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Chapter 13; Reminiscing




''I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, wich is hard and more real than I am and glows red with its transclucent wrapping'' 

It is a sentence that brings chills to the readers and makes them understand truly what the character feels in her situation. All of this, while reminiscing to her better life in the past.

In the chapter, we see just how terrible Gilead is with its rules, for example, Offred had to pretend not to know her friend Moira, a handmaid brought in three weeks after herself, because it would bring too much attention, wich could then lead to suspicion. Also, the moment in wich they had to testify their past. Janine, another handmaid, was the worst victim since she was shamed and embarrassed for her nightmarish past in which she had no control in and was unavoidable. The matter of 'gang raping' is a dangerous action in wich one would have a great deal of pain and effort to avoid since it includes an odd number of foes versus one. With this being said, it is horrible to shame something so scary and dangerous. After the event with Janine, Offred was reminiscing about her child in which she missed. She remembers running through the woods trying to escape, hearing gun shots toward her direction and the stress of protecting her daughter. Sadly, she was taken away from her while Offred was restrained. In this moment, she remembered only watching her daughter get kidnapped in front of her own eyes and her not being able to do a thing.

In conclusion, we see how terrible of a place Gilead is, how much the handmaids suffer, the way they have been taken from the ones they love and how terrible of a situation they find theirselves in.

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