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 the children of high-ranking commanders. When telling her side story, Offred manages to use many narrative techniques that cause her story to become very horrifying yet interesting. The many varieties of narrative techniques used within the novel are flashback, foreshadowing, and imagery.
The first thing to remember is Offred uses flashback quite often in her story; it helps keep her memories refreshed and add a bit of horror within the story. For example, “You can’t work here anymore, it’s the law… He’s loopy, someone said out loud; which we must all have thought. But I could see out into the corridor, and there were two men standing there, uniforms, with machine guns…” (pp. 176-177) This piece …show more content…
An example of imagery is “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it… the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, through the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room…” (pp. 3) The imagery Offred gives is very straightforward and simple; it helps the reader imagine the area right away without having to put some thinking to it. This type of imagery is place in various chapters in the story, especially when it came to describing a specific person or place. Imagery is a unique technique that very helpful and it makes the story more alive and
The first thing to remember is Offred uses flashback quite often in her story; it helps keep her memories refreshed and add a bit of horror within the story. For example, “You can’t work here anymore, it’s the law… He’s loopy, someone said out loud; which we must all have thought. But I could see out into the corridor, and there were two men standing there, uniforms, with machine guns…” (pp. 176-177) This piece …show more content…
An example of imagery is “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it… the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, through the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room…” (pp. 3) The imagery Offred gives is very straightforward and simple; it helps the reader imagine the area right away without having to put some thinking to it. This type of imagery is place in various chapters in the story, especially when it came to describing a specific person or place. Imagery is a unique technique that very helpful and it makes the story more alive and