Blog Assignment #2

We all face choices in our lives that will affect us in small and huge ways. One choice that I am currently struggling is with deciding what college to go to. There's one that's a good price but with a bad neighborhood around it, there's one that has friends and seems really friendly but priced pretty high, and there's one in the middle. This choice reminds me of the book we are currently reading which is "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Which tells the story about a dystopian Earth where women are mainly seen as objects and have tight restrictions put on them. In the book our main character Offred is at the doctor's for her monthly checkup. During the checkup the doctor gives her a decision, he can impregnate her so that she can have a high power's "child" or he could leave her alone and she might never have a child and face death. Just this power of choice frightens her because she finally has power, even though it's a little power it will still affect her life. This is almost exactly like my choice where no matter what I choose it will effect my life permanently and it terrifies me. This why I can connect to Offred with her fear of choice because no matter what you'll never know what happens if you choose the other option(s).