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Post by sgalle on May 17, 2010 11:06:16 GMT -5
Who is the character you like the most? Why? Describe that character and your response to him/her.
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Who is the character you like the least? Why? Describe that character and your response to him/her.
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Post by joaquin on Aug 20, 2010 23:30:10 GMT -5
The character I like the least in the book The Handmaid’s Tale is Serena Joy. I believe she thought she was superior than the rest of the women and instead of giving a hand to the ones in trouble, she gave them her back and treated them insignificantly. She was desperate to have a child and because she couldn’t have one, she waited anxiously for a handmaid to get pregnant. Her main problem was that in a society were women are seen as objects and only valued if their ovaries are viable, a female with little of power like Serena Joy should have done something about this conflict. Instead of suppressing the handmaids as she did, she should have understand their necessities and pains and try to change things for her own benefit and of and all the women in her household. In this case women should have united and fight against the injustices present in the society of Gilead, but this is not possible if women like Serena Joy treat other females in a negative and suppressive way. A bond can’t be formed between them and they remain separate and with few chances of changing things. Serena Joy contributed to this separation, and instead of fixing things, she even created rivalries between women. Serena Joy was the character I liked the least for her way of treating the handmaids and also for her jealous and suppressive personality. Therefore, Margaret Atwood did an excellent job by creating this character in a way in which the reader gets a feeling of dislike towards her.
Joaquin Espinosa 11th
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Post by eliza on Aug 24, 2010 21:01:32 GMT -5
The character I like the most is Moira because she is a woman with inner strength and decision even in the times of despair. She is strong willed and has a tough character. This helps her escape the regiment in order to attempt to follow her principals and most of all her freedom, which is a luxury during this time, and to women especially. She is able to escape from the red center, during her second attempt, and cross the eyes of the guardians on foot due to her disguise. She lives underground with lacking resources and hidden for many months to reach freedom. She is one of the few persons who gather enough courage to risk her live and integrity in order to escape from a place where women are treated as useful tools to reproduce only. In the end she’s caught but isn’t sent back to the community but a kind of a gentlemen’s nightclub instead where she stays, and sort of gives up her goal. In any case I like that this character because she has shown to be stronger than the others, and is willing to go the distance, but in the end she shows her human weakness after she has tried a number of times to escape. ELIZA BURBANO; 11th Grade International
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Post by david valencia on Aug 27, 2010 14:16:11 GMT -5
In the book The Handmaid's Tale there is a lot to talk about characters and their aspects, but the character i liked the most is Offred, the main character. She narrates the novel and so the book is being told from her point of view which i like because she is a clever character that not only tells us the events that are going but she expresses them by already analyzing them. What i like about her aspects as the main character is that she has a sense of humor that can be bad, but it makes Gilead a better place with more joy. Offred is a kind character, she has earned the affection of The Commander, and she is the only one that has the affection of the Commander. Although she is not the typical main character, the author Margaret Atwood created a character that is un-selfish, kind and bright, but in the other hand she is not the type of person that will be the hero at the end of the story, and this makes her a normal human being. She is the average woman who is set in a place with unordinary events and situations. She is a passive character and she is a character that has positive attitude towards the hard life in Gilead, she has a firm inner strength and never lets go.
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Post by maria jose cordova 11 C on Aug 28, 2010 12:41:44 GMT -5
In the book there are many interesting and important characters such as Offred, Moira, the commander and Serena joy. The character that I found more interesting was Nick because since the begging he acted as if he was a good man with Offred. He is a guard form the same house as Offred that’s where Offred and Nick meet. Nick has some attractions towards Offred and Offred towards him. When Offred didn’t got pregnant Serena Joy made nick and Offred to have sexual relations and nick accepted because he had attraction to her. At the end of the novel a car arrives to the commander’s house to arrest Offred because she had committed a crime and invented crime so Offred could be free. Nick could be from the bad side the eyes or from mayday but I think he is from mayday and at the end of the novel he send Offred with her family. Nick is the only person in the commanders house that saw Offred in a different way not only as a Handmaid but also as a women that wasn’t free that didn’t lived her life as she could have lived all the time with her family, he also had sexual attraction to her and maybe he fell In love and I think that’s the reason way he helped Offred escape from that house.
