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.