Jane Yolen:Alan Gratz:
Hannah had taken a ballpoint pen and written a string of numbers on the inside of her own left arm, hard enough to almost break the skin. She had thought that it might please Grandpa Will as much as the new baby had. For a moment, he'd stared at her uncomprehendingly. Then suddenly he'd grabbed at her, screaming in Yiddish Malach ha-mavis over and over, his face gray and horrible. Everyone at the party had watched them. It had taken her father and Aunt Eva a long, long time to calm him down.

Even though they tried to explain to her what had upset Grandpa Will so, Hannah had never quite forgiven him. It took two days of hard scrubbing before the pen marks were gone. She still occasionally dreamed of his distorted face and the guttural screams. Strangely, though she’d never dared ask what the words meant, in her dreams she seemed to know. No one had ever volunteered to tell her. It was as if they’d all forgotten the incident, but Hannah had not.

–The Devil’s Arithmetic,
Jane Yolen

Read the excerpts. How does Gratz write about the idea of surviving Nazi camps differently than Yolen does?

He focuses on how survivors handle less stressful situations.
He suggests that it is impossible for survivors to fully recover.
He highlights how some children took on new roles in the family.
He criticizes survivors’ descendants for not trying harder to understand survivors.