The Reader

:MY age and Michaels are the same. HIs lover and his mother are almost the same. So I identified with him terribly and terrifically. Later I , too, became an attorney and struggled with the guilt of the citizen Germans who survived the Holocaust. The real tragedy of the book and of common folk in today's world is Illiteracy. I see many from Mexico who come the USA with 3 or fewer years of grade school and no more. In Mexico 4th grade is not free and is optional. Hanna in the Reader grew up during the Great War and got no literate education in Germany. She , as most do, hid her illiteracy well and then had to pay a price. Yet she is a rare human who taught herself to read with ''Audiobooks'' and died with the enjoyment of some classic literature. The literature came too late to help her understand her life and its miracles , as well as tragedies.

Schlink’s The Reader speaks to a reader’s nostalgia at the age that the protagonist Michael Berg is experiencing at that moment. A teenage-boy noticing every twitch made by the opposite sex relives the fantasies, and the emotional confusion so often plaguing a young man who is still figuring himself out in the world. What unifies these experiences is a fluidity only accomplished by an author who not only knows himself in his own writing, but bleeds passion in every word. Schlink, without a doubt, loved Michael is if he were his own son, and Hanna as if she were a long-distanced object of his own affection.

Michael berg should had raised the quistion about her literacy at the time of her trial because he was also a lawer and he can't let her go to the jail on verg of those other liar ladies who lied. and a lawer can't move ahead with the lie. If he didn't bother about her trial then why did he send the tapes.To test her literacy, then he should had gone to the higher court for her bail.... BUT the novel was realy touching....