CHAPTER SUMMARIES Flashcards
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- Memories of training centre at night
- Sets up the dystopian element
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Chapter 2
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- Describes the Commander’s house
- Describes Rita and Cora’s indifference to her
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Chapter 3
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- Describes the garden
- Remembers her first meeting with Commander’s wife and associates her with ‘Serena Joy’
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Chapter 4
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- Sees Nick washing the car
- Walks with Ofglen- make small talk cause she can’t trust her
- Fantasises about seducing a Guardian and holding power over him
- They go through the gate
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Chapter 5
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- Goes into the heart of Gilead
- Remembers Luke in the time before
- Shopping- biblical references with the shop titles
- Sees Ofwarren (Janine) heavily preggo
- Fascinated by Japanese tourists
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Chapter 6
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- Decide to walk home past the church
- Go to the wall
- See the hanging bodies- further insight into horrors of Gilead
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Chapter 7
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- Night time at commanders- arguably where Offred is most authentic
- Remembers how her and Moira used to yap as students
- Remembers her mother burning porn
- First mention of her daughter and how she’s been given away to another family
- Debates the nature and accuracy of her narrative
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