Hanna's rage stems from a lifetime of shame and concealment.Įven stronger evidence emerges at the trial. The frustration comes from not just the inability to handle everyday tasks, but also from treatment as a dolt who just won't make the effort.
One of the characteristics of dyslexics is often a pent-up rage from the years of frustration. In almost the next instant, she becomes contrite and says, "Read me something, kid." She hits him across the face with her leather belt, splitting his lip. "How could you go just like that?" she rages in the book. She has obviously hidden the note or thrown it away. When he returns, the note is missing and Hanna is "trembling with rage and white-faced." She thinks he has abandoned her. He leaves a note telling her what he is doing. While Hanna sleeps, the doting Michael goes out to bring back breakfast and a rose for her. The first big clue comes when Hanna and Michael go on a bicycle trip into the country.
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In the immediate postwar period, during which the story takes place, the disability was little recognized.īut the narration is full of clues, which my students instantly picked up on - and found tremendously moving - without any coaching from me. In Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel and the current film based on it, the word dyslexic is never used. She can't get enough of these complex tomes. He's reading Kant, Hegel "War and Peace" and literary heavyweights such as Schiller and Eichendorff. He's not just reading comic books or murder mysteries. That is why Hanna is so receptive when Michael ("kid," as she calls him) reads to her.
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