The Handmaid's Tale By Offred
The Handmaids tale was set in 2195 in the United States of America.
III. This book is narrated in first person. By a woman named Offred
IV. In the utopian society of America they now have handmaids. Handmaids are women who have one job: to make babies. They are appointed that job because there is an exodus of people due to the radiation. Offered who is the main character and narrator is the handmaid for the commander and his wife. offred can only leave the house once a day to go to the store. Most of the women are deprived of an education because it is prohibited. Offred has to pray to god that she gets pregnant every month because that’s the only way you’re truly valued is whether or not you can reproduce or not. The flashbacks that happen in the story are when Offred is happy with her husband and when they lived together and she could look over and …show more content…
protect her husband. She had the “American dream” but all of that was taken away from her when she became a handmaid.
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This book was probably the most intriguing books I’ve read based on the content. You have all of these questions like can America really be this way in the future? Is this really how women will get treated if there is an exodus? I personally did not like this book because I found it hard to read. Reading books where women are downgraded and thought of to be nothing is really “different” in a sense. It was also hard to read because it was not the most interesting read, I thought I had a interest in the utopian societies based off of the giver but I soon came the conclusion that I only like that book because of it’s romance base. Even though the Handmaids tale did have romance, it was not the kind I was looking for.
VI. The theme of The Handmaids tale most shown in the book is sexuality. In the 21st century people experience manipulation between different sexes. Men are the ones on power that is shown various times throughout the story. When people convince women that they are only good for ones things they will start to believe that. If a person were to be gay or a lesbian in this book you would be
executed.
VII. This book has won 2 awards: Arthur C. Clarke ward and the Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. The handmaids tale has a lexile of 750 which is 4th grade reading level. Books related would be The Women’s Room by Marilyn French, He, She and It by Marge Piercy and Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler. I would recommend this book if you like books about utopian societies or books that are fiction but have potential to be real.
III. This book is narrated in first person. By a woman named Offred
IV. In the utopian society of America they now have handmaids. Handmaids are women who have one job: to make babies. They are appointed that job because there is an exodus of people due to the radiation. Offered who is the main character and narrator is the handmaid for the commander and his wife. offred can only leave the house once a day to go to the store. Most of the women are deprived of an education because it is prohibited. Offred has to pray to god that she gets pregnant every month because that’s the only way you’re truly valued is whether or not you can reproduce or not. The flashbacks that happen in the story are when Offred is happy with her husband and when they lived together and she could look over and …show more content…
protect her husband. She had the “American dream” but all of that was taken away from her when she became a handmaid.
V.
This book was probably the most intriguing books I’ve read based on the content. You have all of these questions like can America really be this way in the future? Is this really how women will get treated if there is an exodus? I personally did not like this book because I found it hard to read. Reading books where women are downgraded and thought of to be nothing is really “different” in a sense. It was also hard to read because it was not the most interesting read, I thought I had a interest in the utopian societies based off of the giver but I soon came the conclusion that I only like that book because of it’s romance base. Even though the Handmaids tale did have romance, it was not the kind I was looking for.
VI. The theme of The Handmaids tale most shown in the book is sexuality. In the 21st century people experience manipulation between different sexes. Men are the ones on power that is shown various times throughout the story. When people convince women that they are only good for ones things they will start to believe that. If a person were to be gay or a lesbian in this book you would be
executed.
VII. This book has won 2 awards: Arthur C. Clarke ward and the Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. The handmaids tale has a lexile of 750 which is 4th grade reading level. Books related would be The Women’s Room by Marilyn French, He, She and It by Marge Piercy and Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler. I would recommend this book if you like books about utopian societies or books that are fiction but have potential to be real.