The book, The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen has 170 pages. It is about a girl named Hannah and she is attending her family's Seder. When she is chosen to open the door for the prophet Elijah, it is like she is transported back in time to 1941, the time of the Holocaust. She is living in a village with some people named Gilt and Shmuel. They are at Shmuel's wedding when suddenly the Nazi come and take them away. Soon, Hannah finds out how life was for her Aunt Eva and Grandpa Will in the concentration camps. An important setting to the book is that concentration camp.
The concentration camp was an important setting to the book. Many things would be different without this setting. One thing is that Grandpa Will and Aunt Eva wouldn't have the numbers written on their arms. Also they wouldn't have memories of what awful things that happened in the concentration camps. Hannah wouldn't of have known what it was like in the concentration camps either. Finally, tons of Jews that were in the concentration camps wouldn't have been killed. That is why the concentration camp is an important setting to the book.
hannah is really changed by the end of the book!
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