Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: Published in 1995, The Reader was written by a German writer Harder Schlink. The book is different from his former detective stories. As soon as it appears in the market, it was warmly welcomed and has broken many records in publishing circle. With the background set in the early period after the World War II in Germany, the novel describes the relationship between a kindhearted, self-respecting, ignorant woman and a boy more than 10 years younger than her. They were firstly acquainted with one another by accident, fell in love, separated and had a reunion. The story, which can be divided into three parts with orderly structure, is both profound and thought-provoking. It portrays not only the unforgettable love but also the vivid characters. This paper mainly analyzes the roots resulting in Hanna’s suicide from the two aspects of the external causes and the internal causes. Roughly speaking, her suicide is not just a simple personal behavior, or her temporary impulsion, but involves the social background, other people's influence, her own personality. Therefore Hanna death is worth our pondering.

Key Words: Hanna’s character r; exterior reason; internal reason; The Reader

摘 要: 《朗读者》是德国作家哈德•施林克在1995年发表的一部区别于其以往侦探小说的作品，一经面世，就打破了出版界多项记录，备受欢迎，小说以二战后初期的德国为背景，他描述了一个善良，自尊心强又无知的女人与一个年龄相差十几岁的男生之间的感情，以他们相识相爱，相离到重逢为主线，故事分为三个部分，条理清晰，故事深刻又耐人寻味，刻画了一段刻骨铭心的爱情，以及丰富饱满的人物形象，本文主要从内在和外在原因来分析汉娜自杀的根源，汉娜自杀并不仅是简单的一个人的自杀行为，也不是汉娜的一时冲动，它涉及了社会大背景，他人的影响，汉娜自身的涵养素质，汉娜的死值得引起我们的思考。

关键词: 汉娜；外因；内因；《朗读者》

1．Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Writer
Bernhard Schlink is a German journalist and writer. Born in Bethel, German, he was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of two. He studied law at West Berlin’s Free University, graduating in 1968. Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. In January 2006, he retired.
His career as a writer began with several detective novels ，in 1995 , he published The Reader , In 2000, Schlink published a collection of short fiction called Flights of Love. In 2010 his Non-fiction political history, Guilt about the past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).Schlink currently divides his time between New York and Berlin