Cam’s Reviews > The Handmaid’s Tale > Status Update

June and Ofglen walk by the wall. June tells the story of why these men are on the wall. Some weee nurses, and others were doctors. They performed abortions. Hospitals, before Gilead took over, attempted to destroy records to try and protect the doctors. Ofglen started crying while walking by the wall. June said she wouldn’t have given that away.

June and Ofglen arrive to a store. Stores don’t have names anymore, only signs. There is a pregnant handmaid there, her name is Janine. June pieces it together that Janine is there to show off because, pregnant handmaids don’t have to go out like the others. She notes that other handmaids have killed pregnant ones. Tourists from Japan are in town, they ask June and Ofglen if they are happy, June responds with yes

June and Nick had their first interaction, Nick whistled at her as she was walking in the back yard. She had talked about how he hasn’t been assigned a woman. Her walking partner was replaced by Ofglen. Cora and Rita discussed guards accidentally killing a Martha because they thought she was grabbing a bomb. June speaks of teasing the guards with her body, because that’s the only power she has currently.

In the few pages I ready tonight, “June” described her relationship with the Martha, Rita. How they would sit and chat about aches and body pains. But I sensed there was an understanding between them about the situation. She also described arriving the commanders house, how the wife was short with her, and she realized that she had seen the wife before, on the TV before everything happened.

This book is super good so far. June describes the situation with reminders of what the rooms formerly were. How the Handmaids dress in all read, wear wings to hide their face. Anything that could be tied to, like a chandelier, gone. Rita, the Martha wears a faint green, mirrors are basically gone.