Michael feels guilty for not having gone over to speak to her and so he goes to her apartment but finds that she has upped and left without saying a word. She doesn't wave and when he looks again she has gone. One afternoon he looks up and sees Hanna on the other side of the pool. He enjoys her company and enjoys being with his friends at the local swimming pool where the kids congregate. In the Fall, Michael goes back to school, where he makes more friends and is moderately attracted to a classmate called Sophie. They both greatly enjoy the trip and it seems to increase their addiction to each other even more. He maps out their route, prepares their bicycles and makes all the plans. Hungry to spend more time together, Michael tells his parents he is taking a short trip with a friend during the summer vacation, but he is actually going on a trip with Hanna. She also loves Michael to read aloud to her which he does every day. She shares with him only the bare facts of her life her name is Hanna, she is a conductor on the street car and she lives alone. From that day Michael goes to her every day. Seeing each other naked they are drawn inexplicably to each other. When Michael returns, he helps her by bringing coal up to the apartment but is so covered in dirt from it that she runs him a bath. The woman is busy with errands but Michael finds himself strangely attracted to her and runs out of the apartment like a child. He has hepatitis and is sick for some time, but when he is feeling better his mother dispatches him to the woman's apartment so that he can thank her properly. Going home from school one afternoon, he began to feel nauseous and vomited violently all over himself a woman sees him and brings him into her apartment to clean him up before he goes home. Michael begins the novel by telling the reader that as a fifteen-year-old boy he became involved with a woman in her mid-thirties, and that he has remained infatuated with her memory ever since. Michael Berg is a German who has grown up very aware of what was perpetrated by the Nazis during the Third Reich, and like many young men his age feels anger and shame which he directs mostly at his parents' and grandparents' generation for sitting by and enabling it to happen. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. It got me thinking about the guards from World War Two.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. This book was a straightforward read, meaning that I took almost no time to finish it compared to other books. The story is loosely based on one of the female guards in Auschwitz. When Hanna was about to be released with parole after spending 18 years in prison, she and Michael had to meet again, because she had no other friends. Michael was immensely proud of her but felt too guilty to write back. Through his help, Hanna learned to read and, eventually, write. Not only did Michael ruin life for Hanna, but Michael also drained his own life! Never did he find comfort in anything.Įight years into Hanna's incarceration, Michael started sending her packages of tapes and a tape machine. That let Hanna down because if he spoke, she would face a lot less time in prison. Michael had a chance to speak up, which he didn't use. She could not read nor write! She could not be in charge of that case. Especially after he understood that Hanna was not guilty. Hanna went to prison for life because of this event. She was said to have written a report on a church that went on fire and killed 300 Jewish prisoners. That is where Michael saw Hanna as one of the convicted people - the guards. For gaining experience, their group went to court to see how the actual process went. He has a seminar about war criminals while studying law. The next time Michael sees her happens in court. But there they were until Hanna left Michael and the city. Michael and Hanna could not possibly love each other - the society does not accept it for obvious reasons. On many accounts, this relationship was not right. Hanna worked as a conductor on a bus, and Michael was a student. They have this affair for quite a long time - many months before Hanna disappears. A 15-year-old boy called Michael Berg meets and starts an affair with a 36-year-old woman Hanna Schmitz. The events of the book are not much different from the plot of the movie. As you can remember, I did a review about the movie version of The Reader (press to read) with Kate Winslet in it. Although it has 200 pages, you can read it in less than 2 hours without getting tired. The book was written by Bernhard Schlink in 1997. The Reader, or Der Vorleser in German, is the kind of book that can keep you hooked until the last page, until the last word.
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