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Question: the beginning of Chapter 30, Offred shares: "Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at a sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke rising from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a think curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket. I wish I could see in the dark, better than I do." (Atwood 191). Consider this passage and the symbolism of "night". What do you think this symbol means? How can you relate it to another concept within the book?