Summary Of Quotes From The Handmaid's Tale

In the great desert lived a poor bricklayer with his two children and his wife. A girl named Lupe and a boy named Juan. He had little work and just as little food, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could not afford even daily tortillas. When he thought over this in his bed, and stuck in his anxiety. He said to his wife, "What will become of us? How are we will feed our poor children, when we don't have anything, even for ourselves?" "I'll tell you something, viejo," answered the wife, "tomorrow at the morning, we will take our chamacos out into the desert to where is the part full of cactus and mesquites. There we will ignite a fire for them, and give each of them some burritos, and then we will go to our work, and we will

How I can bear the thought of leave my children alone in the desert? Coyotes would soon come and eat them. "Oh! you are a bruto," said she, "then we must be four the ones that die of hunger, go to cut the boards for our coffins," and she insisted until he consented. "But I feel very sorry for the poor chamacos, all the same," said the husband. The two kids had also are not able to sleep because of hunger, and they had heard what their step-mother had said to their dad. Lupe wept bitter tears, and told Juan: "Now it's over for

John reached down and got the little pocket of his jacket as many as could come. Then he returned and told Lupe, "Be happy, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not abandon us," and lay back on his bed. When it dawned, but before the sun had risen, the wife came and awakened the two children, saying: "Get up, lazy chamacos, and go to the desert to look for firewood." She gave them two burritos, and said. "There is something for dinner, but do not eat until then, that is all they have" Lupe grabbed the burritos, because Juan had the stones in his pocket.Then they set out together inside the desert. When they had walked a short time, Juan was still and looking back at the house, and he did it a lot of times. His dad said, "Juan, what are you looking at there? Pay attention, and don't stop using your legs." "Ah, dad," said Juan, "I am looking at my dog, that is up on the roof, and he wants to say goodbye to me." The wife said, "bruto, that is not your dog, that is the sun which is shining on the roof." Juan, however, had not been looking back because of the dog, but had been constantly throwing one of the quartz stones out of his pocket on the