The Giver is set in a futuristic dystopian/ utopian society. All actions and events are expressed through his eyes. The entire book is told in third person whose point of view is limited to what the main character (Jonas) sees. Overall the book was very interesting it keeps you wondering what will happen next. I would definitely recommend this book to other people because you get to see how those women was living especially if you are a women see what a hard life they had. Although Offred was probably one of the few ones to really experience the harassments because she was able to produce kids rather than the ones who couldn’t she was still below the rest which was the sad part. Living in her day in age was a hard life for women because they got treated very badly. I like how the author went into details describing Offred life as a women. My Opinion- I think the handmaids tale was a great book. The women in the house are the ones who can have children so they are force to sleep around with their masters so they can make babies. She lives with her master name Fred as well with a few other women. Summary- The Handmaids tell is a autobiography told by the narrator Offred. When Atwood writes she likes to talk about romance, and mystery things she really want you to wonder about what will happen next. Which talks about two sisters an one of them dies they believe it was a suicide but the other sister tries to figure it out. The author didn’t compare it to any other work because it was something that actually happened to the person that was telling the storyĪuthor- The author is Margaret Atwood, Atwood as wrote previous books such as The Blind Assassin. Genre- The genre of the book is autobiography narrative. The men in the story would sleep around with the women who are able to reproduce so they can have children, but once they are done with them and get what they want out of it they just treat them bad. Theme- The overall theme is using women bodies as a source of being in control. The women had to do certain things or be sent away. The setting influence the plot of the book because back in the day the people in the city had to obey the rules or suffer the consequences which is how the story take place. Setting-The Handmaids Tale took place in 1986 a place called Gilead in North America. The narrator was a reliable source of information because she was the one telling the story. Narration-The Handmaids Tale narrated by Offred was written in an autobiographical narrative. Posted November 2, 2017, by Kimayah Abbott Follow Katniss through her epic adventure to see if she made it through. She then has to play the game and follow rules as given to her to survive and come out as the winner. The Hunger Games is a fiction novel that takes place in Panem, Katniss Everdeen is from district 12 and is chosen to play the game by a rich woman. The previous work doesn’t have much in common to the hunger games other than that they’re both fiction novels. Suzanne Collins has also wrote previous novels such as The Under-land Chronicles which is about people hundreds of years ago who traveled below as creatures such as rats, cockroaches, bats, etc, but her main piece of work is the hunger games. The author of the book is Suzanne Collins. This book compares to any other book in this field because it just isn’t real, it is something you imagine and was written about just because of the simple fact that it was written in the future as claimed. The genre of this book would be a Fiction book. The rich basically rule and have fun while the poor have to be put through a game, be played with, struggle, and have their life at risk. The overall theme of the book is to show the difference between the rich and the poor. The setting influenced the book in general because the setting was more like the actual part of the game, which caused the setting to be the biggest contributor of the novel. As of where it actually took place, it was set in “Panem” where its supposed to be the country after the governments of North America had fell apart. The setting in the book, “The Hunger Games, Catching Fire” is supposed to be seen as a futuristic setting in the far future. The narrator was a reliable source of information because she was the one who wrote the book to begin with. The Hunger Games, Catching fire is narrated by Katniss Everdeen. Source: Scholastic Press, New York, 2009. Published By Scholastic Press, New York, 2009. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
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