as hokey Once Hannah becomes Chaya, an orphan living in a Polish village in 1942, though, this tale grabs onto the reader and doesn t let go Hannah opens the door of her family s apartment to welcome the prophet Elijah and is soon crammed into a crowded cattle car with other Jews on a train destined for Yolen employs a Magic Tree House trope to move her main character, Hannah, a bored ...Anyone and everyone should read this book It s a very fast read because it was written for children but it tells a beautiful story and has a great twist in the end The Devil s Arithmetic is about a young Jewish girl who doesn t quite understand her family s past She finds Jewish holidays and celebrations to be boring and is unappreciative of the hardships Jews have faced She is mysteriously transported to the past and ends up in a concentration camp Here she suffers the hardships first hand Anyone and everyone should read this book It s a very fast read because it was written for children but it tells ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here This touching book uses time travel to help one young girl understand her Jewish heritage One of the main themes is not to forget the past but learn from it These memories include remembering the Holocaust.The book opens with Hannah being reminded why she celebrates Passover Passover isn t about eating, Hannah.It s about remembering p.4 Once Hannah is transported back into time and begins living the life of Chaya she reflects on the things she s learned at family dinners and in classr This touching book uses time travel to help one young girl understand her Jewish heritage One of the main themes is not to forget the past but learn from it These memories include remembering the Holocaust.The book opens with Hannah being reminded why she celebrates Passover Passover isn t about eating, Hannah.It s about remembering p.4 Once Hannah is transported back into time and begins living the life of Chaya she reflects on the things she s learned at family dinners and in classrooms She kept rememberingand , bits and pieces of her classroom discussions about the Holocaust About the death camps and the crematoria About the brutal Nazis and the six million dead JewsA strange awful taste rose in her mouth,bitter even than the Seder s bitter herbs And they were for remembering p 72 When she reaches the concentration camp, she s told she must remember her new identity You are Chaya no l...I usually read to avoid hearing about depressing subjects but I went ahead and read this one even though it was about a Jewish girl living during WW2.It was a good book, and I got choked up in the end Then I couldn t get to sleep at night because I was too busy pondering how civilized societies are capable of butchering millions of people It seems so impossible, and yet it s happenedthan once in history It makes you look at your friends and neighbors and wonder what sort of hearts of da I usually read to avoid hearing about depressing subjects but I went ahead and read this one even though it was about a Jewish girl living during WW2.It was a good book, and I got choked up in the end Then I couldn t get to sleep at night because I was too busy pondering how civilized societies are capable of butchering millions of people It seems so impossible, and yet it s happenedthan once in history It makes you look at your friends and neighbors and wonder what sort of hearts of darkness might be there.And it makes you wonder what might happen again in the future What would I...

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22 July 2018

Jane Yolen