This story discusses how men and women live differently from each other. The men in this story have more power than women and have control over them as well. The women in this story must follow many of the rules. The question for this story is, how does hierarchy play in the gender roles of men and women? This story is called “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This story revolves around hierarchy, power, and gender roles.

In Chapter 23 of The Handmaid’s Tale, 

Offred said, “We are for breeding purposes. (Pg136)” This talks about how women are being treated in Gilead. The women in Gilead are being treated like a breeding machine. How I feel about this is kinda disturbing because this story is all about women being used for breeding purposes and nothing else. How I feel about this part of the story is mostly weird and confusing, because why are the women being treated like they are being used, like it is no big deal? Also, why are women even part of this in the first place, and who started this whole thing?

In Chapter 28 from pages 176-177 of The Handmaid’s Tale, 

Offred was going to the corner store to buy some cigarettes, and the usual lady that she always sees is not there, but a young man at the counter. She gave him her card to let him put the number in to buy her cigarettes, and the young man said that it was invalid. Offred thought that was a mistake and told him to try again and watch his finger punching the number in, checked the number on the window, and it showed her number; it is still invalid. So she tried to call the office, but it went straight to voicemail, saying that the line is overloaded. The line was overloaded all morning, and she tried to phone the office back several times, but no one answered. One day, the director walked into the discing room and having a talk with the female workers and Offred. The director told the female workers and Offred that they were being let go because of the law, and said that they couldn’t work there anymore. How I feel about this is kinda confusing because Offred said that her card should have money in it, but her card went invalid as if she didn’t have any money inside of it, then she tried to call the office to see why her card payment didn’t go through. All she got was a recording from the office that the line is overloaded with a bunch of calls. The lines of calls were still overloaded all morning, and she tried to call them back several times, but with no luck in sight. The second thing that got me confused is that the director told the female workers and Offred that they were being let go and couldn’t work there anymore due to law reasons. That got me really confused because what kind of law doesn’t allow women to work anymore, due to the law, and their cards getting declined when buying items? The big question is what kind of law makes women unable to even go to work anymore, and their cards are being controlled by men, like unlocking them to use their cards to buy stuff and locking them so they can’t buy anything at all?

This story discusses how women are being exploited as a means to an end by men. The women are trying to get close to them and hoping that they can bear a child. The question for this story is, how does religion influence people & spark fear? The story that we are looking into is called “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This story is all about men being more powerful than women, and every woman that are under their followership is trying to get close to them, and tries to have a child with one of them. This story also shows that there is a ¼ chance of having a healthy child being born, while the other ¾ chance is of children being born unhealthy and may die after being born.

In "The Handmaid's Tale,” there are a lot of women who are under a religion where they are being used to give birth to one of the commanders. There are different rankings for women, and they are “The Aunts,” and they are the elderly ladies who have an education and give the Handmaid’s some lessons about how to be a Handmaid. “The Marthas” are just cleaners who are also invisible to other people. “The Handmaid’s” are servants to the commanders and bear their children. “The Unwomen” are scared to become a Handmaid because they don’t want to become part of that religion where they have to bear someone's children, and want to escape the place. The men have their own rankings, and they are “The Guards,” who are the protectors of the Handmaid’s, making sure that nothing happens to them. “The Angels” run the society, meaning they are in charge of guarding the front lines, and they are also trusted with upholding. “The Commanders” are basically running the whole thing. “The Eyes” are mysterious because they are always undercover, seeing if the Handmaid’s were spreading information with them.

In one of the texts, Offred was in a ceremony, and the commanders told them to pray. This is what the text said, “I pray silently: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I don’t know what it means, but it sounds right, and it will have to do, because I don’t know what else I can say to God.” (Pg90) Offred didn’t know the meaning of what it meant, and the praying word was in Latin so they never know what it meant. I am also in confusion with my religion because I’m not really interested in my religion, but my mom does this every day, and she would always chant something, and I never fully understand what it even means at all. My family's religion is all about Buddhism, and only my mom and my aunt are the only ones who do this every morning. 

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15 friends were hanging out until they found a strange house outside of the neighborhood. They went in and something happened when they walked in the house. What will happen to them? Will one of them die or will all of them survive?