Gilead

evident within the household. The power resides in position one is in at that household. Atwood uses figurative language, word repetition, and symbolism to explain the power. What use to be called the United States of America, is now the Republic of Gilead. Due to low birth rates, a society was built to try and turn around the reproduction issue. The society is set around a hierarchy. This hierarchy revolved specifically around the household the hierarchies, beginning with the Commanders and the…

Elijah’s name means “my God is the Lord” (“Examples Of Faith (IV): Elijah The Prophet")”. God performed many miracles through Elijah, including raising the dead (1 Kings 17: 17-22), and bringing fire down from the sky (2 Kings 1:10). Elijah came from Gilead, east of the Jordan river. Elijah was sent to confront, not comfort,…

was thinking in the present. For instance, “Nothing was packed up, because we weren’t taking much with us and we couldn’t afford even to give the least appearance of leaving” (Atwood 192). The narrator and her husband, Luke, were planning on leaving Gilead and wanted it to be done secretly. Both were tempted to leave seeing that they would not have their old life back. The narrator’s desire was strong considering a cat’s life was taken, for her to try and leave. Immediately, “Useless as it…

Health is one of the biggest concerns in modern society. In 2012 the United States of America spent 2.8 trillion dollars just in healthcare (750 billion or 27% more than the per capita spends in other 1st world countries), yet The World Health Organization ranks United States’ health system performance 37th in the world. Regardless of its high expenses, 50.7 million Americans do not have access to an acceptable healthcare and even after the implementation of Obamacare the North American…

one believing. Throughout A Handmaid’s Tale the protagonist, Offred, was taken from her home during a civil war between those rebelling against the government and the government themselves. Those rebelling created a whole new society, referred to as Gilead, where the…

Poetry is one of the most powerful tools in conveying many different things such as love, fear, common sense, and characters perceptions of what is wrong or right. This allows the audience to be able to make connections with the perceptions of different characters. One very great poet who is able to do this is Edgar Allan Poe. It was his background that made him the poet he is known widely to be today. From the very early stages of life till his death, Edgar Allan Poe had been going through very…

illnesses can destroy their life. To begin, in the story written by Edgar Allan Poe entitled “The Raven”, the raven symbolizes the narrator’s struggle with grief and depression, as explained in the following quote, “Is there- is there balm in Gilead? –tell me- tell me, I implore! / Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore’” (Poe, 89, 90). This quote illustrates the raven which represents the…

Pat Carr’s novel Leaving Gilead is showing readers what families would have to go through during the civil war. From losing homes to losing families, times were tough. The family in this story is none other than the Birdsongs, who have to travel south to a family members to try and escape the warzone. When they started their trip they believed the Confederate soldiers were good and the Yankees were bad. Soon did they realize, war can bring the worst out of people. In the hard times of…

Independent Reading Assignment One Women are alive only for the sole benefit of the male population. They bear children for the purpose of continuing a man’s legacy, demonstrating their rightful ownership to the leader of the household through their service. This submission is rightfully deserved, as women lack the strength necessary to match the great power of the male gender. Throughout the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, author Margaret Atwood embarks on the mission of detailing the…

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price on a drug to treat infections in AIDS patients by 5,000%, from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill thus shining a global spotlight on the United States’ precarious healthcare market. Shkreli has become the ogre of healthcare. Yet other companies have jacked up prices just as much as Shkreli did, with no consequences other than soaring stock prices. In September of 2016, the makers of the Epipen (The Epi-pen is only the…