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A 6 page essay that contrasts and compares Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Lawrence Thornton's Imagining Argentina. The writer argues that both authors address the function of memory and imagination in regards to the creation of political knowledge and moral responsibility. No additional sources cited.
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address how individuals face brutality. Schlink connects a developing moral sense with the knowledge that is derived through the written word, which informs the reader of the perceptions of a
wide world. Thornton, on the other hand, uses knowledge that is derived from imagination. However, in both cases, knowledge proves to be the element that best counteracts violence. Essentially,
The Reader is a novel of memory. Michael Berg, who serves as the novels narrator, offers a series of detailed recollections Berg recounts how, when he was fifteen-years-old, he fell
ill on the street from an attack of hepatitis and was aided by an older woman named Hanna. When he recovers and goes back to thank her for her kindness,
Hannah offers herself to him sexually in a straightforward, matter of fact sort of way. Despite the fact that Hannah is more than twice Bergs age, the two have an
affair. Hanna reveals practically nothing about her past to Berg. All he knows is that she works as a streetcar conductor. Schlink makes it clear that their affair can
continue as long as it remains closed from Bergs friends and family. While their meetings revolved around sex, Hannah begins to request that Berg read to her. Hannah appears to
envy and admire Bergs easy access to books and appears to be hungry for the information that he can impart. One day, for no apparent reason, Hannah leaves her job
and abruptly vanishes. In the next section of the book, several years have past and Berg is surprised to discover that Hannah is among the defendants in a trial
of former concentration camp guards. It appears that Hannah was a guard at Auschwitz and at a smaller camp near Cracow during World War II. Even more grotesque, she was
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