Put yourself in Offred’s red shoes. How would you react if you were her, and had gone through everything she had in this Salvaging section (and throughout the novel)? Ponder what you would do, and why, when offered this potential freedom/death at the end of Ch. 46: “And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.” Ask yourself if you would trust Nick, or rely on Gilead to continue to be as untrustworthy, deceitful, and dangerous as it’s proven to be.