Part 2

         This part was interesting as Michael was finally able to reverse the roles somewhat once he was able to escape the cycle of having sex with Hanna. Once he is able to leave her, Michael gets into a role where he is able to wield somewhat significant power in the way the he is making sure that absolutely everybody knows about the atrocious crimes that Hitler committed, no matter how horrible. He even states that he does not know why he is going around trying to make these crimes so apparent even though they are so horrible, but it makes sense that he is trying to fight back and take control of something, even if it is something as petty as this. But then this attempt to fight back is crushed when he runs into Hannah again during the trials, which shows an interesting example of how he was able to successfully suppress his feelings about the “atrocities” that she committed and it is almost parallel to the fact that society is aware of what happened during the holocaust, yet they become somewhat numbed by the horror. Also, it might be interpreted that Michael is compensating for not being able to tell people about Hannah by trying to reveal everything wrong that everybody else did as if it makes him feel better for revealing this horrible truths to the world and making sure that those who committed them are being punished properly. Yet there is an interesting theme of indifference in how no matter how much he seems to be trying to hide of reveal, he is just gaining a sense of numbness, to the feelings that he had and is having towards Hannah and the atrocities that he is revealing and learning about with the Nazi reign. I find it interesting, but not much more than other books we read.