English+Language+Arts+A30A

English Language Arts A30A
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 * Margaret Atwood || Mordecai Richler || Lenard Cohen ||




 * =====English Language Arts===== ||  || =====links===== ||
 * [[image:bakken-english-language-arts/Stone.jpg width="273" height="83"]] || =====Novel: //The Stone Angel//===== ||  ||
 * [[image:bakken-english-language-arts/the-book-of-negroes.jpg width="271" height="276"]] || =====Novel: //The Book of Negroes//===== ||  ||
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**GILEAD'S SOCIETAL RANKINGS:** //MEN://1. **Commanders**-Commanders are the highest-ranking officials in Gilead. Though it is implied that most of them are elderly and sterile, they are the only men entitled to handmaids. 2. **Angels**-Angels are revered soldiers. They are responsible for fighting wars against outlaws, particularly Quakers, Catholics and Jews. Most Angels are very eligible for promotion to Commander status and obtaining handmaids. 3. **Eyes-**Eyes are responsible for detecting and swiftly eliminating any subversive activity within the Republic of Gilead. They also have ties to foreign policy. 4. **Guardians**-Guardians are multi-purpose, low-ranking men. Most of them are still in their early-to-mid-teens. Many of the younger Guardians keep peace in the streets, carrying machine guns and shooting suspicious individuals, but some Guardians, like Nick, serve more menial purposes such as washing cars for Commanders. //WOMEN:// 1. **Aunts** -Aunts are older, postmenopausal or infertile women responsible for training handmaids at the Rachel and Leah Center (called the Red Center). Being an Aunt is the highest authoritative rank a woman can achieve in Gilead. Aunts wear brown dresses. 2. ** Wives- **Wives are high-society, infertile women. Though they are forbidden from actual sexual relations with their husbands, they must complete all sexual and childbearing rituals beside the handmaids--they must lie underneath them while they have sex and sit in the birthing chair while the handmaid gives birth. Wives receive all credit for what a handmaid achieves. They wear blue. 3. ** Handmaids- **Handmaids are the few remaining fertile women in Gilead. They are responsible for bearing children to Commanders. If they do not conceive after six years, they are declared Unwomen and sent to the Colonies. Although they engage in sexual relations with the Commanders, they are forbidden from being emotionally connected to the rest of the household. While handmaids are scorned by Wives, they are highly valued since their fertility is considered a "national resource". Handmaids wear red dresses with white wings on their heads which blind their peripheral vision. 4. ** Daughters- **Daughters are young, high-society girls raised in Gilead. They are married to Angels, Guardians and Commanders in large, group weddings called Prayvaganzas. Until they are married, daughters wear white with braided hair. 5.** Marthas **-Marthas are infertile women who serve as servants in the households of Commanders. They wear green. 5. ** Econowives **-Econowives are the fertile wives of impoverished, low-ranking men. Dueto their economic status, they must complete the tasks of Marthas, handmaids and wives.Their garments are striped with red, green and blue. 6. **Unwomen and** **Jezebels** -Jezebels are prostitutes who work at Jezebel's, a government-sanctioned gentleman's club used as a meeting place for foreign ambassadors and Commanders. Offred's lesbian friend from college, Moira, is a Jezebel. Unwomen are outlaws, fertile women who refuse to become handmaids, and Jezebels who can no longer carry on their sexual duties. They are sent to the Colonies, work camps where they must work with nuclear waste. Offred's mother, a 1960s feminist activist, becomes an Unwoman after the Gileadean believers overthrow Congress. ||
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