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Whole lotta gang stuff

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Pg. 16
“I would watch the Growing Souls Gospel Hour, where they would tell Bible Stories for children and sing hymns”

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"smell of the turned earth, the plump shapes of bulbs held in the hands, fullness,the dry rustle of seeds through the fingers

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Pg. 31
"The Wall is hundreds of years old... the gates have sentries..."

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“The modesty costumes worn by the women of Gilead are derived from western religious iconography—the wives wear the blue of purity, from the Virgin Mary” page 17 introduction .

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Pg. 26
"One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly.... She's a magic presence to us."

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Pg. 25
"Lilies of the Field"
Pg. 25.
"Milk and Honey"
Pg. 27
"All Flesh"

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Pg.12
"Many of the wives have such gardens, it's something for them to order and maintain and care for."

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Gang! Gang!

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Pg. 32
The bodies hanging on the wall alludes to Jesus hanging on the cross

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"My hand goes down, how about that, i could unbutton, and then. But it's too dangerous, he knows it....It's so good to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily."

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Pg.43 " There are three new bodies on the wall"

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Pg.12
"I once had a garden. I can remember the smell of the turned earth, the plump shapes of bulbs held in the hands, fullness, the dry rustle of seeds through the fingers

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"I want to reach up, taste his skin, he makes me hungry"
Pg 97

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Pg. 23
"The Republic of Gilead" refers to Hosea 6:8 "Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood."

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Pg. 88 "it's the usual story, the usual stories. God to Adam, god to Noah. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Then comes the moldy old Rachel and Leah stuff."

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Pg. 21

"Commanders of the faithful in their long black murmurmous cars, or their blue wives and white-veiled daughters or their dutiful way to Salvingings Prayvaganzas ir dumpy green Marthas or red handmaides"

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Pg.19
"Blessed be the fruit." This refers to the "Gift" that the day is As was the gift of the apple in the garden of Eden. As is already apparent the Republic of Gilead is trying to replicate.