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Hanna was really exhausted from being alone. She needs others to accompany, amuse and fill her daily life with new atmosphere that she never found before.
Before she met Michael, Hanna had also filled her loneliness and dependence in the Nazi’s camp with the chosen one prisoner who she used as a
reader for reading some stories or books for her. But that was totally different as what she had done when she met and needed Michael. The person in the camp is
just for her own personal reader but Michael is not only Hanna’s reader but also the chosen one who touches her deep heart.
“Yes, she had favorites, always one of the young ones who was weak and delicate, and she took them under her wing and made sure that they didn’t
have to work, got them better barracks space and took care of them and fed them better, and in the evenings she had them brought to her. And the girls
were never allowed to say what she did with them in the evening, and we assumed she was…also because they all ended up on the transports, as if
she had had her fun with them and then had got bored. But it wasn’t like that at all, and one day one of them finally talked, and we learned that the
girls read aloud to her, after evening after evening” p. 115.
4.1.3.3 Narrow-minded
She is narrow-minded; she doesn’t want to hear what others opinion are and always want to win the power of game. Michael becomes the only person who
understands Hanna’s problem on this characteristic. Every time they fought and argued, she doesn’t want to hear Michael’s reason for doing that or this. She
always thought that her opinion is the right one and doesn’t want to hear Michael’s opinion.
“I had never seen her sarcastic before. She shook her head. “How should I know why you’re going to Schwetzingen? How should I know why you
choose not to know me? It’s your business, not mine. Would you leave me now?”” p. 47.
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Hanna’s character of being difficult to hear others opinion makes her really a narrow-minded person. “…she was absolutely single-minded, whether in
agreement or disagreement” p. 71. Everything that she wants to be, it must be going in that way as she wants Michael following her heart moods. Thus, Hanna
always shows her hard side and bad-tempered personality when facing something. She wants everything in her track and all the things that revolve around her must
be in her mind. “”I’m sorry, Hanna. Everything went wrong. I didn’t mean to upset you,
but it looks….” “It looks? You think it looks like you upset me. And will you please go, finally?”” p. 48.
The fact that Hanna is single and narrow minded seize her to be a bad- tempered person. She is really a bad-tempered person when the things are not in
the way she is thinking about. Hanna always faces something with angry face and mood. She wants everything perfect and Michael or others cannot stop her from
doing or deciding something. When Michael does the wrong thing she reacts with anger directly and it must always be Michael’s fault.
“How could you go just like that?” I put down the breakfast tray with the rose on it and wanted to take her in my arms. Don’t touch me.” She was
holding the narrow leather belt that she wore around her dress; she took a step backwards and hit me across the face with it. My lip split and I tasted
blood. It didn’t hurt. I was horrorstruck. She swung again” p. 54 - 55.
4.1.3.4 Egoistic
