Keri's reaction to Part One

 The novel "The Reader", by Bernhard Schlink, is basically a detailed account of the sex lives of two star crossed lovers. Society frowns upon their being together because of the age difference of twenty one years. This should be frowned upon. A fifteen year old teenaged boy does not have the life experience nor the emotional faculties to handle a thirty six year old woman. This is shown in this novel. They have several misunderstandings. Honestly, their relationship creeps me out and scares me at the same time. When he goes so far into detail, I almost want to stop reading entirely. Some of the things they do are not even characteristic of what people the same age would do in one of those relationships. For example, when Mchael returns to Hanna to make up for staring at her while she undressed, she basically molests him. The only difference between this and molestation is that he consents to it. This does not make it any less weird. I felt uncomfortable whilst reading the sex scenes between Hanna and Michael. I would imagine others felt the same way. 
When Michael went on the second stop car just to be with her and she ignored him, I could tell that she was doing it on purpose even though she told him otherwise after the fact. She was probably afraid to appear with him in an intimate way in front of the general public. Later on when they fought about it, she claimed that it was his fault and that he was ignoring her. This was obviously not the case and I think even she knew this. Both people were subconsciously aware of what was going on at the time. Hanna just did not want to blame herself.
One last thing that I'd like to bring up is the fact that Hanna is satisfied by a fifteen year old. This makes no sense to me. It does not match up in my head why Hanna could do this to a young person. It takes away innocence and ultimately has altered Michael's life. It is just convoluted and weird. 
Overall, I have certainly never read a novel like this one in that it addresses a topic that is not really given the light of day in reality. Reading this was disturbing. I really hope that reading part two will not entail such graphic scenes.