In this section, Offred, the main character narrates mainly the restrictions that the handmaid's had. For example, the windows can just open partly, their hands were folded, they didn´t had luxuries or the liberty to choose what clothes to wear, Handmaids were clothing made almost entirely of red, they have to use everyday a ankle-length skirt, and a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, also it was necessary to use ´´white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen´´ In the sitting room handmaid's can't sit they just kneel.

Personally, the most shocking restriction is that the handmaids couldn't go outside everyday, they were assigned just one day to go shopping, they always had the company of other handmaids. Also, they weren't allowed to read. These two limitations are the most to follow, because I think that reading is important in order to be independent, and have my own thoughts, also I can´t never imagine myself just going outside and being monitored If I made something illegal in Gilleads rules.

On the other hand, this generates an effect on the reader that not everything she's telling is true, for example, when she narrates her memories before Gillead her mind might twist them  so she can attach to them in order to control her emotions in the suffering she´s living. Furthermore She gives tons of rhetorical questions along the novel that quativate your intrigue about certain details that make you continue reading. For example: ´´Angel makers, they used to call them; or was that something else?´´ ´´She's in good hands, they said. With people who are fit. You are unfit, but you want the best of her. Don't you?´´

Gillead is a nation where people make favorable decisions, men are never going to be wrong, so I don't trust the doctor. I think of him as a deplorable character because I consider him a rapist. The doctor wants to sleep with Offred with the excuse that Commander Fred is sterile, and if she doesn't get pregnant it will be her fault, so the doctor offers her his ´´help´´. I think that if she really care about her, he would help her escaping from Gillead, but apparently that is not the case, I can infer that the doctor feels safe or satisfied in exercising his profession, because he can take advantage on the difficult life that women are living and rape them.

If I were in Offred's position, I would immediately say no in the most careful and gentle way, also I will started to empathize with him, because there were high possibilities that the doctor falsificate medical exams indicating that I might have a mortal disease, sending me to the unwomen

In Gilead, or in real life, a government wants to control the society, they want power, the majority of them are unfair and corrupt, and they can obtain this when they forbid several types of liberty in people. When the government gives these long stretches of nothingness to people, they control the society, because no one is seeing the government actions, and because of these long stretches people do not take action or place in a government.

Serena´s position is sad, but I sympathize more with Offred, I think that the ceremony is worst with her because she's losing her privacy in front of a man that she didn't know, she´s being raping by a men in front of a women, just to get pregnant and give her children to them. She knows that this action is not love, but she doesn't have any choice, she just needs to do it if she wants to stay alive, if Offred refuses to participate in this ceremony, she will be sent to the unwomen to die. I can infer that in this chapter, handmaids are seen as objects or containers. There only use is to carry a child, or to use handmaids to please their commanders  and keep them content

Also there is more evidence that she is not a reliable narrator. For example: ´´The story passed among us that night, in the semidarkness, under our breath, from bed to bed´´(page 133) Offred is narrating how Moira ran away from the Red Center. We can't trust this narration because Offred is just telling us gossips that she hear from other women.

On the other hand the hourglass has another significance, and a specific association with hope. The Father of Time, also known as the Grim Reaper is represented with a long beard and hair carrying a scythe, he is in charge to end life. Hourglass symbols are associated with him. I can infer that this clock marks the time which brings the dead people closer to heaven. This is associated with hope because, is important that the dead and living people have hope or faith, that this dead person find peace.

Hope is a main theme in this novel. Hope plays an important role in Offred's existence because this hope that she is going to escape from Gillead is what keeps her motivated. Although, hope can also be seen as an Offred´s method to escape from reality and imagine good situations.

Not being yourself in the outside world because of a broken society that believes that men need to be seen as a strong figure is difficult. Also, the mistress suffered the consequences because everyone believed that she had feelings for a bad man.

I feel sorry for the mistress, but I consider that this man  as a supervisor of an Nazi concentration camp  killed a lot of jews in Oven, and all of this was supervised by HIM. If he really wasn't a monster, he would find strategies to run away with the mistress or find other solutions. A good man would never work in a Nazi concentration camp