summary Chapter 8 is about the book written by the daughter. Michael worked through the book with particular thoroughness, but still felt alien to it. Years later he reread the book and found that it is the book that creates distance. However, even in her numbness the daughter did not lose the ability to observed and analyze. Michael also tried to recognize Hanna as one of the guards described in the book but failed. Michael then presents a summary of the book with a large amount of detail provided about the night of the fire when hundreds of prisoners died in the church.
Chapter 9 returns to the trial. The judge asks each defendant, individually, why they did not unlock the door. All of the defendants state they were physically injured, or they were performing assigned tasks, or they were in shock. However, the report found in SS archives suggested that those defendants were the female guards who kept the door locked and allowed the fire to rage in the church. The other defendants then claim that Hanna wrote the SS report as a cover-up for her own inadequacies, and that the report is not factual.
When the judge asks Hanna why she did not free the prisoners, Hanna said that they did not have any alternative. They did not know what to do. They have the responsibility to guard the women and not let them go. Then the judge asks Hanna did she write the report. Hanna said she did not, but other defendant said that it was Hanna who wrote the report. Hanna finally admitted that she had written the report because she didn’t want to give out her handwriting.
118 laborious費力的, 吃力的：needing a lot of time and effort concatenation連續：a series of events, ideas or things that are connected immediacy密切(不是立刻馬上喔)：when something seems real and important, so that you feel involved with it 119 exude發散：If you exude love, confidence, pain, etc., you show that you have a lot of that feeling draw sth from sth：to get something from a particular place pubescent青春期的：describes someone who is at the stage in their life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children precocious早熟的, 早成的：(especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual unscrupulous不擇手段的的; 不講道德的：behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want 120 forage搜索糧食：to go from place to place searching, especially for food life expectancy平均壽命 (不要分開來看喔) ：the length of time that a living thing, especially a human being, is likely to live expectancy：期待 sett off出發：to start a journey 121 trot(人的)慢跑, 急行：If a horse or similar animal with four legs trots, it runs at its slowest speed, using short steps in which a front leg and the back leg on the opposite side move together gallop疾馳, 飛跑：(of a horse) to run fast so that all four feet come off the ground together in each act of forward movement, or (of a person) to ride a horse that is running in this way quarter地方, 地域(不是四分之一喔)： He traveled in all quarters of the earth when he was young. barn穀倉, 糧倉：a large building on a farm in which hay (= dried grass)and grain are kept deserted荒蕪的(不是沙漠喔)：If a place is deserted, there are no people in it steeple尖塔; 尖頂：pointed structure on the top of a church tower, or the tower and the pointed structure considered as one unit tip：頂端; 尖端 (不是小費或提示喔) rafter椽：any of the large sloping pieces of wood which support a roof alight燃燒著的：burning; on fire 122 pulpit講道壇：a raised place in a church, with steps leading up to it, from which the priest speaks to the people during a religious ceremony nave (教堂的)中殿：the long central part of a church, often with aisles(= long passages) on both sides eerie令人毛骨悚然的：strange in a frightening and mysterious way snap劈啪地響 (不是咬或折斷喔)：to cause something which is thin to break suddenly and quickly with a cracking sound gallery：狹廊 (不是畫廊喔) 124 contingent分隊：a group of people representing an organization or country, or a part of a military force phrase：措辭, 說法 (不是片語喔) 125 archive檔案保管處; 資料庫：a collection of historical records relating to a place, organization or family 126 grope探索, 探求[(+for/after)]：in order to find or move towards something when you cannot find easily 127 cart運貨車 (不是手推車喔)：a vehicle with either two or four wheels which is pulled by a horse, and which is used for carrying goods column：(士兵的)縱隊; 小分遣隊; (船艦, 車輛等 的)縱列
128 mitigation緩和; 減輕：making something less harmful, unpleasant or bad 129 compel強迫, 使不得不：to produce a strong feeling or reaction, sometimes unwillingly
What kind of description of a guard who was called “Mare” did Michael think of Hanna?(p.119) 2.What is the meaning of the “death march”? (p.121) 3.What was the same answer when the judge asked every defendant ,” Why did you not unlock the doors?”(p.124)
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ReplyDeleteChapter 8 is about the book written by the daughter. Michael worked through the book with particular thoroughness, but still felt alien to it. Years later he reread the book and found that it is the book that creates distance. However, even in her numbness the daughter did not lose the ability to observed and analyze. Michael also tried to recognize Hanna as one of the guards described in the book but failed. Michael then presents a summary of the book with a large amount of detail provided about the night of the fire when hundreds of prisoners died in the church.
