https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa Review your reading of Atwood's intro to the book; one review of the Testaments; and the Atlantic article on Elie Wiesel and bearing Witness. For one of these texts, explain what interested you, surprised you, or upset you; add a quote as part of your response, and be clear about which text you're responding to. Please respond to one other person's idea, and link ideas when possible. en-us 2021-04-07 16:42:08 UTC 2021-04-07 20:20:20 UTC hello@padlet.com 2340872 https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393218991 Something that upset me (though not really surprising) was how, to me, both the Testaments and the show make the original story weaker. At the end of The Handmaid's Tale, we really don't know if Offred is actually going to Mayday, or really anything else that will happen to her. In The Testaments, "she has attained almost mythic status in Gilead, where she’s been declared a terrorist and enemy of the state" (NYTimes). Also, the show makes her out to be some sort awesome woman who can do anything and adds all of these other more extreme elements not found in the original book. The original book was meant to be a bit tamer to show how you don't need all of those elements for it to be bad.]]> 2021-04-07 20:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393218991 2341361 https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393219817 What surprised me most was how insensitive people are when they ask Holocaust survivors about their experience. ''It feels like they are saying ''Nice to meet you. I heard you were gang raped, tell me about it'' (Wiesel article 2). I bet I probably would have questioned the survivors as well, and I am glad I know that is extremely insensitive and rude. ]]> 2021-04-07 20:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393219817 234102 https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393220177 One thing which intrested me about the Weisel article is the stories we dont hear. I never really thought about how difficult it is to share these traumatic experiences because all of the speakers i've listened to or authors I've read have done a great job of telling their story so I sort of assumed it was the same for everyone. Even though I knew it was hard to share, I never spent to much time thinking about how hard it is to share.
One quote which shows this is "But not all Holocaust survivors are willing or able to speak of their experiences. I am
intimately familiar with the choice to stay silent. My father was a nine-year-old Jewish boy
when Nazi Germany invaded his native Poland. He was one of the lucky ones, eventually
saved by deportation to Soviet territory where he nearly starved to death in a slave labor
camp." (Friedberg 2).I never really thought about the people whos stories we dont hear. It also find it kind of interesting and upsetting that Friedberg's father who almost starved to death in a slave labor camp is considered "one of the lucky ones".]]> 2021-04-07 20:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393220177 2341491 https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393221818 Something that upset me was the fact that random people would define the narrator’s father by being in the holocaust. These random people do not know the narrator's father but expect him to tell them and relive his painfully traumatic experiences for them. This is a bit ignorant of the person asking the question. “When people I
barely know ask me to tell them what happened to me during the Holocaust, it feels like they
are saying ‘Nice to meet you. I heard you were gang raped, tell me about it.” Friedberg 2). This is seen by that quote because the quote is basically explaining how people want to know about  a person's trauma but do not think of the effects they have by bringing up the question.]]> 2021-04-07 20:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393221818 2342362 https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393229169 In "The Testaments," it surprised me that Offred had become an infamous rebel in Giiead, given the uncertainty and passivity she exhibits in "The Handmaid's Tale." Kakutani writes, "But she has attained almost mythic status in Gilead, where she’s been declared a terrorist and enemy of the state: The regime has already made at least two assassination attempts on her life..." It brings to question exactly what change in mindset Offred underwent during the years between "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments," as well as Atwood's reasoning behind this choice for Offred's character.]]> 2021-04-07 20:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aupson1/bdsdtx3rdv3457xa/wish/1393229169