This week I watched the Devil's Arithmetic. This movie is about a girl named Hannah Stern who at the begining dosent really care that much about the culture of her family. When she goes to celebrate the passover season, she goes over to her Aunt Evas to celebrate. When its time to open the door to Elija, her aunt decides to have Hannah go and open the door. When she goes to open the door she goes back in time to when her aunt was her age, as her cousin, Hannah. When she gets there her family is thinking that she really is Evas cousin Hannah, and that she just woke up from having a terrible fever for two weeks. When things start to settle down a bit with her, Rifca (Eva) decides to get her dressed to take her out to show her around and then take her to a wedding.
When they get to the wedding, the bride and groom just got married when the Nazis come to take everyone away. When they get to the camps Hannah starts relizing whats going on and that she shouldve paid more attention to the stories her family tried to tell her. When everyone starts feeling down, Rifca has Hannah tell stories about what will happen in the future when they survive and what they will eat and she even told them the story of the wizard of oz.
One day while they are working Rifca starts getting sick and starts coughing really loudly. When they were about to take her away, Hannah takes her scarf to make herself look like Rifca so instead of taking her they took Hannah. When they put them into the gas chamber you probably know that they got killed. When Hannah dies in the dream she wakes up back at her aunt Evas house because she drank to much wine at the party. Then she started talking to her aunt and now she understands how terrible it was living back then and how good of a friend Hannah was back then.
I thought that this movie was really good. I watched it last year durring english when we were studying the Holocaust and watching it a second time was really good.
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Well done!