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The
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Review by Miss Katelyn
Written in the 1980s, this book
takes place in our own time, but not in our world.
America
has been destroyed, with the
Republic
of
Gilead
rising in its place, as a nation of strict social and religious laws,
which divides not only the sexes, and social classes, but also those moral
few from those who have fallen from grace. Our narrator, Offred
(pronounced “off-rid,” and meaning “Of Fred”) tells of how she
struggles to find some type of peace in her new life as a Handmaid, a
slave whose only purpose it to produce a healthy child, while holding on
to the life that she once lived and how it was stripped from here.
Everyone should read this novel,
and be prepared to be shocked, scared, and, most importantly, to think,
because there is always a here and a time when tragedy strikes. |
