reaction part 2

             In part two, we learn more about Hanna, and why she acts funny around books, and especially notes.  We learn that Hanna is an illiterate Nazi, and she chose her job because she didn’t want to reveal the fact that she was illiterate.  To me, this seems more a move of cowardice than anything else.  Rather than face her worst nightmare, which is easily fixed by learning how to read, she chooses to join up with the worst group of people ever.  She seems, from eyewitness accounts, to have a fascination and sort of love for the sick/weak children in the camp who are soon to be killed.  I attribute this to the reason she took interest in Michael.  She has some sort of love for those who are lesser in some way, and found Michael at a time when he was very weak.  From the story it was very hard to tell whether she was truly preying on the children, or attempting to comfort them before their eventual death.  I think this part was left blurry for a reason.  The eyewitnesses seem to think she was evil, and preyed on the weak for personal enjoyment, while Michael has a totally different view of Hanna within his memories, but memories tend to be much more positive and happy than reality, (positivity effect).  His clear mixed emotions about Hanna’s sentence lead me to believe that his experience with Hanna was both uplifting and traumatizing.  I think his happy memories are covering the truth of what happened between the two of them.  I feel that his guilt for loving Hanna is more about her past, which was unknown to him at the time.  If he knew that she was a Nazi guard that let a bunch of women and children burn to death in a church, he would have thought twice before going back to her house the second time.