Response to the Last Part of the Handmaid's Tale

In the last part of the Handmaids' Tale, we can see that all of the stories are stored in several tapes and the names the characters are just code names. Also, in the Historical Notes, the professor Pieixoto introduces the reason that why the handmaids are always wearing the red cloth. The designer, Limpkin "seems to have  borrowed from the uniforms of German prisoners of war in Canadian camps of the Second World War era."
    At the end of the Section 15, Offred is found that she keep making appointments with the commander,and is helped by Nick, who maybe belongs to "May day". According to the historical part, we can see that Offred is out successfully.
    Also, in the last part of the book, Nick and Offred at last fall in love with each other, but they never point it out, because in Gilead, it is illegal. However, when Offred is in trouble, Nick still try his best to help her out, for they believe that Offred has already had his baby and he dear the relationship between Offred and him be exposed. Here, I think Nick is a kind of selfish person. Though, he considers Offred as well, I think the motivation of him to save Offred is that he want to save him kid, and do not want to lose his job. So, I think he is a selfish people.

Response to the Forth Part of the Handmaid's Tale

In the forth part of the book the Handmaid's Tale, a lot of unexpected plots appears. In the ceremony, Offred says that she thinks love is important in their day-to-day life. It is unbelievable for a woman to say a such word in that society, even Offred has communicated this topic with her commander. When the ceremony is over, Ofglen asks Offred whether she is making appointments with her commander. I am confused here. The appointments between Offred and her commander is a secret, but how can Ofglen say "We know you're seeing him alone."

    In the following chapters, the commander even takes Offred to a club, where they meet Moira. In the toilet of the club, Moira tells Offred how she came to the club, a lot of Quakers helped her to hid in their house. However, she was still caught when she nearly left the country successfully, and was took to the club where is called Jezebel's. 

    There is another unexpected plot. The wife of the commander should talk to Offred, and told her that she can be pregnant with Nick. This is also not allowed in that society. But a lot of wives of commanders choose this way to let the handmaids be pregnant. Though wives of commanders have a lot of rights to ask their handmaids do anything for them, I think it is not fair to push the handmaids to do everything, no matter it is good or bad, even, the wife of the commander uses the photo of Offred's daughter to threaten her. In the wife's mind, the handmaids are just a tool for her family to get a child, so they do not need any respect.

Response to the Handmaid's Tale (Part 3)

The third part of the Handmaid's Tale describes the process that Janine gives birth to the commander in detail. Also, in this part, Offred tells a lot of things between the commander and her and the happy life before her was caught. 

    It is unexpected that there are so many people there to help Janine give a birth to the baby. What surprises me a lot is that there are a lot of people singing and read poetry around the bed capacity. However, everything is also reasonable at that times. At that times, people desire to have a normal baby, for there are too many pollution causing the organs of babies being in the wrong positions. So that, everyone hopes that the new baby would be a normal and cute baby, and improve the birth rate.

    In the section nine, Offred mentions that the relationship between commander and her is changed. They begin making appointments secretly. The commander knows that it is not allowed to make appointments with a handmaid, but he continues to do so, and even asks Offred gives him a kiss when she leaving. In the before part, Offred mentions that the wife of commander always knitting in her room. Also, in their daily life, commander and his wife do not have a lot communications. This makes the commander feels lonely and pushes him to find a person who he can talk to and change his boring life. As a handmaid, Offred has to follow the commander and her wife's order, and she can speak a lot during the appointments, which makes her happy and not as depressive as before. Hence, even though they know making appointments with each other is illegal, they never stop.