comment on style/language

Atwood used capitalization for emphasis throughout her novel. She is creating a new world set in the near future. One of the main way, she does this is through the creation of a different lexicon for her characters. She introduces words such as rakunk, pigoon, and solarcar to explain to the technology of the future. The words may be alien but they are often explained using context or even introduced for their first usage is they are completely new such as pigoon which is explained as a "pig balloon" used for growing human organs the first time it is used by Jimmy whose father created the creatures.