Hook: Not all women can be treated the same in a dystopian world; only the ones lucky enough to stay in place and do as they are told have a chance of surviving.
Thesis: Margaret Atwood's book, "The Handmaid's Tale" shows us different motifs in her book such as gender roles and to show how social status/gender impacts power structures. Along with fertility and women without children or unable to get punished, killed, or some consequences to harm them and their lives. Showing how women with children get special treatment and are at a higher level than the other girls.
Claim: No matter the role of a woman they should all be treated with a level of respect and kindness not pushed away and tossed aside.
Evidence: “Such wickedness. They were lazy women, she says. They were sluts' ' (chapter 19, pg 113) “I want to see as little of you as possible, she said. I expect you to feel the same way
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Not a single one of them can even truly accept their bodies because it feels as if it’s not truly theirs, like it belongs to someone else rather than them. They all remember life the way it used to be before it got to where it is now yet it’s not a happy memory because they know they’ll never be able to go back to that life and it’s a sad reminder of jealousy knowing things will never be the same, their life, who they are, or their bodies. They see their body but not in a way anyone else can, like hatred, jealousy, and envy of everyone else but not realizing they are all different in a way that makes them more unique.
Claim 3: Freedom is demanded in a society like this, it cannot be asked or given, it is either earned or demanded for no matter the consequences shown to it.
Evidence“Of course, some women believed there would be no future, they thought the world would explode.” (Chapter 19, pg 112) “Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.” (Chapter 22, pg