
It is affordable education that can save people from the damnation of the poverty trap. Being trapped for their whole lives, people become desperate and decide to commit crimes, just like Hanna. They cannot get a promotion to higher-paying positions and cannot find a good job due to a lack of education and necessary skills.

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon t. In real life, many people in economic hardship are forever stuck in poverty with their families. Read 11,469 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Hannah’s lack of grammar indirectly tells readers that she grew up and lived in poverty. Written by Bernhard Schlink (and translated to English by Carol Janeway), The Reader is a beautiful coming-of-age story of Michael Berg and his romantic. It is poverty, to be more precise, the poverty trap. This website about the novel, The Reader, written by Bernhard Schlink, was published during a project work in a German class. There is another thing that Hanna’s illiteracy symbolizes. Those who learn and love to read know the nature of things and actions, and Michael is a prime example of it he is a law student. The main focus of Bernhard Schlinks novel is that of guilt with a focus on the guilt of the post war generation in Germany in face of the atrocities committed.

It can be said that here the author claims that literacy and education affect a person’s understanding of good and evil. The fact that she is illiterate could have mitigated her sentence for the war crimes she committed, but it would hurt her pride, and she would be ashamed of herself. How strong must the fear of being exposed as illiterate be for one to admit to having committed mass murder Bernhard Schlink explores the question in his. The motion picture, The Reader, based on Bernhard Schlinks book of the same name, treats adaptation to life on several levels. Learn More Literacy and the Nature of Things and ActionsĪt some point in the story, readers and the protagonist, Michael, learn that Hanna is illiterate.
