Character List → Brewster Place - The name of the housing development in which the novel is set. Although Brewster Place is a physical structure‚ it is personified and endowed with a spirit that brings it to life. Brewster Place is at once a warm‚ loving community and a desolate and blighted neighborhood on the verge of collapsing. Mattie Michael - The most important character in the novel. Mattie moves to Brewster Place late in life‚ after her son abandons her and forces her to lose her home
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book. She is forced to wear a long red habit. Due to the low reproduction rates her job is to produce children for the elite couples that have trouble conceiving. Offred is the handmaid’s for the elite couple named the Commander and his wife Serena Joy. Serena Joy is a former gospel singing. In these camps they give
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Cow’s London Case Study Analysis James and Serena Udderlie are interested in opening a Cow’s London franchise in London‚ Ontario. In order to do so‚ the Udderlie’s must prepare a loan application to the Confederation Bank of Canada. The Udderlie’s are both well educated and employable. James completed his MBA in 1983 and Serena has received her Bachelor of Arts‚ Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education. In addition to these degrees‚ they both claim to have an entrepreneurial spirit
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Or that is how she tells it. Other believe she had a baby‚ did major drugs‚ got a STD‚ or slept with every boy at her new school. Serena who left off at a high note‚ felt strange going back and becoming a loser. Even worst is when her best friend Bair doesn’t act like a best friend anymore. Well after what Serena did to her boyfriend‚ who would want to befriend her? Cecily von Ziegesar was not afraid to write as a teenager talks. The book use explicit language‚ and details
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tension between minoritized groups to distract from their oppression. One main example of this tension is the Wife’s hatred and contempt of Offred. This is seen from the very beginning‚ during a flashback to Offred arriving at the house. The Wife‚ Serena Joy‚ treats her coldly. She makes it clear that she has the power and claim over her
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characters continuously rebel against the States that they are subject to‚ regardless of the consequences of their actions. In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Offred subverts the authority of the State by having an affair with Luke before she was married to him. Serena Joy also rebels against the State in The Handmaid’s Tale by purchasing the illegal contraband‚ cigarettes‚ and smoking them in front of Offred and the rest of her house. In 1984‚ Winston Smith subverts the authority of the State by writing in a diary
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An Analysis of Li Yu’s Idea of “Love” Reading Li Yu is an experience full of wonders. Not that his works are uncommonly amusing and entertaining for my stereotype of classical Chinese literature; I do enjoy his relatively independent literary approach—however mundane and vulgar it is said to be—from the orthodox literature tradition of his time (Zhang et al.‚ 2008: 2)‚ but it is the less independent part of him that I find most intriguing: that marriages are for the parents to decide‚ that love
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(Atwood 22). Many times in the book these red tulips seem to pop up. There is a set of red tulips in Serena Joy’s garden. She grows them in her garden because to her they represent life and fertility which is a key theme of the novel. And since she can’t bear her own child. She must-- even if she hates to-- put her trust in Offred to produce her her heir. But couldn’t the red also stand for the hatred Serena Joy feels for her In today’s society if a person was to give a tulip to someone it would be because
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In March‚ Raymond Moore made very rude comments about women in the WTA and how they ride on the coattails of men. He also said that women don’t make any decisions and they are lucky. I am pretty sure women tennis players choose where they play and if they don’t play. I think women are considered underdogs to men because men hit the tennis ball harder and have fast serves. Hitting the tennis ball harder doesn’t matter. It is how consistent you are. If my opponent can hit ten balls in a row then I
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a hole in their heart that can never be refilled. Two books that prove this are My Book of Life by Angel‚ by Martine Leavitt‚ and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban‚ by J. K. Rowling. In Leavitt’s story‚ Angel loses her mother and her friend Serena‚ giving her emotional handicaps throughout the story‚ and stopping her from being able to escape her situation. Rowling’s character‚ Sirius Black‚ lost two of his closest friends‚ and never truly recovers from it. It is true that loved ones are more
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