The
novel The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, should be a must-read book
because it gives a different outlook on life, Challenges reader’s beliefs and
displays a controversial topic.
In
this dystopian society, the women tend to belief and accept their world’s rules
in which gives readers a different outlook on life. Rules in this book are more
extreme and stricter than today’s regulations. As the Handmaids in the book
discussed such issue, Offred, the main character, says, “We were the people who
were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of
print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” The other handmaids agree that the rules and regulations
that they go through “g[i]ve [them] more freedom” when in all actuality, it
does not. The handmaids are brainwashed to believe that laying on their backs
in order to be pregnant is right. As the
reader, one may think that “liv[ing] in the
blank white spaces at the edges of print” is okay. One may argue that living in
the “white spaces” allows freed to create ones own story; “[gives] freedom.” On
the contrary others may argue that the “print” is the most important part. The
story has structure: verbs, adjectives, and nouns with periods and commas that
hold every together. The Handmaids Tale
allows the reader to choose which outlook on life that the story provides.
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ReplyDeleteI have not read this book, but I really enjoyed your reasoning's on why it should be a must read. I think that you had some points that could interest the reader in wanting to read this book. The sentence that intrigued me the most would actually be the last one when you said, "the reader gets to choose which outlook on life that the story provides". I think that by saying this the reader will want to look into this book to see what "outlook on life" are available to portray.
ReplyDeleteThe subject of a white wall is something that I feel you discussed very well. When people see a white wall they either see something plain and useless or something that with a little work can become something beautiful. though i have not read this book from what you have said I have a good feeling that through reading this book the reader would find out which of the two people they are. From this people may now start to think what things in their lives could become. therefore I agree with the fact that this should be a must read book.
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