Deportation

Torture

Starvation

Identity

Separation

Resistance Incineration

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Exposition

Bibliography

The Devil’s Arithmetic By: Jane Yolen

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Identity

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· Jews were forced to wear some kind of identification tag with a number on it so that the nazis knew who they were.

· In The Devil’s Arithmetic, when the Jews arrived at the camp, the nazis tattooed a number on all of the Jews arms. For example, Hannah's (the main character) number tattooed on her arm was, J197241.

· This picture shows a women with a identification tag hooked to her coat.

Starvation

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· In the book, the nazis would starve the Jews if they didn’t do the work that they were told to do. When they did feed them, it was barely enough to stay alive.

· For example, a Starving Jew in the book said, “without food, there is no life.” because the nazis wouldn’t feed them.

· This is a picture of a little boy, so skinny from being starved. And weak from working that he was very close to death.

Separation

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During the holocaust, children were separated from their parents, and lost with nobody to help them. For example, Whenever Hannah saw little kids separated from everybody with no parents, she did whatever she could to help them. This picture shows tons of Jews all mixed up and separated from their families.

Incineration

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When the nazi soldiers came, certain people would be chosen to be taken away to be killed. Usually the people who were chosen were elderly people, people who couldn’t get out of bed, or people with disabilities. These people were taken away to be incinerated, or burned to ashes. This picture shows the ovens that the Jews were burned in after they were killed.

Murder of the disabled

Resistance

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The resistance in this book was when Gitl was planning planning for her, Hannah, and her friends to escape from the concentration camp. Unfortunately, they didn’t make it out. This picture shows Jewish people trying to escape from a concentration camp with their stuff.

Deportation

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While everyone was at Shmuel’s wedding, soldiers came and told all of the Jews that they were being resettled, but they were actually being taken away to the camps. They were forced into little train cars without food, water, or space. People died, and families were separated. This picture shows Jews being forced into theses train cars.

Facts about concentration camps

Torture/Work

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The nazi soldiers in this book told the Jewish people that if they didn’t do what they were told, or if they didn’t work hard enough, they would get shot. Hannah always knew how they tortured the Jews because she remembered the stories from her old life. This picture shows Jews being forced to do labor in a concentration camp.

Exposition

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Who?- Hannah, Gitl, Shmuel, Fayge, Rivka, Aunt Eva, others from the concentration camp.

What?- Hannah was celebrating Passover with her family, and when she opened the door for the prophet Elijah, she opens the door to a polish village during the time of the holocaust.

When?- In her first life, in New Rochelle during the very late 1900’s. Then into the past in the 1940’s.

Where?- first in New Rochelle, America. Then back in time to a small Polish Village in Poland.

This picture shows Germans passing through a polish village.

Rising Action

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The main part of the rising action was when Hannah was celebrating Passover with her family when she opened the door for the prophet Elijah. When she opened the door, instead of seeing apartment doors, she saw a whole new world. Another big part of rising action is when the nazis took all the Jews to the camps. This picture shows a door opening to a different place, not other apartment doors.

Climax

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The main climax in this book is when Hannah enters the unfamiliar world of a polish town from the past back in the 1940’s. Not as much right when she got there, but when the nazi soldiers took away the Jews to the concentration camps. This is because when they get to the camp is when all of the events happen that change Hannah's life.

This is a picture of a concentration camp in Germany.

Falling Action

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The falling action in this book is after Hannah, Shmuel, Gitl, and Fayge tried to escape from the camp. Hannah knew that towards the end of her time at the camp, she would either live or die. But it ended up that Hannah and Gitl didn’t get caught for sneaking out. But the others did, and were killed. At that point in time, after she survived at the camp, she hoped that she would soon return home.

This picture shows Germans shooting, and killing Jews.

Resolution

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After the terrible time at the holocaust, Hannah finally returns home to her family. When she gets home, everybody is acting normal like nothing happened. They didn’t even know that Hannah was gone. The only person that knew what happened was her Aunt Eva, because she was Rivka(a person that Hannah met in the camp). They didn’t bother to tell anybody what happened, because nobody would believe them.

This is an apartment door, showing that Hannah went back home.

Bibliography

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Picture of book Germans in village

Identity Concentration Camp

Starvation Shooting Jews

Incineration Murder of the disabled

Deportation

Torture/work

Picture of Door

Resistance

Apartment door