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The reader by bernhard schlink writing
The reader by bernhard schlink writing









the reader by bernhard schlink writing

The novel has to be seen from different perspectives, because throughout the novel, the context changes, and as the context changes so do Hanna and Michael and their relationship.īernhard Schlink’s novel introduces various themes, such as love, age difference, loss, guilt and illiteracy, The Reader follows the affair between 15-year-old Michael and 37-year-old Hannah. The class discussions helped a great deal, thus it helped me see the notion of guilt and its meaning in the work. In part 3 it became clear to me that the relationship had driven the whole novel. I still had the thought in the back of my head about how the relationship in the novel would develop. In part two we also got to know that Hanna was illiterate, this plays a big role in the novel. We tried to recapture the scene of the trial, which helped us picture and understand the situation more. Our teacher chose a student, and sat her on a chair, back faced towards the rest of the class. During part two of the novel we mostly discussed the trial. Many in the group found the novel was a bit peculiar because of the relationship between Michael and Hanna, but later on we discussed how the characters are and what our impressions were. In part one, we discussed what our impression was on the novel. In class we began to deal with each part for itself. As I kept reading, I became more interested in how their relationship developed, and how it was affected by Hanna through her war crimes. In the beginning of the book, I was open-minded in order to see how the relationship between a young boy and an older woman could develop. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink read in class.











The reader by bernhard schlink writing