Blogging on The Handmaid's Tale

"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze." I think this applies to almost everybody at some point in their lives. Every on is traped or restricted by rules, some more than others but at some point every one is restricted from doing something. It is just up to that person if they want to break the rules and risk the real freedom or live inside the boundries with no hassle. I feel like this is a major turning piont in how people become who they are. Some choose to live freely always doing as they are told and never stepping out of the red line. Others choose to run their lives the way the always choose. No matter what any one esle says, they ar in Charge and they will go to any lengths to keep it like that. Certain examples of this are listening to your parents or your school or even the law. If this rat was born into the maze then there would be no need for it to care about what was on the other side of the maze walls. A rat that once lived a happy life in the world and then was put in this maze would always be looking for a way to get out. Part of the decisions we make is curiosity, and wonder. Unfortunatly I think this book is more about a way of getting back to how things used to be then just searching for something new. I hope Offred tries to escape and she tries to do something with her sorrow rather then just thinking and hoping that one day Luke will come find her. I hope we get to some part of the book where all hell breaks loose. At this point were still getting used to the way she lives, i think it is really weird how together these people are. Like how the wife witnesses the sex and the whole community witnesses the birth of a child. Im not sure i like the society at all. I would raise hell.