CHILDBIRTH
... walls like giant mollusks. (Handmaid’s Tale)CHILDBIRTH: We emerge into a central courtyard. It’s wide and also high: it goes up several stories to a skylight at the top. There’s a fountain in the middle of it, a round fountain spraying water in the shape of dandelion gone to seed. Plotted plants and trees sprout here and there; vines hang down from the balconies. Oval-sided glass elevators slide up and down the walls like giant mollusks. (Handmaid’s Tale)CHILDBIRTH: We emerge into a central.Offred she is given the name of the man whose children she is expected to bear. She becomes a handmaid after the attempt of escape with her daughter and husband. They fail; her daughter is given away to the barren couple and she don’t know about...