
Note the situations in which it determines the course of her life. Hanna's secret is a crucial element for plot development in The Reader.The short stories pursue this theme further in other contexts. Stories, titled Flights of Love, was published in English in 2002 By the way, a collection of seven of Schlink's short The questions below, and while you read the novel jot down some notes and Interview about Schlink's family background )Please read through With what the previous generation did." ( ). ? The Reader is one of the firstīooks, I think, that addresses how the generation that came after deals Other, we all had to confront it not as a theoretical abstract, but as a Teachers, the one who taught me English, taught me to love the English language,Īlso taught us gymnastics and we could see his SS tattoo. Issue, because it pits fathers against their children. To develop this theme on a personal level. The influence of parents and other role models who were shaped by Nazism,Ĭan turn into responsibility and guilt. The question is: Can the "children" incur guiltĪnyway? This novel uses a love story to show how childish innocence, under War (Schlink himself was born in 1944), and thus can hardly have beenĪware of any of the crimes the generations of their parents and grandparents Children born after the mid-1930s were under 10 at the end of the Novel (it is a work of fiction, although it does have autobiographicalĮlements) as a reading for this course because it powerfully evokes howĬaught up in the guilt of the Nazi era "the generation that came after"
