Comparing The Handmaid's Tale And We All Fall Down

Throughout the novels The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier, the authors have a variety of unique forms by using different vocabulary and storytelling to interrupt their own meaning. For example, in The Handmaid's Tale Atwood uses words such as birth mobile meaning a vehicle to transport handmaids to a birthing and encourage their fellow handmaids. Another example, the novel We All Fall Down, Cormier's form lacks censorship, “Did you touch me when you tied me up? Feel my chest? Eleven- year-old boys don't do that, either" (Cormier 178). Atwood and Cormier techniques allows the reader to be drawn completely into different worlds, and in engaging the reader through their own techniques and has given the

To whomever alcoholism affects the body and life style, drinking for long periods can lead to being dependent on alcohol for all situations or just drinking for the sake of alcohol in the system of the body. In We All Fall Down one of the characters Buddy, "My life's not in danger, I'm not in danger of becoming an alcoholic."(Cormier 78). Alcohol has taken affect on Buddy’s life because the character thinks alcohol is not a danger to life, a character in the novel had the intention of helping Buddy with the situation of being an alcoholic but Buddy is clearly mad at the fact of another character think of Buddy has an alcoholic. Whenever people have problems they do not admit to their fault rather individuals deny the facts and cannot accept the fact of the situation at hand, “Look, there are plenty of other bottles I can put my hands on" (Cormier 79). Being an alcoholic has shown in Buddy’s character due to always having a bottle of "booze" on hand, again Buddy is shown to be furious because Buddy does not take the opinions of other characters into consideration about having a drink, even though characters throughout the story try to help Buddy not become an alcoholic. Throughout Buddy’s experience with alcohol this character cannot properly function, it can connect to being an alcoholic and can lead to increasing illness and earlier death. Drinking in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale alcohol has supposed to be banned from the society,"Last night he had a drink, scotch and water. He's taken to drinking in my presence, to unwind after the day."(Atwood 242). It just comes to show everybody has a drink once in a while, alcohol can become addicting to the body but in the novel alcohol is used socially not to be drunk or becoming an alcoholic. In We All Fall Down the character Buddy does not drink alcohol socially but has alcohol at hands