Chapter 30

Question 1

The scent from the garden rises like heat from a body, there must be night-blooming flowers, it’s so strong. I can almost see it, red radiation, wavering upwards like the shimmer above Highway tarmac at noon

Answer 1

Fertility

Olfactory

Question 2

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. Nick. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lure. But it’s the same kind of hunger

Answer 2

Comical

Focussed

Emphasises need for intimacy

Question 3

Offered remembers her last with Luke and killing pet

Answer 3

I’ll take of of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill.’

Removes any identity with the car like how they remove identity from handmaid

Question 4

Offred begins to pray

How she prays, thought and feelings

Who does she address

Answer 4

‘My God’ - possessive pronoun

‘I don’t even close my eyes’ - relationship with him

‘Don’t worry about forgiving me… more important things’