With reference to two of the texts you have studied, compare and contrast how the writers establish a sense of place in the openings.

Atwood in The Handmaid’s Tale (THT) and McCarthy in The Road (TR)both use visual imagery in the descriptions of the setting, giving a sense of a dystopian future in the opening of their texts. Descriptions of the treatment of the boy in TR, he is considered to be more important, compared to the treatment of […]