Blog 3: Handmaid's Tale

Today in class i liked how Ms. Aaland helepd us figure out a strategy in trying to understand and interpret Offred's use of language and just the story and what's happening in general.

it was soooooooo funny how my critical friend Eileen and I kept laughing when we made our own remarks an questions to the material we'd finish reading. and also i've realized that when i read, i use that same strategy but i keep all my comments in my head, lol.

this book is very sexual, i think. when the commander plays scrabble with Offred, it's ironic because women in that society arent allowed to read or write, in other words, to be literate. but Offred's very much literate, she even sounds well-educated like i've mentioned in my other blog entries (her ussage of grammar and fragments as well as her dramatic irony and fragment sentences).

since its si bad to be literate in that society, is the commander attracted to Offred because she is capabale of such knowledge? is he even attracted to her? i think he might just be. he, having such a high ranking, and she, having probably the lowest status, from what i infer, is attracted to offred because she is different. he could have "ratted her out" when she had eye to eye contact with him or even when he discovered how educated she is, but he didn't.

also, another topoic that came up was, love. i feel that sex is considered a good thing in that society but love, is depised. all elaborate more on that on my next blog :] gnight everyone!