Part 1. Choose a significant theme in the book: handmaids tale (theme- power and control through surveillance) and make an argument about its role and relevance to the novel as a whole. To support your argument you will need 2 secondary sources that offer insight to your major claim. Part 2- for this position paper, you will use your argument ( from part 1 (thesis)) on the handmaids tale as lens to evaluate our culture/society, making a case and how it relates to the functions in our current America society