Sunday, April 6, 2014

Hernán Prieto Reaction 3

I continued to read the novel "The Reader" I found myself in a peculiar place. Over the first two parts of the novel my emotions were clear as to the character of Hanna. She was a woman who was clearly taking advantage of a minor, not only physically but also mentally. Mentally as in when Michael when he found out that Hanna had left or as he said abandoned her life and completely disappeared this created a series of events that lead to his mental instability (throwing up, not eating) when this occurred I as the reader felt relief, and in a sense figured that Michael was no longer going to be affected by him. The sense of disgust towards her was slowly fading, until we found out that she was a nazi, it was when her trial began to go down hill (as expected), she was sentenced to jail and then ends up committing suicide, and also we find out that she was illiterate that's when my emotions are changed, although very little, although contradicting, I did find myself feeling bad for her. And the situation she was in. 
When I finished the novel, I couldn't understand if I liked the novel or if I didn't but it was interesting and in a sense it did help in an insightful way.

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