Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a report on The Handmaid's Tale. This story, done by Margaret Atwood, suddenly spiked with popularity recently with the Hulu television series, touches on many sensitive topics. It's about an America where a hostile takeover by the military transforms it into Gilead, a place where women are treated little more as objects and animals. It's a horrible vision of the future. It follows the tale of Offred thru the horrible twisted world that has quickly become of America.
It is not a clearcut story. By that, I mean it's not linear. As much as it progresses and ends at the end, flashbacks are quite common. It's a great book and easy to understand, but hard to explain. It's not written like a normal book when it comes to that. Events come in a strange order of both past and future. However, it's not the strangest one when it comes to that, that goes to I am the Cheese. So, it's both in order and not. Is that confusing? Because it surprisingly wasn't confusion to read.
The plot also ends before finalizing, seeing her leave into a world of unknowns. And it makes sense. Although some people have problems with that ending, the fact is that once it reaches that point it is no longer The Handmaid's Tale as she is no longer a Handmaid. But different views are shone on the ending and there is no right one.
Adventure Van, thinking.
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