Margaret Brown

This is a novel where the main character, Offred tells her side of the story sort of like a diary through The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margret Atwood, which took place in what used to be Cambridge, Massachusetts. Offred had a very rough life; everything she loved had been rip away from her hands, she forced into participating a training center. Where many young women are being brainwashed into clueless puppets and turn into handmaids. Handmaids are composed of fertile women that must help bear…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores the idea of… Offred is a Handmaid whose sole purpose in the society of Gilead is to reproduce by having sex with a man known as the Commander. However, the Commander has a designated Wife known as Serena Joy, and the Wives of the Commanders cannot produce children due to infertility. These two women, existing both separately and together in a lifeless world with a declining birth rate, interact in subtle yet strained ways. In a particular scene…

the Commander, and her courage to join the subversives. I love this quote because it is so simplistic, but the message it holds is so meaningful. Margaret Atwood wrote this book to warn future generations, to prevent our society from becoming the toxic world that is Gilead and this quote sums that up in four simple Latin words. With this book, Margaret Atwood is telling everyone to never let the bastards grind you…

Clearly the British have been a thorn in the side of the republican Nationalist and members of the IRA. One person however really sent them into to disarray and that woman’s name is Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first and only female Prime Minister, which would pave the way for female politicians in Great Britain. Her nickname the Iron Lady would resonate with world because of her conservative values and her quest to end…

there 's something hidden underneath the surface of the Mystery Shack and the Pines twins are about to figure out what it 's all about. Mabel and Dipper Pines are a pair of twelve year old mystery solving twins who are short and share thick light brown hair. Dipper, who has a constellation-shaped birthmark on his forehead hidden underneath his hair and light blue baseball cap, found a journal filled with information about Gravity Falls and all of the unknown supernatural beings and abandoned…

Sirens could be heard while Adam Wyatt went in and out of consciousness. He looked up to see lights from the inside of the ambulance. He felt his body swaying left and right to the fast movement of the ride. He knew that if this was it, he would expect any minute to see his life flashing before his eyes. The oxygen mask the paramedics put on his face was starting to chafe but he couldn’t get his hand up to remove it. He wanted to cry but didn’t even have the strength for that. Adam could see…

It’s all Rainbows and Sunshine We are all spoiled, from the day we were born our parents have given us everything that a child could ever want and need. Growing up in a “normal” house with your average family was the dream. It is not until we start reaching our last years of high school and start heading off to college when we realize that life in itself is truly a blessing. Looking back on my childhood, making the basketball team or baseball team was never hard. School always came easy, and…

screaming at her with loud beeping. She woke up with a sigh knowing that school started in an hour. She got out of her warm bed and got dressed in an army green sweater, gray jeans, and pulled on some brown boots. She walked out of her room and into the bathroom. She combed out her softly curled chocolate brown hair, and applied some gold winged eyeliner over her icy blue eyes and she dragged her burgundy lipstick over her lips. She ran back to her room grabbing her phone before running down the…

Her shocking, revealing story is brought home by a complex, and effective, narrative technique. Works Cited and Consulted Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books: New York, New York, 1985. Conboy, Sheila C. "Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Eds. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany : State…

Throughout all of human history language has been a powerful tool used by all in some shape or form. Language varies in forms, even encompassing the primitive cave paintings from ancient times or the verbal speech used by people today. Despite its many forms, language is always able to empower the wielder. Humans have used it against each other for centuries to gain power over others. Language is liberating and language is oppressive. Some have freed thousands of people with an outstanding…