Blog # 1

I think that the society described in the story is disgusting. People have no freedom, they are forced to do everything society tells them to do. They can't say no and run away either. It's almost like being in jail. I find it appalling how the narrator's daughter was taken away from her and she was sent away to be breeder for someone else. No one had a choice in the matter, even the commander had to follow the routine and have sex with the girl, regardless if he likes it or not. In school, the narrator was always taught that the society was created so that she could be protected, the rules were there so that she couldn't get raped, but she gets raped EVERY month, by the same person, and it's LEGAL for him to rape her. The story sounds like such a backwards society, one that was created in the past, hundred of years ago, and doesn't seem like it would be in the United States. What I'm wondering about is what made the government create these new rules and laws and this whole new society. Why didn't the rest of the world stop the US from doing this. Also, this seems like such a boring society, if you are at a high position, you get to live better than other people, but if you are not, you live like a slave. Also, it seems that the standard of living lowered too, because not even the commanders get to eat meat everyday, which seems odd. In our current society, everyone can eat meat every single day, and in that backwards society in the story, it sounds like the common people rarely gets meat. It all sounds really communistic too without any currency or anything. The tokens are like another way of saying food stamps. And what is with those aunts that teach them at the schools, they are more like witches with their beating and tortures and stuff.