“We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy as a mother who dominates her younger son and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors.” And through these lovingly recounted stories-wildly comic or heartbreakingly tragic-we discover the hope against hope upon which every family must sometimes rely.” … Alexander is sustained by a family history that seems to run through his veins. “Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.” If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. “The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.

When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try to win them and, consequently, the reader, over.”Ģ) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood “Everyone’s favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. Classics and Modern Classicsġ) Anne of Green Gables by L.M.

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