... , the grandmother seems to perceive that evil comes in pretty packages. This can be noticed in the statement, "...trees [that] were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled."" Perhaps one of the most noticeable ironies O'Connor utilizes is in the grandmother's statement "In ... case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady."" For surly the grandmother does not actually expect to be found dead by the road. This ... one of the first features a reader will pick up on. O'Connor's use of foreshadowing in this story is ...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5

... Offred's thought process isn't really all that stable; for example a removed light fixture is described as being "like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out." Other examples of this are describing a Guardian of the Faith's face as "unwholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab" and ... Wife herself is described as having a chin "clenched like a fist". Further on in the book, when Moira has been violently punished for faking an illness; "... she could not walk for a week... They looked like drowned feet, swollen and boneless, except for the color. They looked like lungs....

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... raises his head and stares at the moon, all he will see is the light coming straight from it. Little does he know that the bright eye catching moonshine that he, is staring at is only a reflection from the sun. Without the sun's rays, the moon would not be able to ... their senses; the chains that were once secured on these prisoners symbolize humans' senses. The author is trying to show how human ignorance leads to an inaccurate comprehension of the information that is presented to them. The author is making a direct comparison with the prisoners down in the cave with humans ... Altho...

• Word Count: 1811
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School