Context: Right now, at this precise moment, Offred is fulfilling her duties of getting the groceries for the Commander’s household, but with an addition of having to go with another assigned handmaid, Ofglen. Long story short, because the handmaids can cause trouble to those in power, they are subjected to have “watchers”; watchers, whom are hidden as other handmaids. This constant intimidation spooks Offred into being extremely wary of Ofglen’s true intentions, so much as that she decides in the end, that she will play the part of being a “true believer”. This troll becomes the first of many, where they venture out to different food markets and catch the attention of desperate untouched men.

Context: During one of the many walks Ofglen …show more content…
Both of these authors effectively used symbols to portrayed to their readers the tragic events that their main characters were facing (in the case of Elie Wiesel, it what he, himself was facing). For instance, Margaret Atwood, used the fearful Wall, as to give the depiction of the terror that the people in the Republic of Gilead were facing. Terror, that was given the notion that if you go against authority, you know what’s coming. This horrific Wall would avoid any hope of trying to escape. Unlike The Handmaid’s Tale’s Wall, which was fiction, in the novel, Night, they truly had gates that were electrically modified to stop individuals from escaping. In other words, if any prisoner (unfortunately, it was as if you were one) were to escape, they would’ve gotten electrocuted. Nonetheless, their only option was to suffer the harsh and inhumane treatment or kill yourself with pride. Through both of these accounts, we can still see real or fiction, the true evils that can be reached. The evils that are always upon us and would go over anything or anyone as long as they find themselves