![]() Embarrassed after she catches him watching her getting dressed, he runs away, but he returns days later. He visits Hanna to thank her for her help and realizes he is attracted to her. He spends the next three months absent from school battling hepatitis. After 15-year-old Michael becomes ill on his way home, 36-year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz notices him, cleans him up, and sees him safely home. Part I begins in a West German city in 1958. Each part takes place in a different time period in the past. The story is told in three parts by the main character, Michael Berg. She lives in New York City when Michael visits her near the end of the story, still suffering from the loss of her own family. ![]() The daughter of a Jewish woman who wrote the book about the death march from Auschwitz.A psychoanalyst he sees, tells him he should consider his mother's effect on him more, since she barely figures in his retelling of his life. Michael has fond memories of her pampering him as a child, which his relationship with Hanna reawakens. By the time Michael is narrating the story, his father is dead. He is emotionally stiff and does not easily express his emotions to Michael or his three siblings, which exacerbates the difficulties Hanna creates for Michael. He is very formal and requires his children to make appointments to see him. During the Nazi era he lost his job for giving a lecture on Spinoza and had to support himself and his family by writing hiking guidebooks. Michael's father, a philosophy professor who specializes in Kant and Hegel.When he begins his friendship with her, is when he begins to "betray" Hanna by denying her relationship with him and by cutting short his time with Hanna to be with Sophie and his other friends. She is almost the first person whom he tells about Hanna. Sophie, a friend of Michael's when he is in school, and whom he probably has a crush on. ![]() She takes a dominant position in their relationship. She is 36, illiterate and working as a tram conductor in Neustadt when she first meets 15-year-old Michael.
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