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Post by aaleman on Aug 29, 2010 16:37:14 GMT -5
The character I like the most and admire is Offred's mother. Through out the book we learn that Offred's mother is strong and independent woman. She is not ashamed of being a single parent and fought for what she thinks is right.She did not feel intimidated by authority. Offred often remembers her mother and how she always speaks what is on her mind. Offered informs us of how she has seen her mother in one of the videos at the Red Center, she is protesting against something. It seams that through out the years she has become more calm and conforming with society.When Offred speaks with Moira we learn that Offred's mother is not happy with what is happening in Gilead and decides to leave.This shows that she still does what she wants especially if it is going against male chauvinist authority. Anahi Aleman
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Post by aaleman on Aug 29, 2010 16:52:45 GMT -5
Offred is the character I like the least. She is always thinking "what if I had done this" or " If I did this... then maybe". In my opinion she should stop whining and do something about, she is always saying that she misses her daughter, Luke, Moira and her mother. If it wasn't for The Commander she would not have seen Moira and learned about her mother and thanks to Serena Joy she got the chance to see her daughter at least in a photograph. I think that Offred should try harder to get information and once she has it she should try to escape but since we know she does not have a strong will she should at least try to go to the same place Moira is because there she can get information and be with her friend. Anahi Aleman
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Post by gmolina on Aug 29, 2010 19:30:18 GMT -5
The Handmaid’s Tale includes many interesting characters and each of them has different ways to confront this new Gilead regime that they were forced to live in. To some people the attitudes that some of this characters take are the worst but for others they are the best. In my opinion the character attitude that I preferred the most was Moira, Offred’s best friend from college. She represented those strong women who don’t give up easily, that fight for what they want and don’t let others decide for her. Moira was constantly searching for something better she believed in herself which demonstrate us that there is always hope even in the hardest situations. She established this by escaping from a place she didn’t agree with which was the center even though she knew that if she got caught the consequences were any good. Even though she got very far considering how limited their freedom was at the end she decided to renounce to the freedom she used to know that was before Gilead. In my opinion she should have keep on fighting until she could get out of Gilead but maybe she was too tired to keep on going and thought that was the farthest point she could get to. The last parts that we know about Moira in a way are kind of disappointing because her fighting spirit was broken. Although I think that she was the best character of the whole novel because of all her fighting characteristics. Gabriela Molina 11th grade
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Post by mguerrero on Aug 29, 2010 20:46:32 GMT -5
The character that I liked the most from the novel The Handmaid’s Tale is Moira. Moira was Offred’s best friend before the total settlement of Gilead, when Offred was in college. Moira is a very intolerable person against this utopian society which had changed everyone live in one way or another. Even though she was a lesbian, she felt that the treatment against women in the new Republic of Gilead was inhumane and insignificant, which creates my sympathy and affinity towards Moira. She is a person that don’t give up easily and always question what seems wrong. Moira didn’t accept being a Handmaid so she tried to escape from this totalitarian rule. Eventually she break free from the Red Center but caught in this final attempt which put an end to her life. She tried to fight for her women and human rights which makes her a fighting women and called my attention due to this characteristic of never shutting up. I feel identified by Moira because of her way of seeing things that look out of place or part of the subordinary such as the things that happened to women among this era. Mateo Guerrero 11th Grade
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Post by antonella damone on Aug 29, 2010 21:08:20 GMT -5
Offred, our main character is very peculiar. Throughout the book, she shows a great change in her character, she shows us her brightness, kindness, and how simple she is. She shows a positive attitude towards her situation, and I love how she expresses the events that are happening around her from her point of view with such a description. But what I most realized and what caught my attention in the first half of the book is her appreciation to her husband, Luke. She is always mentioning him, thinking about where he is and how he is. She also dreams about him very often. She once mentions how he will always be her husband and she will always love him, despite the fact that she is having sexual relations with other men. But now I think about the fact that she wasn’t Luke´s first wife. Offred became his mistress and soon they became a married couple. So at the beginning of the novel, she shows a side of faithfulness towards her husband and a wish to go home. This starts to change when Offred has an affair with a guard, Nick. Because Offred did not conceive a child with the Commander, Serena Joy makes Offred and Nick have sexual relations. Both of them accepted the proposal acting as if they did not care, but deeply they were full of joy since both of them had feelings towards each other. This was forbidden, so this makes Offred go into prison. But what was really happening was that Nick had everything planned so that he could free his lover. So she could be with Luke and ran away from this nightmare. At the end we realize that Nick was a character that saw Offred as a real and true person, and not as a reproduction machine or someone inferior to him. Luke did a very brave thing. Even thought he had feelings for her, thanks to him Offred could get home to her husband, and we should appreciate his sacrifice.
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Post by mariemancero on Sept 1, 2010 18:53:53 GMT -5
The character from the novel that I liked the most is Serena Joy. I know that throughout the novel she acted like the perfect wive that followed all of Gilead's rules. However, I think that ignoring the Handmaid's was not what she wanted to do, but yes her duty to be able to live. I think this because the only time that she disrespected Offred was when she found lipstick in her cloak that the commander had let Offred use. In my opinion, any women who would find evidence of cheating might react in the same way; yet, Serena never told on Offred, she still wanted her at her house. The reason why Offred was taken away was because someone else, maybe Nick, told on her, but for her own safety. Serena was patient for many months as she waited for Offred to conceive a baby, but, when she realized that the commander couldn't give her babies, that's when she recurred to Nick. This, maybe, for her own benefit, but I also think she did it because she didn't want Offred to keep on suffering and having the pressure of getting pregnant so she wouldn't be called an unwoman.
María Emilia Mancero
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Post by nathalyrobalino on Aug 27, 2011 22:44:50 GMT -5
The book “The Handmaid’s Tale” has many characters with extremely strong personalities and different roles for the outcome of the book. The character that I like the most is the main character, Offred. I like her because she is a woman that shows a lot of inner strength in order to face the challenging changes that have been imposed to the society, especially to women, after the war. Even though she has lost everything, she keeps fighting in order to survive while she gets pregnant. Her role is to have a baby in order to make happy her Commander and his wife and to save herself. Offred and the Commander’s wife, Serena Joy, realize that Offred is not going to get pregnant because they have been waiting so long. For this reason Offred start to have sex with Nick. At the beginning it is just a thing that has to be made, but later she begins to have feelings for him. She tries not to show these new emotions to anybody especially to the Commander. Offred starts to get used to her new situation because Nick has become a reason to keep living.
Nathaly Robalino
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Post by jmoralse on Aug 29, 2011 23:09:19 GMT -5
My favorite character actually is Offred because there is more information about her of course that is because she is the main character. She has had a rough start i mean leaving her daughter and her husband to become a handmaid but the interesting thing is that she is a fertile woman and only infertile women have those jobs but because of that she is a very important commodity to her reality.I always have a soft spot for the least fortunate and the people who has passed tragedies., but i know that she will get stronger as life pushes her on and on .Her name is SO BAD I mean it simply says that she is the property of fred this power thirsted monster. i also eager to hear more about her and nicks relationship i mean it was oviously forced but it turning into something.
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