Academic literacy has a great impact on how a person expresses and presents themselves in a scholastic environment. The tools to effectively read, write and critically think are skills that not only help a person in the scholastic environment but also in personal discovery. Through positive experien...

The questions of infidelity, love and sexuality and the influence of Jon, Josef, and to a certain extent Ben over these. Atwood portrays early in the novel the divide between male and female, for example at school she and Steven are separated because of the "Girls and Boys" different e...