Is it possible that The Reader which is a romance, is an extremely sick, and twisted love story? The Reader is about a fifteen-year-old boy who falls in love with a thirty-six-year-old woman, and vice versa. What the main idea of the book and movie is about is up for debate. An argument can be made that the story is more about the negative impact of illiteracy on someone’s life, than it’s about a romantic love story, and it wouldn’t be a false notion. In the broad scheme of things, The Reader is more about a case of submission, and dominance that absolutely ruins a person’s whole entire life. We’ve seen this happen similarly in another story except it’s acknowledged. Fifty Shades of Grey is about a guy named Christian Grey who is extremely
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At one point in the story Hanna leaves Michael unexpectedly, and in the book, we get more insight to his thoughts during the period without her. He ends up getting married, but only for a small period of time, and it’s clear through the book his mind is absolutely ruined. In Part 2 of the book, Michael talks about life after she left him. He describes his college life to be enjoyable, and easy but he admits to having an “arrogant superiority”. On page eighty-nine he talks about his ruined romantic feelings. While at University, he makes love with a former girl he went to school with, Sophia, and she realized he wasn’t interested in her, and asked what’s wrong with him. He then describes that feelings of affection bring a lump to his throat even if not directed towards him. At the bottom of page eighty-nine it says, “This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me”. Callousness is a cruel disregard for others, and feelings of insensitivity or “numbness”, which he talks about feeling in the book. Michael is unable to get over his first love, and continues his life with an unnatural physiological, biological, and psychological approach to love. He lives the rest of his life with these horrific feelings, and none of this would have happened if he didn’t go through the experience of being a
At one point in the story Hanna leaves Michael unexpectedly, and in the book, we get more insight to his thoughts during the period without her. He ends up getting married, but only for a small period of time, and it’s clear through the book his mind is absolutely ruined. In Part 2 of the book, Michael talks about life after she left him. He describes his college life to be enjoyable, and easy but he admits to having an “arrogant superiority”. On page eighty-nine he talks about his ruined romantic feelings. While at University, he makes love with a former girl he went to school with, Sophia, and she realized he wasn’t interested in her, and asked what’s wrong with him. He then describes that feelings of affection bring a lump to his throat even if not directed towards him. At the bottom of page eighty-nine it says, “This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me”. Callousness is a cruel disregard for others, and feelings of insensitivity or “numbness”, which he talks about feeling in the book. Michael is unable to get over his first love, and continues his life with an unnatural physiological, biological, and psychological approach to love. He lives the rest of his life with these horrific feelings, and none of this would have happened if he didn’t go through the experience of being a