“The reader” review
Youngmee Han
After I barely obtained the movie and watched it, I went a trip to Philadelphia with my kids. But this movie had not forgotten easily, I found me keep thinking about this movie. I wondered why Michael did not tell about Hannah’ illiteracy on trial. Because he respected her decision which she would choose life time sentence than reveal her illiteracy? Or because he was afraid of revealing their former relationship? Michael was very tormented by seeing Hannah on trial, and he went to see Hannah to the prison, but he came back not seeing her. Why did he that? I don’t know exactly, but simply I can guess.
Another thing I keep thinking is why Hannah committed suicide after 20 years in prison. Maybe she had a dream that she would meet Michael again and read and write for Michael. However, she knew that Michael was not that Michael anymore and he had no emotional feeling on her. Hannah had no reason to live without Michael.
Returning to my assignment, when someone is illiterate, he/she wants to hide it. Avoid any circumstances to read or write deliberately. When he/she happen to any chance to reveal illiteracy, he/she behaves violently or emotionally. Even though she is illiterate, Hannah always likes listening stories. Desire to write a letter to Michael makes Hannah learn to read and write. The process to learn to read is very touching to me. One day Hannah listened to the book that Michael read to her long time ago, she was surprised and happy. “The lady with a little dog’’- she listened to the story and then she counted the number of words, one, two, three, four.... she looked at the book and listened to the recorder. She finally found the word “the”, circled every “the” in the book, and then read the word “the”. When she read for the first time, her faced covered with surprise and happiness. I cannot forget her face with joy. The process Hannah learned to read is similar to that of a baby- listen a lot, match the sound and letter
=> I colored some of your discussions in pink as I agree with you. I guess you should have added summarizing sentence paragraph for your review, which might have strengthened your essay. Thank you, Ms. Han.
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