The Handmaid's Tale: A Narrative Fiction

There was a shot fired. The Native fell back onto the ground as the others watched in horror. It wasn’t long before an all out battle was taking place. The scent of gunpowder filled the air, natives were swinging fists on soldiers and taking weapons back from the wagon. The horses were fleeing the scene, galloping as fast as they could.

The militia members assured the emigrants they were protected and escorted them from the hasty fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attached the emigrants and killed all of them that they thought were old enough to be potential witnesses to report the attack.

muzzles [the front of the muskets] of the pieces, and seemed to be endeavoring to close with

I saw Doc Conover swinging a long rifle like a club at a woman who was down on her knees, covering her head with both arms. Then I saw a

Late that morning, he received news that General Zhousbek had arrived and directed the guard to surreptitiously escort him to the throne room. Pleased at how fast General Zhousbek had responded to his summons, he entered the room to find the guard and General Zhousbek already waiting, and after guard’s formal introduction, ordered the guard out.

Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States. With such a significant percentage of the population (68.8% of Americans are overweight or obese) dealing with weight issues and with food marketing pushing cheap, fast food options, Americans are suffering from serious health consequences.

Finally they had arrived and they has eatons range with them and we jumped out in front of them. A indian man named toopapyti was face to face with mcallister with a gun to his head. Then toopapyti fired three shots out of his gun two hitting mcallister, the other one hitting connell. Mcallister was dead immediately and connell died soon after. Connells range and the rest of the militia escaped into a longhouse. Clipwalen was trying to report the deaths of connell and mcallister. But me and my two other brothers were hiding in a bush and found him and, confronted him. One of the law people shot my brother and he died. From that moment we knew that the battle has begun. We surrounded the longhouse that we found with the militia and eatons range inside. We shot with our arrows, guns, and other weapons. We shot until 4:00 am on october

Thirty men were at the boat harbor; they could see two of our houses from that distance. We wouldn’t want them to watch us, therefore we ran away. On December 7th at midnight we prepared to attack them. They must have heard us because they shot two of their rifles, however, they didn’t seem to think they were in much danger, because they then went to sleep. They awoke at five in the morning and began carrying weapons to their boat; four of them left their weapons on the bank side. At that moment we decided to strike, we began firing our arrows whilst, those four pilgrims ran to retrieve their rifles. Others ran to their ship, which we went after, whilst men wearing metal coats and carrying cutlasses, ran out of the rendezvous.

As soon as I had gotten off the ship, the villagers started coming back, holding swords and muskets. My crew and I knew they were ready to defend their island. However, some men couldn’t hold up their guns, they were so weak. But, ignoring their weaknesses, the tallest villager, who must have been the leader, let out a loud battle cry. They ran to our crew, weapons in hand. My crew took out their weapons and charged.

Parents typically don’t want their children reading in depth books about sex; however, The Handmaid’s Tale offers great fictional examples that teach sexism and the mistreatment of women, yet these examples can lead some in the wrong way. Therefore depending on the view in society, The Handmaid’s tale should be banned or kept to certain areas of the world because of the unfair treatment of women.

The din was frightful. Billie was crying as usual. Dave and Sol-leks, dripping with blood from a score of wounds, were fighting bravely side by side. Joe was snapping like a demon. Once, his teeth closed on the foreleg of a husky, and he crunched down through the bone. Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick dash of teeth and a jerk. Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness. He flung himself upon another, and at the same time felt teeth sink into his own throat. It was Spitz treacherously attacking from the side.”

The troops began to assemble the weapons they can find. And we begin marching again. We had marched very far all through the night. Then I had heard something from the East. "what was that???" I yelled.

Samuel Johnson, a British author, once stated, “To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution”. While ambition is extremely crucial to everyone’s goals, it is important to know when boundaries need to be put in place. This touches base with Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” character of Macbeth. With ambition being a very strong suit of him, he also does not know where to set his own boundaries. Because of his choices, Macbeth is responsible for his own fate.

Moreland (2007) used the "empty self" (p. 141) as a description of a life filled with things and experiences as opposed to a life rooted in Christ and living for the Kingdom. Thanks be to God I had a life rooted in Christ modeled by my parents who served the Lord as missionaries and pastored small churches. From my youth I have known the importance of Biblical Principle # 16 "Love and kindness function to destroy the basis of anger, resentment, and other negative dispositions" (Cox, n.d., p. 1). As a pastor's kid I had to learn to live by 1 Corinthians 13 which calls us to place love for others above all other spiritual gifts. This was especially the case in times where the church was in conflict and anger boiled over into relationships.

the crowed was rushed by a group of senators armed with clubs. “More than three hundred were slain by blows