When the "kid" and Hanna were in their relationship, Hanna would always ask the "kid" to read to her. So one day he decided to ask her to read to him but she refused said: "Your voice sounds so beautiful." The "kid" just assumed that this was actually true thus completely ignoring the possibility that she couldn't read.
During the trial Hanna is questioned by the judge about the fire in the church and why they didn't help save the women and children who were stuck inside. She replied that she didn't know what to do at the time; the other guards who were taken to the hospital, hardly injured left the women alone to try and save everyone even though they knew they couldn't. According to all the defendants what happened in the fire was that none of them could do anything because they couldn't hear or see the fire until it was too late and already burned the church down, they were busy helping the wounded guards.
The judge, in the trial then took out a piece of paper and read it aloud. it stated that that did not happen and that they watched them burn down. All the defendants objected to this and said that the person who had written the piece of paper was Hanna and that she wrote to take the blame off her and spread it equally among all the defendants.. Hanna not knowing what to do eventually admitted that it was her who wrote it, even though as you know, it wasn't here who wrote it because she can't write. The only reason she admitted to have written it was so that she didn't have to face the shame of having to tell everyone she could not write.
You seem to be enjoying it. I like the way you are implicitly including your response to the book rather than just giving a synopsis.
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