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Title: Summary of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Subtitle: Concise and Succinct EasySummaries

Author: EasySummaries Books

Narrator: Elisabeth Lagelee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-17

Publisher: EasySummaries Books

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Note: This is an unofficial summary and analysis of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. This summary and analysis is not endorsed by or affiliated with Margaret Atwood.

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The narrator of the book is an unnamed woman throughout the length of the novel. In the start of the book, the narrator is kept inside a high school's gymnasium (The Rachel and Leah Center, informally known as The Red Center) and several other females are also there. Aunt Elizabeth and Aunt Sara serve as guards and discipline them. While these two utilize cattle prods to intimidate, other guards possess guns. The women have to stay in the gym except for the walks they are allowed to take twice a day. The school's field is shielded by barbed wire and male guards known as Angels.

The women are forbidden from talking among themselves and exchange names via lip-reading. Subsequently, the narrator is inside a room that is white and scarcely furnished. The room does not contain anything that can be utilized as a weapon. As she hears a bell, the narrator changes into red attire engulfing her entire frame. A shade covers her face. She descends the stairs with her shopping basket. The narrator enters the kitchen and receives some tokens from Rita, the cook. Rita is a 'Martha' and dressed in green. The name of the cleaner is Cora. The narrator wants to have conversations with the two like they do with each other but the Marthas are not supposed to have conversations with her kind. She remembers Luke. Rita orders the narrator to go to the market.

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Members Reviews:

Minimalist treatment at best.

Just wanted an idea of what it was about and it barely supplied that. I think it was a waste of money.

The Handmaid's Tale

I haven't finised reading the book yet but it is really the worse nightmare a modern woman could live through. All the progress and rights women have wored for so hard, and won taken away from her, not allowed to read write, to vote, have a job, those who can bear children can not raise them. The only privelege is male priveledge, men onlu have rights, everything is decided for the women by a few rich old men. Who are the only ones who can have sex with the hand maidens. It is horrible and scary. What's worse it is possible.

A scary future, an easy read.

After hearing about the show and this boon I was interested in reading it , especially as everyone was talking about it. Easysummaries made it possible to read the book and talk about it without taking all that time. The book is a scary look into a bleak future for women. Easysummaries kept the main vibe of the world in its summary. I was able ti learn all the names and important parts. Hopefully this future never comes to pass.

Very Useful

I used this as a supplemental guide for my book club. It was orderly, concise and helpful to me as I prepared my presentation for my club.

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