... . She questions whether she lives her current life in order to protect those of her past. She further continues by asking the question, "What do we pray for? We pray for food as all do, and for health and for the increase of our kind.....". The final point Atwood states in determining what it is to be a living creature, above all else, to survive ... her belief of reincarnation and her previous life as a bat is merely a small issue within the writing. Due to the fact that reincarnation is a highly objectionable subject, one must read further into the writing to attain what is inarguable ...

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