The Handmaids Tale
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First, how does she recover?
Her quick-thinking friends hustle her off to a secure building (?)
that comes equipped with a curling iron, a feminine token deployed as a makeshift cauterizing tool.
Imagine what Junes bra-burning mother would make of that $34.99 barrel wand from Ulta saving her daughters life.
By the time they wander up to the farms gates, Junes depleted body cant take much more.
Really, who can blame her?
Its no surprise that she hears the wordsYoure safeand keels over.
(Im all for a rehashing of judicial systems and prisons, but this is a bit much.
The Hague as Aman Spa.)
together (??)
without lawyers present (???
Fred raises his brow a lot.
In the meantime, he is appointed the liaison to Lawrence.
), Lawrence was kept from his.
How did it go?
Well, Nick is just there to thank him for his service to Gilead.
In other words, Lawrence is a dead man.
Except he has a bargaining chip.
Lawrence was always able to live outside the typical parameters of a Gileadean man.
Congrats, Commander Lawrence!
Aunt Lydia hasnt been quite so lucky.
(This is a fair assessment!)
So lets talk about where exactly June has wandered off to.
Shes impatient for revenge, and after this many seasons, I cant exactly blame her.
Mrs. Keyess assertions of power are actually jolts of anger.
I think God is just, and he is going to make those men pay, she seethes.
I want to hurt them so badly.
She gets her chance.
But June disregards the simpler plan to shoot him and drag him down to the river.
Her own idea is more vicious and fulfilling.
Its also a direct echo of Aunt Lydia.
Girls, she says, this man betrayed his own country, the United States.
And this man raped a child, repeatedly.
The punishment for these crimes is death.
