In Bernard Schlink 's novel, The Reader, the story centers around a middle-aged women named Hanna, who is at trial for being part of the SS unit at the Nazi 's concentration camp in Auschwitz. She is accused of allowing 300 Jewish women to parish while being stuck in a burning church. During her trial it becomes apparent that Hanna is illiterate and can 't defend herself properly. She is embarrassed at the fact that she is illiterate and does not want to let anyone know of her inability. This story helps bring back memories too when I was in 1st grade and had trouble reading. Remembering the fact that all my classmates could read perfectly and were a head of me made me feel very embarrassed and inferior. This story reflects not just on myself
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The two shortly begin a sexual relationship with one another. Soon Michael is off to law school and attends a trial in which Hanna is being accused of being an SS guard at the Nazi 's Auschwitz concentration camp. During the trial in becomes apparent that Hanna is illiterate and can 't really read what the actual claims against her are. She doesn 't seem to want to admit her illiteracy because she is too embarrassed. Hanna is hurting herself more than she is helping herself because admitting her illiteracy would have saved her from a life sentence. As Michael stated "she couldn 't read the daughter 's book or the indictment, couldn 't see the openings that would allow her to build her defense, and thus could not prepare herself accordingly?" Bernard Schlink ,The …show more content…
Hanna represents a hope in which everyone can look up too. She puts her best effort and struggle into learned how to read and write, and she succeeded. It doesn 't matter if you aren 't good at something, its not about how you start off its about but rather how you finish. There were many times I just wanted to give up and just let things stay as they were. But I overcame that and said to myself that I want to succeed no matter what. I worked hard and struggled but the feeling of success when its all over is one of the greatest feelings I 've experienced. If we can take one thing out of this book its that it doesn 't matter how low you start, but rather how
The two shortly begin a sexual relationship with one another. Soon Michael is off to law school and attends a trial in which Hanna is being accused of being an SS guard at the Nazi 's Auschwitz concentration camp. During the trial in becomes apparent that Hanna is illiterate and can 't really read what the actual claims against her are. She doesn 't seem to want to admit her illiteracy because she is too embarrassed. Hanna is hurting herself more than she is helping herself because admitting her illiteracy would have saved her from a life sentence. As Michael stated "she couldn 't read the daughter 's book or the indictment, couldn 't see the openings that would allow her to build her defense, and thus could not prepare herself accordingly?" Bernard Schlink ,The …show more content…
Hanna represents a hope in which everyone can look up too. She puts her best effort and struggle into learned how to read and write, and she succeeded. It doesn 't matter if you aren 't good at something, its not about how you start off its about but rather how you finish. There were many times I just wanted to give up and just let things stay as they were. But I overcame that and said to myself that I want to succeed no matter what. I worked hard and struggled but the feeling of success when its all over is one of the greatest feelings I 've experienced. If we can take one thing out of this book its that it doesn 't matter how low you start, but rather how