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Michael Berg. Michael is both the narrator and the central character in the novel. When it begins, he is a fifteen year old boy, anxious to grow up, feeling the conflict internally that is felt by the majority of teen boys the world over. Sometimes he feels incredibly confident, briilliant, charismatic and popular.
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Michael Berg Narration, Chapter Ten. Michael is a...
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The man who picks up Michael as he is hitchhiking to the...
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Michael is not a young child in the novel, and is fifteen...
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The use of this simile is very revealing in the novel;...
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The story’s protagonist and narrator, who as a fifteen-year-old boy has an affair with an older woman named Hanna, only to discover years later that his lover was once a Nazi prison guard. Born to an educated middle-class family, Michael is an affable and moderately intelligent boy.
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war.
Michael initially meets Hanna when he is stricken by hepatitis outside her apartment block. She comes to his aid, and months later he visits her to thank her for her assistance.
Jan 27, 1990 · Michael Clemens Berg Jr. Maintained by: JC. Originally Created by: Erice Wilcox. Added: 23 Dec 2008. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 32371581. Source citation. Born on 21 Aug 1955. Died on 27 Jan 1990. Buried in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- August 21, 1955
- Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
Oct 17, 2023 · Berg recounts the efforts of Span Lokken, a jaded Minneapolis reporter who gets pulled into his newspaper's coverage of the murders at Saint Ansgar, a sizable Lutheran church in the heart of Minneapolis. One victim is the famous but controversial senior pastor; the second is the church's sexton.
Nov 5, 2023 · Michael Berg passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Minneapolis StarTribune on 2023-11-05.
