The wall is a hundred or over a hundred years old.The function of the wall is to have the bodies hanged and for the people to look at them “it doesn't matter if we look were supposed to look: this is what they are here for” (atwood 32) Are supposed to know that the wall is there for a reason and need to take it serious being there..The purpose of the wall is to show the people what will happen to them if they committed crimes like the doctors and how they viewed them. “ These men we’ve been told are like war criminals” (Atwood 33). Shows people that they viewed the doctors as the worst criminals for doing what they did. Why the doctors have been executed is because they use to practice abortion before the war and even though it was legal
