Janine

Question 1

Chapter 13

Answer 1

context -her initial description/ introduction
‘hair dull blonde, her eyelashes so light they seemed not there … weak, squirmy, blotchy, pink, like a newborn mouse

‘Blotchy’ ‘newborn’ - both connotations with children - idea of infantilization

‘Dull blonde’ adjective phrase - reflection of her mental state - worn down

‘Mouse’ - connotations of vermin, but also vulnerability - accurate representation of how offred views janine

Question 2

Chapter 22

Answer 2

context around the quote - janine at the red centre being psychologically abused by the aunts and other handmaids
‘Like a puppy that’s been kicked too often’ simile - ‘puppy’ vulnerable - loving to everyone - aunts trust her to tell them about moira

‘Broken’ - gilead’s harsh treatment causes them to break (janine)- personification - cannot physically break people - objectification of the handmaid’s - snap them like inanimate objects

‘Shed roll over for anyone’ - metaphor - approbation

Question 3

Chapter 33

Answer 3

context around the quote - Janine has had a baby however it turns out the baby was unhealthy and died, she then goes to a different household - mistreat of handmaids

‘She lost that pregnant glow. Her face is white and peaked, as if the juice is being sucked out of her’ - metaphor for her losing her purpose - ‘juice’ - life

‘not an illness, an emptiness’ - gilead being made to think that was her only purpose after giving birth and it not healthy she is broken - no approbation -her pregnancy was

Question 4

chapter 33

Answer 4

retrospective narrative thinking about Janine’s abuse at the red centre
‘Her eyes were open, but they didn’t see me at all’ - metaphor for Janine being like a shell of a person - eyes also gateway to soul -it’s gone
‘teeth bared in a fixed smile’ - fixed smile concrete noun un natural forced -
‘unwoman’ - moira says that’s what will happen to her if she cannot snap out of it - neologism - dystopia

Question 5

Chapter 43 the particution

Answer 5

context - how Janine plays an active part in the particution of the man accused of raping a handmaid

‘walking as if she’s feeling her way with her feet, in the dark: Janine.’ simile ‘dark’ abstract noun

Shes let go, totally now’ - metaphor after losing her baby and not fulfilling what gilead has told her is a whole and natural purpose she’s lost a hold on herself

‘She gives a small giggle’ - gilead want them to be children as children are easier to manipulate - juxtapose the violence of the particution shows her cant think straight

Question 6

what Offred and other handmaids feel towards janine

Answer 6

later