Chapter 9 returns to the trial. The judge asks each defendant, individually, why they did not unlock the door. All of the defendants state they were physically injured, or they were performing assigned tasks, or they were in shock. However, the report found in SS archives suggested that those defendants were the female guards who kept the door locked and allowed the fire to rage in the church. The other defendants then claim that Hanna wrote the SS report as a cover-up for her own inadequacies, and that the report is not factual.
When the judge asks Hanna why she did not free the prisoners, Hanna said that they did not have any alternative. They did not know what to do. They have the responsibility to guard the women and not let them go. Then the judge asks Hanna did she write the report. Hanna said she did not, but other defendant said that it was Hanna who wrote the report. Hanna finally admitted that she had written the report because she didn’t want to give out her handwriting.
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ReplyDeletelaborious費力的, 吃力的：needing a lot of time
and effort
concatenation連續：a series of events, ideas or
things that are connected
immediacy密切(不是立刻馬上喔)：when
something seems real and important, so that you
feel involved with it
119
exude發散：If you exude love, confidence, pain, etc., you show that you have a lot of that feeling
draw sth from sth：to get something from a particular place
pubescent青春期的：describes someone who is at the stage in their life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children
precocious早熟的, 早成的：(especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual
unscrupulous不擇手段的的; 不講道德的：behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want
120
forage搜索糧食：to go from place to place
searching, especially for food
life expectancy平均壽命 (不要分開來看喔)
：the length of time that a living thing, especially
a human being, is likely to live
expectancy：期待
sett off出發：to start a journey
121
trot(人的)慢跑, 急行：If a horse or similar animal
with four legs trots, it runs at its slowest speed,
using short steps in which a front leg and the back
leg on the opposite side move together
gallop疾馳, 飛跑：(of a horse) to run fast so that
all four feet come off the ground together in each
act of forward movement, or (of a person) to ride
a horse that is running in this way
quarter地方, 地域(不是四分之一喔)：
He traveled in all quarters of the earth when he
was young.
barn穀倉, 糧倉：a large building on a farm in
which hay (= dried grass)and grain are kept
deserted荒蕪的(不是沙漠喔)：If a place is
deserted, there are no people in it
steeple尖塔; 尖頂：pointed structure on the top
of a church tower, or the tower and the pointed
structure considered as one unit
tip：頂端; 尖端 (不是小費或提示喔)
rafter椽：any of the large sloping pieces of wood which support a roof
alight燃燒著的：burning; on fire
122
pulpit講道壇：a raised place in a church, with
steps leading up to it, from which the priest
speaks to the people during a religious
ceremony
nave (教堂的)中殿：the long central part of a
church, often with aisles(= long passages) on both
sides
eerie令人毛骨悚然的：strange in a frightening
and mysterious way
snap劈啪地響 (不是咬或折斷喔)：to cause
something which is thin to break suddenly and
quickly with a cracking sound
gallery：狹廊 (不是畫廊喔)
124
contingent分隊：a group of people representing
an organization or country, or a part of a military
force
phrase：措辭, 說法 (不是片語喔)
125
archive檔案保管處; 資料庫：a collection of
historical records relating to a place, organization or family
126
grope探索, 探求[(+for/after)]：in order to find or
move towards something when you cannot find
easily
127
cart運貨車 (不是手推車喔)：a vehicle with either
two or four wheels which is pulled by a horse, and
which is used for carrying goods
column：(士兵的)縱隊; 小分遣隊; (船艦, 車輛等
的)縱列
128
mitigation緩和; 減輕：making something less
harmful, unpleasant or bad
129
compel強迫, 使不得不：to produce a strong
feeling or reaction, sometimes unwillingly
What kind of description of a guard who was
ReplyDeletecalled “Mare” did Michael think of
Hanna?(p.119)
2.What is the meaning of the “death march”?
(p.121)
3.What was the same answer when the judge
asked every defendant ,” Why did you not
unlock the doors?”(p.124)