The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

by Margaret Atwood | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 038549081x Global Overview for this book
Registered by ensignpavel of Tucson, Arizona USA on 5/21/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by ensignpavel from Tucson, Arizona USA on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I found this book profoundly disturbing because it could so easily happen. It depicts an America where religious fundamentalists have taken over, people of differing religions are hunted down and executed, and women have no rights. The story follows Offred (of Fred - she is named for the man who owns her) of the Handmaiden class. The Handmaidens only exist to get pregnant. And if they don't, they are sent to work camps in polluted areas that kill people in a few years.

Throughout the story you get flashbacks of how things got to this point - it happened very gradually so that no one really noticed. Just some constriction of some people's rights - for secrity reasons, you know. It's all for your own good and all that. Just like what is going on right now to fight terrorism.

Journal Entry 2 by ensignpavel at Desert View High School in Tucson, Arizona USA on Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (5/21/2008 UTC) at Desert View High School in Tucson, Arizona USA

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