"First Impressions"

   After reading the first few chapters of the book, the author has caught my attention.  I personally enjoyed the beginning of the book because it was different than regular stories these days. The book has a flare to it because it is old-fasioned. The first few chapters revealed a lot for the reader. Margaret Atwood introduces the main character, Offred, in the first chapter of the book. Offred, the narrator of the novel, has an interesting role. Offred has purpose to be in the play for a list of reasons. For instance, Offred is in the house due to the sexual benefits she offers. The first chapter offers insight into her living conditions. She sleeps on a cot with several other females on the gymnasium floor. The cots they sleep on are the same cots that the old army members slept on. I found it interesting how they all sleep on the cots in the gym because it shows how awful their living conditions were and how poorly they were treated. The fact they were not even given real beds to sleep in shows how they were barely treated as people because their "owners" could care less about where they rested their heads at night. To continue, throughout chapters one, two, and three, several other characters were introduced to allow different roles to be placed into the novel. The characters are all given code names to match with their role. For example, "Marthas" was the nickname for house servants. The armed, patrol gaurds were known as "Angels". I am excited to read more in order to uncover other hidden characters that lie in the book, and read more about Offred's story.