To begin I really enjoyed reading Happy endings by Margaret Atwood so I know I will enjoy this book. Reading the epigraph and the first 3 chapters, it really confused me. I think it relates to the story in some way, but I still don’t see the connection. The first epigraph about the Bible verses are verses that I reread in the Bible. In the Bible, the commentary said that Rachel was so desperate to have a child that she was an embarrassment to her husband. In verse 3, she gave up and decided to allow her husband to sleep with her sister. Now in relation to chapters 1-3, I’m assuming that the Commanders wife cannot have children, so the handmaids are surrogates who sleep with the commander. The second epigraph to me is a sign of hope in a way. In chapter 1 and 2, it was very descriptive; I felt like I was actually there with the narrator. In chapter one, the text states, “We yearned for the future” (3). This to me was a way that the 2nd epigraph and chapter 1 related. The last epigraph is a real mystery to me. I have no idea why that epigraph was there and its relation to the story. It threw me off however I believe that the last four words of the epigraph which states, “thou shalt not eat stones” are significant to the story.