Show "You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me." The Devil's Arithmetic is a 1988 Historical Fiction novel by Jane Yolen about a teenaged Jewish girl named Hannah Stern, who is transported through time to a 1942 (1941 in the film adaptation) German concentration camp in occupied Poland as Chaya/Chana Abramowicz. Hannah goes from being disrespectful of Jewish beliefs to realizing the importance of remembering after seeing the horrors of the time. It was adapted into a Made-for-TV Movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy in 1999. The movie was produced by Dustin Hoffman, who gives an introduction on the subject matter. This novel provides examples of:
What happened in Chapter 8 of Devil's Arithmetic?The procession resumes, and Hannah's new friends dance by the side of the wagon, singing the “Sherele,” a wedding song with incongruously gloomy words. Fayge tells Hannah that she has always hated the “Sherele” and promises that at the wedding itself they will sing and dance to other, more fitting songs all night long.
What does GITL tell Hannah to wear to the wedding?What does Gitl tell Hannah to wear to the wedding and how does Hannah feel about it? She tells Hannah to wear the blue sailor-suit dress she wore as a child to Shmuel's Bar Mitzvah. Hannah says its a rag and feels it is suitable for a Halloween party.
Who comes to visit them the morning of the wedding and what does he bring?Who comes to visit them the morning of the wedding and what does he bring? Yitzchak, the red-headed butcher, and his two children come to help; he brings two cages of chickens for wedding presents.
What happened in Chapter 7 of the Devil's Arithmetic?In Chapter 7, as the wedding party walks and goes by wagon through the woods toward the village of Viosk, Hannah tells the other girls many stories, one after the other, most of which are compressed versions of movies she has seen.
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