The Reader
Bernhard Schlink’s book The Reader leads the reader on the subjects of blame, victimization, justice, identity and memory. This novel skilfully shows the relationship between the dark history and the current state of Germany symbolically with the romantic entanglement of Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz. Hanna was Michael’s lover and later on in the book, becomes a defendant in a war-crime trial. The trial is the main focus in the book; the reader views the novel as a crime story that parallels with Hanna, signifying the Nazi-past as the defendant, and Michael embodies the second generation that evaluates the Nazi-past in the current time as the interrogator. The third character in the novel plays an important role, who is the Jewish …show more content…
He later goes to her to thank her and as a 15-year-old young boy becomes mesmerized when she puts on her stockings. Within a week after visiting Hanna, Michael and Hanna start a sexual relationship. When the meeting begins, Hanna gives Michael coal scuttles and sends him to the basement to get some coal. The pile of coal falls on him and covers him with black ash from his head to toes. Schlink uses this event as a representation to show the guilt that looms Michael, at this point, which is contrasted with a meticulous and industrious Hanna. In Part One of The Reader, it proposes that symbolically Hanna’s illiteracy signifies her moral unawareness. This remark is supported when Michael was first affected by Hanna when watching her put on stockings he felt as though that she had taken him into her, and does anything to please her thus becomes ignorant to the world outside. This state of unconsciousness and lack of reflecting of what he is doing parallels with his desire to surrender to the Hanna. Hanna’s seduction of Michael lures him into her tainted and corrupted past. With Michael’s moral virtue restricted by their affiliation with each other, he starts to read to her at her request several German novels and …show more content…
After her passing, Michael realizes that she had read an academic writing about the death camps, and an expansive scope of literature of Nazi’s casualties. Shortly before Hanna’s suicide, disclose to Michael that nobody can censure her, only those who have died can deal with this. Hanna gullibly endeavours to attempts to free herself from the past by leaving an inheritance to the only living survivor of the fire at the time of her passing. The reason behind her is death is not given, but rather the most evident conclusion appears that she conquered her illiteracy, and became morally aware. Getting a handle for the first time the extent and scope of her inclusion during the Third Reich, and she became unable to live. The significant part is that she left money for the Jewish daughter, who had survived the bombing of the church. The daughter, nonetheless, declines to take the cash from Michael, even to utilize it for a reason connected with the Holocaust, because this would allow Hanna remission, which she was not ready to give to
Bernhard Schlink’s book The Reader leads the reader on the subjects of blame, victimization, justice, identity and memory. This novel skilfully shows the relationship between the dark history and the current state of Germany symbolically with the romantic entanglement of Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz. Hanna was Michael’s lover and later on in the book, becomes a defendant in a war-crime trial. The trial is the main focus in the book; the reader views the novel as a crime story that parallels with Hanna, signifying the Nazi-past as the defendant, and Michael embodies the second generation that evaluates the Nazi-past in the current time as the interrogator. The third character in the novel plays an important role, who is the Jewish …show more content…
He later goes to her to thank her and as a 15-year-old young boy becomes mesmerized when she puts on her stockings. Within a week after visiting Hanna, Michael and Hanna start a sexual relationship. When the meeting begins, Hanna gives Michael coal scuttles and sends him to the basement to get some coal. The pile of coal falls on him and covers him with black ash from his head to toes. Schlink uses this event as a representation to show the guilt that looms Michael, at this point, which is contrasted with a meticulous and industrious Hanna. In Part One of The Reader, it proposes that symbolically Hanna’s illiteracy signifies her moral unawareness. This remark is supported when Michael was first affected by Hanna when watching her put on stockings he felt as though that she had taken him into her, and does anything to please her thus becomes ignorant to the world outside. This state of unconsciousness and lack of reflecting of what he is doing parallels with his desire to surrender to the Hanna. Hanna’s seduction of Michael lures him into her tainted and corrupted past. With Michael’s moral virtue restricted by their affiliation with each other, he starts to read to her at her request several German novels and …show more content…
After her passing, Michael realizes that she had read an academic writing about the death camps, and an expansive scope of literature of Nazi’s casualties. Shortly before Hanna’s suicide, disclose to Michael that nobody can censure her, only those who have died can deal with this. Hanna gullibly endeavours to attempts to free herself from the past by leaving an inheritance to the only living survivor of the fire at the time of her passing. The reason behind her is death is not given, but rather the most evident conclusion appears that she conquered her illiteracy, and became morally aware. Getting a handle for the first time the extent and scope of her inclusion during the Third Reich, and she became unable to live. The significant part is that she left money for the Jewish daughter, who had survived the bombing of the church. The daughter, nonetheless, declines to take the cash from Michael, even to utilize it for a reason connected with the Holocaust, because this would allow Hanna remission, which she was not ready to give to