https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl Breaking down chapter 9 en-us 2021-03-29 16:47:41 UTC 2026-02-25 02:34:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364901350 "I know why the glass in the window is shatterproof, and why they took down the chandlier" (52)]]> 2021-03-29 16:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364901350 mrenwick1467 https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364910157 "Still, it was a message, and it was in writing, forbidden by that very fact, and it hadn't yet been discovered. Except by me, for whom it was intended. It was intended for whoever came came next" (52)
Later on in the text, Offred notices when she reads the text that it gives her joy. The forbidden message allows Offred to connect with her past, and connects with her old friend Moira.

]]> 2021-03-29 16:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364910157 https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364920418 "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" (52) Don't let the bastards grind you down]]> 2021-03-29 16:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364920418 https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364935951 "We would lie in those afternoon beds, afterwards, hands on each other, talking it over. Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? (51)." ]]> 2021-03-29 16:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364935951 https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364952460 "The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now. When I saw that, the evidence left by two people, of love or something like it, desire at least, at least touch, between two people now perhaps old or dead, I covered the bed again and lay down on it" (52). ]]> 2021-03-29 17:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364952460 https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364962147 1. What is the significance of the written message in Latin? ("Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" (52) Translation: "Don't let the bastards grind you down".)
2. What is the effect of characterizing the handmaids as children? ("I an like a child here, there are some things I must not be told" (53).)
3. Why is Offred always talking about the past? Is that her way of coping with the life she has now?]]> 2021-03-29 17:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mrenwick1467/gm3wvtelqndpgtyl/wish/1364962147