1984 has been my favorite book since I was in early high school. Have you read it?
I have, we also read it in school. I loved it. The dystopian novel is an interesting genre and I love to see what Orwell thought the world would be like.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
I love the idea of the "Thought Police", persecuting independent thinking and other "thoughtcrimes".
Yes there is a huge political lesson in it, which is why I think it is so often taught. I also loved the literature elements.
Orwell is a great writer. I love his lucid prose, and how he weaves that style into his support of democratic socialism.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Doublespeak
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g. "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language.
Origins and concepts
if you ask my dad what
time it is, he'll tell you how to build a watch. I have to embellish! I have to tell you all the who's and what's and how's and why's. And I have to do it with arm gestures and silly voices and weird faces. I also became a writer because I love to read. The elementary school I went to didn't have a library.
So, in second grade, after I finished reading all the books we had