1. Michael has fallen in love with Hannah, so much so that he won’t even masturbate because he needs to be with her. However, he is not totally sure if this love is merely because they slept together or if it is true love. Michael decides he wants to show off his new manliness to his teachers and classmates at school. Although the doctor told him not to go back to school for three weeks he convinces his parents he is ready. Michael goes back to school, but he skips his last class so he can go have sex with Hanna. Slowly he becomes more experienced and takes more control of his actions. When he tells Hanna of the sacrifice he is committing to see her everyday she flips out and yells at him to leave and that he cannot come back to see her until her work is done. Michael and Hanna begin to have a real relationship, not just having sex but talking with each other and learning about each other’s personalities. Hanna also forces Michael to read to her before they can shower and make love. On the first day of his Easter vacation, Michael wakes up early in the morning to go visit Hanna at her job on the streetcar. His choice to sit in the second streetcar instead of the first turns into a fight, which he is forced to surrender in order to continue having sex. Michael and Hanna decide to take a four day bike trip. Michael begins to become the man in the relationship, choosing where to go and where to stay and taking more control during the sex. After a fight over a misplaced note, Michael reads to her and then writes her a poem.
2. I find it very interesting that Michael thinks that when he has sex with a women he needs to try to love them and feels he owes them something in return. I was also intrigued when Michael referred to his family as pets for his father. He believed that because his father was an intellectual, everyone else around him is not up to par. It was very creepy about how this 36 year old women is teaching this young boy how to scrub each other down in the shower and continuing to have sex with him daily. I am very curious as to why Hanna acted so aggressive when Michael called his schoolwork idiotic. Every high school kid hates ding homework and for some reason she takes personal offense to this. Michael admits that now when he sees a fifteen year old boy he sees a child. Instead of thinking what happened was creepy he links it to confidence. He claims without Hanna his confidence would not be remotely close to the level it was at. Michael is a complete pushover. He gives in and apologizes to Hanna for everything, even if he didn’t do anything. All he cares about is continuing to have sex with her. I also wonder why Hanna is obsessed with baths? Every time they are having sex they bathe first. At first I thought this relationship was all about the sex. While I still think the boy’s raging hormones have something to do with it, I also believe the two have real feelings for each other. This build up of feelings and the talk about how he was so happy and how things end badly can only mean that this relationship is doomed.
