You're just another lying ol' dirty birdy.' ~ Annie Wilkes, Misery 'I thought you were good Paul - but you're not good. It’s impossible to imagine being in such a horrific bind-impossible to imagine leaving your daughter behind to be raised in such a mysoginistic society where even the Wives are raped and abused and aren’t allowed to learn how to read or write, and they’re near the top of the totem pole as far as women in Gilead are concerned. And yes, there’s a lot of very raw, very real emotion here, and one can’t help but empathize with June’s awful situation.

June is a fugitive from Gilead, a wanted criminal who will either be killed (realistically) or sent to a sex farm (due to plot armor) and if she isn’t caught she’ll likely get killed in the war or starve or succumb to the elements eventually.īut June is stubborn to a fault, and it’s actually pretty frustrating to watch. She has no way of finding out and even if she could, no way of actually getting to her. As Moira says, over and over again, June has no possible way of actually reaching her daughter. She can’t leave without Hannah.Īnd this is the real stumbling block, though it’s more complicated than just leaving Hannah behind.

Moira tries to get her to run with her to the ship where she can smuggle her onboard, but June wants to stay. June, you see, doesn’t want to go, either. But, this being The Handmaid’s Tale, they get grimmer fast. In any case, with time against them and Oona putting the kibosh on Moira’s plan to bring June along, things look pretty grim. (Then again, surely the kids would have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, not June escaping. Her freedom from their clutches would be a huge blow to Gilead and a huge boon to Gilead’s enemies-though also quite possibly the last straw before all-out war. This is a woman who has inspired revolt and disquiet in the Gileadean state. This is the woman who helped rescue over 80 children from Gilead.

That she’s also a symbol of the resistance movement that both Gilead and the outside world have turned into a sort of larger than life celebrity of sorts only makes Moira’s case more poignant. She’s a Handmaiden, which in and of itself is a pretty big deal.

On the other hand, June is not just another American refugee.

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