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The Handmaid's Tale

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The prologue foreshadows some of the book’s possible key points in an interesting way; it talks through the pages, directly at the reader, making it hard to miss them. In this way, the prologue not only gets some important information across, but it also helps put the individual into that time period, an encounter that would otherwise be avoided, as many readers like to keep a distance from books’ events so that the experience doesn’t seem too real or emotional. The text explains how it’s important to keep your health, to know that at least you have something and so giving up is not an option, meaning that the people who want to stay alive are most likely to end up that way, both because they are willing to pay, but mostly because they have
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