The reader by bernhard schlink reviews trial#

In addition to the cruelty conducted decades ago, as time passes, the shame we all share mainlyД¬omes from the numbness to what had happened. Regarding what was the unspeakable mistake made in the past, and what damages it caused, and how it was still entangled with the present.

The reader by bernhard schlink reviews trial#

He admitted that вЂњI wanted her far away from me, so unattainable that she could continue as the mere memory she had become and remained all these years.вЂќ The trial gradually clarified issues

During the trial when HannaвЂ™s attorney attempted to get her probation, Michael wasД®dgy. Nevertheless, Michael never could get rid of the feeling that his denial of Hanna was his betrayal. Eventually, Hanna became a part of MichaelвЂ™s personal history, that he also needed to find excuse not But even Michael was so infatuated by Hanna, he couldnвЂ™t tell anyone about her. Then I had also learned to possessДЄnd throughout their relationship, Hanna never felt having a sexual relationship with an under aged boy 'For a long time I had abandoned myself to her and her power of possession. Means one possesses the other, and is possessed by the other. In the beginning, Michael felt hard to leave Hanna, then they became lovers. The shame comes from the acknowledgement of being unable to fix it, so the haunting past exists in the Inability suggests the mistake made in the past that by no means can be remedied. But let us read this novel from another angle: since HannaвЂ™s crime has nothing to do with her illiteracy, her Her/his flaw would feel extremely difficult to take any action to correct it. In The ReaderВ he gave reasons why Hanna never tried to learn reading and writing over the years before her sentence and imprisonment: For a person never admits Although quite a few reviews contend that HannaвЂ™s illiteracy implies the willful ignorance of the multitude about the cruelty of Nazi regime, Schlink does not think The Reader is a very straightforward and analytic novel.

Remember the plot was created by Schlink, and his goal of this novel was to look Hanna, what would he have done? Of course SchlinkвЂ™s answer was he did not know. In a talk organized by BBC, a young reader asked Bernhard Schlink that, under the same circumstance of