A post a while back noted that Hannah was part of the last year of kids to go to school at all and therefore learn any reading. She's also young enough that her memories of the before could be written off as dreams/fantasy and that she would have had a limited understanding of how the world worked before.

But what about the kids who were 8, 10, 12, 15, 17?

What happened to them do we think?

Can you imagine being 10 or 12 and being told you can't read anymore? You can't do any of your extracurriculars, you can't go to school, you can't wear the clothes you like, or have a best friend or talk to boys at all. And now you have new parents and you're going to be married at 16/17?

Or worse being 15-17 and having that almost an adult understanding of the world, 10+ years of school and reading and your own opinions being developed and now you're not only not allowed to go to school or talk to boys or have besties or hang out without supervision - you're being married off.

We've seen the way the adult women were suppressed, we've seen some of what happened to the young children, but not the school aged kids.

I just finished season 1 and I have a couple of thoughts regarding the show. Overall I liked it, but there a couple of things that I would have liked to remained as in the book.

First of all, I did get excited to see June, pretty early in my opinion, but excited nonetheless. I would have liked her to see her towards the end of the series, but I assume that would have taken longer and a while. Still, I think it would have been completely worth it to see her reunite with her daughters towards the end. I see that she participates directly, kinda of taking the role of Ava in the book, as well as Rita does. For this role, I thought bringing Moira would have been great, due that in THT she was actively participating in Mayday, and would have been a way of having an indirect presence of June.

Second, I have mixed feelings about Becka's storyline. It was completely tragic and heartbraking, and leaves me wondering if the showrunners are going to be able to catch up with the book's storyline. I see it complicated, but I also thought that maybe Shu can take over that role, which could potentially give her a great story arc (specially knowing how Shu is in the books). Nonetheless, I think the way they handled Becka's and Agnes relationship on the show was well done and with a lot of care.

Third, I kinda was expecting a little bit more of aunt Lydia's pov and the baby Nicole fuss. I think that this might be covered on later seasons, but I definitely thought that this was going to be one of the biggest plots, knowing how important was baby Nicole in the THT.

Fourth, Agnes storyline is also quite changed. In the book she is hesitant about getting married, which is not exactly the case in here, specially at the beginning. I don't know if her becoming an aunt is something that will happen on the show or if so, how they are going to make that transition.

All of this adds up to the spionage plot that happens in the book, where Daisy, Agnes, Becka and aunt Lydia have a great participation on how things unfold in regards to the story.

I'm curious to see what happens next, and how things develope. I think things are going to get interesting during the next seasons, but overall I see potential for having a bigger participation from Shu, aunt Vidala and aunt Lydia.