Not bad (Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood)

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Product:	Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Date:	26/12/00 (27 review reads)
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My reason for reading the Handmaids tale was due all my friends reading it for there A level in English lit. They kept talking about the book. So I borrowed it to see what it was all about and so that I could join in with them and become part of the in crowd.

The book is set in a future where we have no hope. In addition, any woman who is not a high enough social class and was fit and healthy. Our used as surrogate mothers for all the rich and upper class women whom are unable to have children of their own. Therefore, the handmaids as they are called are called in service to have their babies. As well as having to becoming pregnant, they are sent to the shop to shop with credits. Every where there are soldiers. Before they are sent to the women to become, handmaids they are all sent to a big camp. Where they are all sleep in on room. And train to become handmaids. Our character Offred makes friends with someone. Who in the end helps her to escape and find the child that she had before becoming a handmaiden?

Once you are handmaiden you are expect to sleep with the master once a week and to become pregnant as soon as possible. The coupling is to be devoid of any affection. The mistress of the house knows that her husband is incapable of fathering a child so sends her handmaiden to one of her male employees to help her have the children.

The story twist and turn she meets her friend from the handmaids school in a rather unusual circumstances. Moreover, as time goes the mistress of the house begins to hate Offred.

This book could offer a window in to the future if we don't stop to think about what we are doing to the world and the rich will run it.

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