Wesley Groves Post #3

The relationship between Hanna and Michael is very interesting.  Many different factors from their relationship caused the novel to develop in a certain way.  Mainly, the factors that I focused on were the age difference and the perspective of the novel.
An obvious, upfront abnormality in their relationship was the age difference of the two.  Not even that necessarily, because although the age gap was large it was only strange because of Michaels age. had he been, say 5 years older it would not have been as weird.  But this young 15 year old boy was quick to fall for the first woman he ever had feelings for (easily mistaken for love, as he had never felt it before)  Had Michael been older, things would have been different.  He would not have fallen in love with her, and he most likely would have based their relationship off of personality and not the fact that this is the only woman who has ever slept with him.  An older Michael would have not been pushed around by Hanna and would have seen her for who she is.
This leads to the other interesting thing about the novel.  To me at least, the novel seemed to focus on Hanna a lot more than Michael.  Since Michael is the narrator, that creates a curtain of mystery we will never see behind.  While we see how she can be viewed by others, we are never allowed into Hanna's head.  We do not get to see her side of things, and never get to see her motives.  This only helps to make her actions and past even more intriguing, at least to me.