Part Two

The style of writing has changed tremendously from the first part to the next. While the writing still has great merit to it, I liked the first part much better. It is not that the author just fails to include any detail in part two, there is still great detail, its just that the subject matter is much more mundane. Nevertheless, I do like how the author chose to shift the way in which the story was being seen. Before, the reader received a first hand account of the relationship: you were able to see things almost as if they were happening in the moment and you were there. Now, the story feels like its being told by an outsider. I feel much more distant from the characters than I did before.
I can't say I'm all too shocked the author chose to have Hanna be involved with the Nazi's, but I'm not  completely unsurprised either. I'm not too sure I like how the trial is going, I wish the author would have chosen to play it out in a different way. Nevertheless, the way Hanna almost incriminates herself does show how the legal system is not about telling the truth anywhere: it is about saying what you must to save yourself. I find it upsetting how the other defendants chose to lie about what occurred (or so it seems) and leave Hanna to take the blame as she is the only one to tell the truth. I did very much like when the girl who wrote the novel being used as evidence talks about how Hanna had girls read to her. It was slightly strange at first but it was also slightly endearing to think that she was trying to fill some void within her.