The Devil's Arithmetic Chapter 14 - Elaborate on a Quote & Know the Language
choose one of the following passages from chapter fourteen to write about. Explain how
the quote that you choose is relevant to Chaya and those like her who were part of the
Holocaust. You may write your response as prose or as poetry.
• If you are alive now, this minute, it is enough. (page 11:21
It is a brutal arithmetic. (page 123)
This is the Devil's place. (page 113)
As long as we can remember, all those gone before us are alive inside us. (par 12)
We count our luck with a different measure here in the camp.

Is this personification? "i have played the fox,now i must play the cat of the fable"

Read this excerpt from "ain't i a woman? " by sojoumer truth in which three sentences does she make an emotional appeal to the audience by talking about her personal hardships? well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. {i think that 'twixt the negroes of the south and the women at the north, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.} but what's all this here talking about? {that man over there says that women need to be into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. nobody ever me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place} and ain't i a woman? look at me! look at my arm! {i have ploughed and planted, and gathered into bars, and no man could head me! } and ain't i a woman? i could work as much and eat as much as a man - when i could get it - and bear the lash as well! and ain't i a woman? {i have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when i cried out with my mother's grief, none but jesus heard me! } and ain't i a woman? {then they talk about this thing in the head, what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect") that's it, honey.} what's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? if my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?