The New book #7

I finished the book! Finally! The Handmaid's Tale was a really great book but i was still glad that i finally finished the book because i don't have to read another book in my Lowell year! I hope this will be our last book of the year..... but anyway! The end of the book was really unexpected. I thought Offred was going to get sent to the colonies by the commander's wife for going to the nightclub. But instead, the Mayday came in a van and saved her life! It was very exciting at the part when the commander and his wife were questioning "the Eyes" for Offred's crime. I thought "the Eyes" cleverly answered all of their questions and made the commander couple believed that they were the real Eyes. I was kind of shock that Offred doubted Nick for a second when he told her about the Eyes outside were actually Mayday, because you should never doubt the one you love! But i am glad that Offred decided to believe Nick and did not suicide like the other handmaid!

The New book #6

So we started doing propaganda in class and i learned that there are actually so many types of propaganda. There are naming calling, fear, glittering generalties, transfer, testimonial, bandwagon and much more.I first learned about propaganda in my US history class back in junior, it was mostly about people using it during the WWII. The US used propaganda to get citizen to join the war effort by encouraging them to join the army and to save food for the soldiers. Propaganda was used widely in the society of The Handmaid's Tale too! The Gilead government use varity of propaganda to get the citizen to obey the rules. I think fear is used to most by the Gilead to warn people not to break the rules because through out the story, people in Gilead are afraid to take certain action because of the fear that they might end up like certain people. For example, Offred was often afraid to speak out her mind or disobey her master because she didn't want to end up like the unwomen in the colonies.