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“The Devil’s Arithmetic” uses the compelling literary device of casting the
main character into a parallel universe. Explore the use of this device in
terms of purpose. In what ways could
this fictional experience actually prevent history from repeating?
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those who did not watch the video, watch the following video about the
concentration camps and then answer the following question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449ZOWbUkf0
—Is
the Auschwitz camp shown on the short clip similar to the one you pictured in
your mind? How was Hitler able to build
such a camp during the Great Depression?
You may have to do a bit of research.
In "The Devil's Arithmetic", Hannah was brought into the past time of Poland, and had to experience Auschwitz herself. She knew the things that were to occur, because of her being in the present, but for her to go through it, changed her perspective dramatically. The ways that this fictional experience could actually prevent history from repeating itself is to respect any history, culture, religion, etc. Since Hannah was a "typical teenager", she didn't want to do Passover, which is a Jewish holiday that her aunt hosted, that was a Holocaust survivor. She didn't do the reading when asked, and honestly didn't want to be there. When she was hit with the past, she probably realized that if she respected the religion, she wouldn't be in this "dream". All it takes is just one person, to hate a culture, religion, race etc. and make a whole country hate them, and soon enough, annihilate them.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about the purpose of having Hannah going through a parallel universe being about perspective. She changed her point of view about her religion because she saw first hand what her ancestors had to go through.
DeleteI agree that her prier knowledge did help her understand what was going on in the film but we also have to remember that she did not know specific details due to her apathetic point of view while she was in the present time. What about the camps and Hitler?
DeleteI agree with the statement Sydney said. I also believe her visions had an effect as well.
DeleteThe movie "The Devil's Arithmetic" was a "typical Teenager" that didn't care about anything but herself. She goes to a past-over dinner with her family that was Jewish. Hannah has no clue what her ancestors went through in the Holocaust. In the movie she goes back in time to when the Nazis took over Poland and they take all the Jews to Auschwitz. The way I pictured Auschwitz was a huge camp that had different building and the buildings were just for killing. In the movie it didn't show all the buildings. I did see when the Jews were giving hang which I thought could happen in the camps. I also so thought about the bad conditions which I saw in the movie. Hitler made the Jews build the camps. They were basically building the Jews worse nightmare. Unfortunately they didn't know what they were building and a lot of the Jew could've ran away before the Nazis got them.
ReplyDeleteI think that movie didn't have multiple buildings in it because it was a small movie set, after all they only had 10 acres to shoot the movie on. I don't think that the Jews could have run away even if they knew what the building were because they were transported in cars and immediately thrown in camps. The camp was in the middle of nowhere so they couldn't have gone anywhere.
DeleteIt is actually called pass-over.Though I agree with you that Hannah cared for no one but herself. I also agree with you on that the setting of the movie for the camp wasn't well done. And since many of the Jews who just got there were strong and able bodied many of them could have escaped from this camp. There wasn't many guards and that showed another error. This is because the Jews in real life were more closely guarded than this.
DeleteMaking the main character, Hannah, be taken into a parallel universe was intentional to covey the purpose. I think that they whole point of doing this was to give Hannah a different perspective, and show her what the camps were like. I'm thinking that it is kind of like the "take a walk in my shoes" type of thing. She was finally able to understand what her ancestors had to go through and why she should respect them. Hannah could have stopped part of history from repeating by taking what her family members said to help the Jews during that time. She actually did try to tell them, but couldn't help that much because she didn't fully listen to them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was "take a walk in my shoes" because she took the place of her ancestors in this. Also, that is true that she could have taken what she learned to help the Jews. I like your explanation.
Deletei agree with your post because if she had listened, she could have avoided the camps, but now she can use her experiences to stop it form happening again.
DeleteAssuming Hannah survived the Holocaust, she can talk about the experiences she went through. Hannah could become a public speaker who talks about the horrors of the concentration camps and show people exactly how horrible they were. By doing this she will prevent anything like the Holocaust happening because everyone would know what the outcome would be. In the video only the ruins of the barracks were showed so I had to look up what the barracks looked like. Based on previous knowledge I gained in class and from many videos I've watched, I already knew what to expect when I saw what Auschwitz looked like. One thing I did not expect were the nice looking buildings at the entrance of Auschwitz. Were they there to deceive anyone who passed by? Were they where the Nazi soldiers and commandants stayed? Hitler was able to build the concentration camps because he gained the support of thousands through their discouraged spirit caused by the Great Depression. He made promises and people were desperate enough to follow anyone as long as they got out of the depression.
ReplyDeleteI like that way you used prior knowledge to answer the question. I also like that you put what Hannah could do if she was a holocaust survivor. I liked that you put the nice looking building because I didn't caught that.
DeleteThe additions of your own questions is interesting. I don't think I've thought of them before. Can you elaborate on how the thousands of supporters helped Hitler?
DeleteThe movie's main character, Hannah was taken into a parallel universe to teach not only Hannah about the Holocaust but also us as well. Hannah didn't really care much about what happened in these camps until she actaully got to live through these camps. Hannah saw what happened and learned how important it was to learn about the Holocaust so that we can prevent something similiar to this from happening again. Hannah could talk about the horrible experiences she experienced at the camp and peeople would be able to see what happens in a Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about how we should never let something like that happen again and how Hannah learned from her experience. i think that you need to add a few more details.
DeleteI think you need to add a few more details. I agree with your statement about how we shouldn't let something like that happen again
DeleteI think you should add more details and evidence but I agree with your overall statement.
