the handmaid’s tale timeline
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A revision timeline for teaching Atwood's novelTRANSCRIPT
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The Handmaid’s Tale
A Timeline
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Events before the beginning of the novel
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Offred’s mother is involved in feminist demonstrations
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Moira and Offred are friends at college
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Offred marries Luke
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Offred is no longer able to access her money
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Offred loses her job as a librarian
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Offred and Luke try to escape Gilead
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Offred’s child is taken from her
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Offred’s mother is sent to the colonies
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Events that occur at the Red Centre
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Moira is brought back to the Red Centre after a failed
attempt to escape
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Janine is derided by the other Handmaids
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Moira escapes from the Red Centre
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Moira is found and taken to Jezabel’s
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Events that occur at the
Commander’s house
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Offred & Ofglen first look at bodies on the wall
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Offred discovers the phrase ‘nolite te bastardes
carborundurum’ written in her closet
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Offred discovers that her predecessor killed herself
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A doctor offers to try to make Offred pregnant
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Offred takes part in the ceremony
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Offred attends a Birth Day
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The Commander and Offred play Scrabble for the first time
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The Commander touches Offred’s face during the
ceremony
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Ofglen introduces Offred to the Mayday movement
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Serena Joy shows Offred a picture of her child
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Serena Joy suggests that Offred use Nick to get
pregnant
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Offred attends a Prayvaganza
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The Commander takes Offred to Jezebel’s
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Offred is Nick’s mistress
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Offred falls in love with Nick
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Offred attends a salvaging
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Offred attends a particicution
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Ofglen is replaced
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The new Ofglen reveals that she is not part of the resistance movement
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Serena Joy finds out about the relationship between Offred
and her husband
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Offred is taken to the Commander’s house in a black
van
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Offred’s story becomes part of a symposium on Gileadean
Studies