The Handmaid's Tale - 1

"The Handmaid's Tale" is a very scary view of a future that could happen to all of us. We are all able to lose our freedom and chooses just as easy as someone coming to our house and taking it from us. I pray that the conscience of our society will keep our society from ever evolving into the backward world that this book describes where the women go back to the way things were so many years ago. Women had to fight for the right to own property, learn to read, have a lob, and to have the basic right to vote. In this book all of these rights are removed for the women with no say from the women. The men do also lose so of their rights that are so basic that no one would have ever thought those would be taken away from them. I feel that this book shows us that even the most basic of rights need to be protected and fought for because once one is taken, how long before the rest of them will be taken from us as a society?