* Allusion Activity debrief
* What do you make of the reading aloud?
* Begin by brainstorming a list of everything you know about Hanna up to this point (through end of Ch. 12). Go back and look through the text to figure out what you actually know. * Choose a moment in the novel and spend 5 minutes writing that moment from Hanna’s perspective. Write in the first person (“I”).
* Was this easy or hard? Why? * What did you learn from the attempt?
* What is unhealthy about this relationship? Use quotations to support your ideas. * Chart the progression of the relationship. * How do Hanna and the narrator view this relationship, and what is accurate or inaccurate about their views?
* Begin to collect ideas and support related to the following themes…. * Openness (also nakedness) and Secrecy * Intimacy and Abuse * Moral law/conscience Consider the metaphors Schlink uses to represent the relationship. Discuss why these particular metaphors and what they represent
* Schlink’s use of rhetorical questions (for an example see page 27, p.37) * Using the handout, identify which types of rhetorical questions he is using and decide what the effect is