In the fifth chapter, Michael thinks about visiting Hanna again. When she recognises this, Michael runs out of the house and walks slowly home.Ĭhapter 5: “If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing-then why not the satisfaction and the act itself?”
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Michael is waiting in the hallway while Hanna is in the kitchen, the door is open a crack. When he wants to go, she asks him to wait, because she also had to go and wanted to go with him. Michael describes the apartment Hanna is living in and what it looked like back then.Ĭhapter 4: “As she was reaching for the other stocking, she paused, turned towards the door, and looked straight at me.” In the fourth chapter, Michael is still with Hanna. She irons on the kitchen table when Michael tells of his illness. In the third chapter, Michael visits Hanna to thank her. He describes it as it is today, as it was when he was fifteen years old, as he looked at it whe he was a little boy and as he sees it in his dreams.Ĭhapter 3: “If I see her in my mind’s eye as she was then, she doesn’t have a face at all, and I have to reconstruct it.” Michael describes Hanna’s house in Bahnhofstrasse. The doctor, who is there right away, diagnoses him with jaundice.Ĭhapter 2: “I had been aware of this building since I was a little boy. When he begins to cry, she asks where he lives and brings him home. She washes him and cleans the sidewalk with. In the first chapter of the novel, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Michael throws up on the way home.
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Please use the links below to jump to the other parts or just scroll down… Part Two Part Three First part of The ReaderĬhapter 1: “I was fifteen, I got hepatitis.”
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