DeleteThe main character of the Devil's Arithmetic is a teenage girl named Hannah. She doesn't care for anyone but herself and she can't even begin to understand what people went through during the Holocaust. She gets thrown into a paralle world after she arrives at the pass-over dinner. In this world she takes on the life of her previous ancestor. Hannah experiences the Holocaust, she remembers with each day how much she wishes that she hadn't taken things for granted in the real world. This fictional experience can prevent history from repeating because we are actually seeing a represenative of people freom the modern world, Hannah, go through the Holocaust. Seeing what she is going thorugh, along with the other Jews allowsyou to see the pain and brutality they suffered. Seeing something like that is heart-wrenching an dtruly frightening. It rattled even me, I asked myself again and again a question I often ask myself, how can people be so cruel and o these things like that to one another? Our own emotions cause us to think about other people more deeply. It is truly different than just reading about the Holocaust or seeing pictures about the Holocaust. You can feel something but the connection is not as deep as when you see someone go through it. Which is why this fictional experience can keep history from repeating.
ReplyDeletethe parallel universe in the devils arismatic is used to make some one, Hannah and the audience, go through the holocaust. this literary device is used to show us through the eyes of one of us, the true horrors of the holocaust. by showing us the horrors of the holocaust through the eyes of some one we can relate to, it can make us relies that is this happens again, this pain will happen to others, and we need to never let this happen again.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the literary device used to show the true horrors off the Holocasut. I like your explanation of how after seeing what the Holocaust was like that we most likely won't let this ever happen again.
DeleteI agree that using a character in which we relate to can help us to connect more deeply with what they go through. Using Hannah allows teenagers that may not even begin to understand the Holocaust understand it and want to do something about this experience. We would want to make sure that something like this never happened again.
DeleteI believe the fictional representation could possibly stop history from reapeating itself by appealing to the viewers emotions. As they can relate to Hannah's initial apathetic attitude. So as Hannah goes through her traumatic experience, the viewers can better put themselves in her shoes. The camps shown in the video are similar to what I imagined them to be. They are large and have a cold air around them. I believe Hitler was able to build such camps through appeasement, The allied powers gave Hitler many resources in hopes that his rampage would cease, only for that plan to backfire.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that the fictional representation appeals to the viewers emotions.I like how you include background information of how Hitler got his resources.
DeleteI really like your explanation. By Hannah being put in her ancestors shoes, we can only imagine what she felt like. Also the background knowledge that you put behind Hitler on how he was able to make the camps support the fact that the Allies knew, and didn't help which would leave to the "backfire".
DeleteIn "The Devil Arithmetic" Hannah is sent to the past during the holocaust in Poland. From her experience she realized how important and terrible it was for people during that time. By this fictional experience this can prevent history because it will one give factual details to how painful the camps are. It will also show how dictators are the worst government to have and should never be brought up. In the video the way Auschwitz look now was totally different from what I was thinking. I thought it will look more broken down, and beaten up. During the great depression Hitler build his camps in secret and really didn't want to use them till the right time. This was his way of saying Jews should be imprisoned.
ReplyDeleteI like that you referred to the type of government established during the Holocaust because we can see how the type of government impacted events in that country.
DeleteI agree, she needed to relies how aufal it was for the people in the camps
DeleteI agree with your opinion on how you think this can prevent history.
Delete"The Devil's Arithmetic" shows Hannah's apathetic attitude towards the Holocost, that is until she is mysteriously placed in the past where she experiences the Holocost herself. When returning home she seems much more grateful for what she has and has a new respect for history. I don't believe that the message is to not repeat history but to pay more attention so that we know what to do and how to do it when or if it does occur again. The camp Auschwitz, that Hitler ran as a concentration camp from 1941 to 1945, was actually built near a Jewish community in Poland and used in 1940 as a prison for political prisoners until 1941 when it first exterminated prisoners and soon Jews. Since the camp already held political prisoners that were considered dangerous to the Nazis occupying Poland made it easy to transform it into a concentration camp, especially when Hitler was able to convince most of Germany citizens to think of the Jews as an enemy.
ReplyDeleteI like that you said that the point of this movie was to know what to do in a situation that would be similar to the Holocaust and not to necessarily say that it won’t happen again. In the world today, we know that people have a lot of morals and beliefs that aren’t right. We also know that we can’t prevent catostrophic events from happening but we do know how to handle them based on events that have already happened.
DeleteI agree with most of the things you said. I liked how you stated the date and explane what you were thinking.
DeleteIn "The Devil's Arithmetic" the premise of Hannah going through a portal into a parallel universe is a metaphor for how her view of her heritage and life contrasts so drastically to the Jews of 1941 that had to experience the events so she naturally neglects. the fictional aspect of it being a parallel universe also expresses how it would be a world she wouldn't have familiarity with which helps the theme of the story. A way this could've prevented history form happening would be if Hannah had payed attention to what her family was telling her in the present that she ignored, she would've had the opportunity to change it in the past.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your interpretation of the meaning behind Hannah travelling through a portal and how it could be a metaphor for how she needed to feel what it was like to live as a Jew during the Holocaust to fully understand and apppreciate it as the tragedy that it is.
DeleteI agree with your interpretation of the meaning behind Hannah travelling through a portal and how it could be a metaphor for how she needed to feel what it was like to live as a Jew during the Holocaust to fully understand and apppreciate it as the tragedy that it is.
DeleteI agree with your interpretation but I agree with Bree. I think she needed to see and experience what her ancestors went through. She needed to experience the pain and tragedy so she can fully understand what it was to be a jew.
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ReplyDeleteIn "The Devil's Arithmetic", Hannah goes through a portal which sends her into a parallel universe. She is shown the difference the her everyday world and the world her ancestors had to go through. This shows Hannah, as well as the audience some of the terrifying things that happened during the holocaust. This is telling us to not let history repeat itself.
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