Devil's Arithmetic
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- Yitzchak
- the butcher
- Chaya
- was sick and lives with her Aunt Gitl and Uncle Shmuel
- Chaya means
- life
- badchan
- entertainer
- Aunt Eva
- never been married; lives with brother and his wife
- 3rd Person Limited
- point of view of The Devil's Arithmetic
- Grandpa Will
- only one in his family to survive the concentration camps
- Seder
- Jewish ritual feast
- Fayge
- engaged to Shmuel
- Simile
- compare two unlike things using like or as
- Hannah
- lives in New Rochelle;has a brother named Aaron
- Gitl
- not married;
- round characters
- Hannah, Chaya
- Historical Fiction
- genre of The Devil's Arithmetic
- Viosk
- Chaya lives
- foreshadowe
- hints clues about the future
- shadchan
- matchmaker
- Shmuel
- engaged to Fayge