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Too Many Rules! Everywhere you go, there are rules, such as no kicking or hitting. What do you think about that? Think of those rules to the extreme.......life or death kind of rules. In the book is the __Devil's Arithmetic__ its subject is the Holocaust. The Holocaust has those extreme rules. Although the camp rules and Rivka's rules are usually different, they both help you to survive. Even better for the prisoners, the rules keep them in order. Gives them boundaries. One set of rules is better than the other.

Some people that tell the rules for the camp are the commandant, the three fingered lady, and the tattooist. They say rules like no escaping and learn the work schnell. One of the big ones are never answer back, complain or question. Also, the one that is the most annoying is do or die, or no longer a name. The intent of that is to make them suffer and to deprive them of dignity or everything. Also, to kill them. What is smart is to keep them healthy enough to work, but it is still horrible and cruel.

The next set of rules is from Rivka. A lot of her rules say to keep you identity because the camp tries to take their identity away. Another one is to stay away from Greek Jews. Those jews don't know their language so they react slower. They are most likely to be "chosen". One more big one is to stay away from the hospital. They will do experiments on you that are unnecessary. <range type="comment" id="373931">The intents of those are to keep you alive, in order, and to keep you from being chosen.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><range type="comment" id="80183">It's great to have rules, but sometimes they're over done. That's when it usually goes to to the extreme. In the book The Devil's Arithmetic, there are <range type="comment" id="198955">rules that are over done and ones that could save your life. <range type="comment" id="670711">Wishes for the best to Chaya and every other. prisoner.