Courtney Roberts
Ap English
Independent Assignment
The Handmaid’s Tale
Content 1: Night (1)
• People called Aunts guard the people.
• Five characters introduced.
• They secretly talk at night.
• Setting is in a gym with a fence around it.
• Yearning- longing for something
• Handmaid camp.
• Short chapter.
Content 2: Shopping (2-6)
• Serena was in a gospel singing and gardened.
• Nick flirts with Offred.
• Fraternize- behave like a brother
• Multiple colored uniforms.
• Serena wants Offred to stay away.
• Setting is the new place called “The Republic of Gilead.”
• Offered needs to get use to her new life.
• Offred went through Handmaid training, they used biblical verses to help train the women.
Content 3: Night (7)
• Janine is…show more content… • Offred starts remembering her past lif, good and bad things..
• Handmaid's aren't allowed to write.
• Short chapter.
• Handmaid's went shopping.
Content 4: Waiting Room (8-12)
• Offred's room is a mess and has Latin wrote on it.
• When the Handmaid's walk home they notice all kinds of interesting things.
• Serena stayed at home most days.
• Nostalgic- affection for the past
• Gays and Lesbians wasn't allowed back than.
• No music.
• Doctor offers to have sex with Offerd because The Commander is kind of infertile.
• Offerd refuses the doctors offer because she would be hurt.
• Offerd did much of nothing besides going to the store and trying to have The Commanders child.
• Thought of daughter in tub.
• She is scared to be naked.
• She eats nasty lunch and than takes with her.
• Has tattoo.
Content 5: Nap (13)
• Aunt- trainer of Handmaid's at the Red House
• Offers wasn't allowed to talk to Moira but did in secret.
• Short chapter.
• Women are more fertile than men.
• Offred almost died and was harmed when captured.
• Handmaid and family got together to get stuff off of their shoulders.
Content 6: Household (14-17)
• Beautitude- supreme…show more content… • Swoon- faint from emotion.
• Offred has new feelings arising for The Commander.
• Offred gets a magazine.
• Part of a Handmaid's job is shopping for the family.
• US people was killed and their ways was banned.
• Ofglen and Offred are close friends recently.
Content 11: Night (30)
• Handmaid's pray.
• Memories of past are not as common.
• Short chapter.
• Summer time.
• Offred is going mental.
Content 12: Jezebel’s (31-39)
• Men so called could do everything better.
• Serena gives Offred a prize for having sex with Nick.
• Serena wants to play the child of Nick and Offred's as The Commanders child.
• Offred has a crazy plan.
• Mayday=password.
• Always on a time frame.
• Offred and The Commander build more trust day in and day out.
• The Commander gives Offred makeup.
• The Commander tries new things with Offerd to try to actually make the child.
• Hand signals are very commonly used in this book.
• Setting is a hotel.
Content 13: Night (40)
• Offred still loves Luke.
• Short chapter.
• Serena sets up sex for Nick and Offred.
• Offred is excited to have sex with Nick but later regrets.
• Serena wanted them to have sex because she knows her husband is more than likely