Book Talk!
We did book talks as part of our Information Services for Young Adults class. Here is mine on Youtube!
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The Handmaid's Tale : Graphic Novel and Novel
Comparing and Contrasting the theme of Independence in the Handmaid's Tale novel and graphic novel for young adults. From my class Information Needs of Young Adults Independence, Handmaids, and Teens The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986/1998) was first published in 1986, after the gains of the 1960s and 1970s feminism had subsided (Neuman, 2006). In this time when feminism was under attack (Neuman, 2006, p. 859), Margaret Atwood (1986/1998) clearly saw trouble because The Handmaid’s Tale paints a terrible future for women at the hands of the new Gilead government. Most notably, Atwood’s (1986/1998) post-United States Gilead stripped all women of any independence; they have strictly assigned roles to perform complete with uniforms, with the handmaids’ lives being the most curtailed as they are treated as silent, walking wombs. The idea of independence as being something wanted but not had could attract teen readers to Offred’s tale. Although Offred’s story is an extr