![]() ![]() This is a routine for them until August when she suddenly disappears leaving no address behind. Michael regularly comes to her after school and she makes him read out to her from various books that he brings. Her name is Hanna Schmidt and she worked as a conductor in a tram. Next week he comes back this time she seduces him and they become lovers. When she notices him watching her undress she is annoyed but before she can react, he runs away. From where Michael is, he can see her through an open door. She did not expect him to visit, but lets him wait while she changes her clothes. Michael is sick for many months with hepatitis but when he recovers, he goes with some flowers to thank the woman who helped him. A strange woman comes to help him, cleans him up and helps him get home. One October afternoon, fifteen year old Michael is sick on his way home. The story narrated by the protagonist Michael Berg is an account of a relationship he had with an older woman when he was a very young man and the long term emotional and psychological effects it had on him. The story is set in post Germany somewhere between the late 1950s and the mid ‘90s. Summary – Analysis of ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink The book was made into a film which won an Oscar award for the best female actress. It has been translated into several languages and it is now prescribed for study in colleges as Holocaust literature. The Reader met with an enthusiastic response both in Germany and in other countries. As perpetrators and victims alike die and living memory becomes hazy, many questions do not find ready answers. Books like The Reader helps the next generation come to terms with the past and understand their parents’ generation better. The story which has many autobiographical elements deals with the problems the second generation had with understanding the Holocaust and also in handling second hand guilt which was very real. The English version was released in the US in 1997. Characters – Analysis of ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard SchlinkĪnalysis of ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink – ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink was a novel published in Germany in 1995.Analysis of ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink.Summary – Analysis of ‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink.
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