Margaret Atwood ’s seminal dystopian novel The Handmaid ’s Tale has been called many things before — but sexist ? That ’s what one Toronto parent is exact in his pursuit to get it out of school .
Actually , it sound as though Robert Edwards is mostly outrage by the anti - Christian base in Atwood ’s seminal tarradiddle of a future theocratic society which uses women as stock breeder .
But he ’s latched on to the book ’s fierceness , foul spoken language , sexual abasement , “ brutal situation , ” and “ prostitution ” as reasons to remove it from the classroom . After all , some of the linguistic process in the leger is stuff pupil would be expelled for saying in the hallways , so why is it okay to register a account book containing it ?
“ I ’m not looking to cast out books , ” says Edwards , who ’s launch a formal function to get the book off from the school . He considers himself spiritual , and says that if the school day board is going to include book criticizing one faith , then all faith ought to be opened up for criticism . ( Including Zoroastrianism ? ) A “ review committee ” is considering the book and will make a recommendation to the “ director of education . ”
In the lag , Edwards ’ 17 - year - old Word , who had been studying the Good Book with the ease of his classmates , will instead analyse Aldous Huxley ’s Brave New World , a leger with no perturbing sexual situations at all . And he ’ll get to mistreat out of class during discussions on Attwood ’s book . ( In other tidings ? gratis period ! ) [ Edmonton Sun ]
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