*Chs. 10-12

*Allusion Activity debrief

*What do you make of the reading aloud?

*Hanna’s POV

*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”).

*Debrief

*Was this easy or hard? Why?

*What did you learn from the attempt?

*The relationship

*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?

*Development of Metaphors and

Themes

*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

*Rhetorical Questions

*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