The READER 朗读者 心得.doc

??A Book Report of The Reader By Guo Shudan ,10Foreign Trade, NO.33 I have recently read a novel named The Reader, published Yilin Press. This novel is written by a German jurist and writer Bernhard Schlink, who was born in Germany in 1944. Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. His most famous book The Reader is an internationally best-selling novel ,which was an Oprahs Book Club selection. Briefly, The Reader is a story about love, morality, humanity，shame, guilt and the gap between Germanys per-war and postwar generations. It explores how the post-war generations should approach the generation that took part in, or witnessed, the atrocities. These are the questions at the heart of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses die and living memory fades. The story starts in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from famous books. Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. Hanna s crime as a defendant in a trail related to Germanys Nazi past is uncovered. As Hannas past is revealed, Michael realizes that Hanan is keeping a secret, which she believes is worse than her Nazi past, that is she cant read or write. At last, Michael doesnt say anything to testify for Hanna, and Hanna i