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THE READER
The verb to read is a key word of the movie, and you can understand it just reading the title: The Reader.
The reader is a person who reads or can read, it can refer to a woman or a man: reading is not only for men or woman, everybody should read.
The female character of the film is Hanna, a woman who can not read and makes people read for her.
She loves listening people who read for her, even if she can not do it by herself.
Literacy plays a fundamental role in the movie: it is the background of the story.
Hanna makes people read for her when she is an SS and Michael reads for her too when they have a close relationship.
People think that she is not a good person because she takes someone and go away with them (in concentration camps), but she makes just them read for her.
She is sentenced to have killed 300 people in a church because the other people charged say that she did it alone and wrote the report of the fact. She is an illiterate person and so she has to stay in prison because of her being.
Sometimes if a person can read she can survive in his society; everybody could read: it is very important!
Ignorance causes destruction!
When a person can read and reads often, reading becomes a drug: you can not stop reading; a page, another page, and your eyes do not want to look at something else that is not an article, and adverb, a verb, and adjective or a noun.
Reading is a trip in a new world, the world of literature!
A very important theme of the movie is also travelling, as a matter of fact the female protagonist goes to a concentration camp and to prison, and at the same time she listens to Michael when he reads Odyssey and she learns to write just listening Michael's recording.
Odyssey is the travel novel par excellence!