We are all inevitably involved in this larger problem. But it is, I think, also relevant more generally to the way in which human beings get ensnared incrementally into the evils of their society. What About the Children? The Reader is a profound exposition of the 'second generation' issues concerning moral guilt for the Holocaust. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.more Themes of the reader by bernhard schlink trial#When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. In time she becomes his lover-then she inexplicably disappears. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover-then she Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
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