The Frog Blog

  I recently read The Handmaid's Tale; wow, it was eye-opening. It is set in this dystopian world where ordinary people, and it can be argued that everyone, have lost most of their rights. Everything is extremely organized and strict. People are divided into classes, in a way, and that defines their lifestyle and duties. The story focuses on a Handmaid named Ofglen, who is a sex slave. Slowly, we learn more about her life before everything changed into its strict nature. Overall, I thought this book was pretty good. It was definitely a hard read; I kept putting myself into Ofglen's shoes and thinking about how helpless a life like that would make me feel. I felt so bad for her and how she was forced into everything in her life. She had literally no choices. Clothing? Red cloak with a white guard shielding her face. Communication? Extremely limited. Family? Gone. She is viewed as her one purpose in life is just to make a child for a man who is of a higher status than she. Althou...