A EEE wooden bridge. A tear started somewhere inside him. It built up to a crescendo, burst in one single sob, and trickled across the firm carved cheek. It traced a cold salty line and fell gently into the frozen leaves. with cider sweetness as he rustled through them. He kept his head down —down from the crystalline sky, down from the crimson. sunset colored trees. At the top of the hill he turned. He watched the huddled form on the WARNING! FLOYD BERGHOUT 1984, By George Orwell, The New American Library (New SO be CROSBY We lie on the lawn with the sunlight on our faces. On loca As oi We eyes, hands “Smile, will clutch heat brews you! We hands and run ati owe across the Fields playtime The witch grass sweeps * Reach an are happy. leaps: mossy hotter touch. n careful Like our of a child, legs water. down, and fondle the water. 4/ t's sO coo! York City, 1949) There faces the world today one of the greatest threats in its history. This threat originates from the Communists and the goals their system represents. George Orwell recognized this threat and knew that if Communism goes uncontrolled we may lose the right of freedom and equality. He wrote 1984 for the purpose of warning us of this threat. Orwell related in his 1984 the life that might lay before us if a government controls our life. He presented the idea that our every movement may DESPERATELY SHAUNA new language would stop any thinking or even the ability to think on the part of the individual. The leading character, Winston, lost his liberty because he was caught thinking and secretly desiring to overthrow the government. His emotions and ideas were changed through the use of torture and his being confronted with the one thing he hated ana clean, and (6) we aTre happy. laces, controlled and watched most, rats. This brainwashing changed his entire ability to think. He believed everything the government told him, and in his own mind actually thought it true. If the government told him two and two were five, he believed it. The main character, Winston, was not necessary for the foundation of the book. Anyone in his time would do just as well. In the hands of the government Winston became merely a puppet. Orwell used him as an instrument through in presenting his warning message. 3 Orwell possesed only one fault in his writing. He miscalculated the time necessary for this control to take place. He thought it would accur in the ninteen fifties with the final revolution coming in the early sixties. Still this control may occur in the near future if things continue at their present rate. As presented in 1984 the world could reach a state of constant war, where all energies would lead to manufacturing war materials. This would keep the public’s mind on hating the enemy and divert it from thinking of its own position. In this state the government could easily control its people and net worry about a revolution. | highly recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t mind doing some thinking. It not only possesses the quality of being entertaining but presents in addition a warning message. | must only warn of one thing, after reading 1984 you, as I, may fee! brainwashed. the use of telescreens and hidden microphones. Today by simply reading the newspapers and observing the acts of Russia one can see that to control the world and each individual predominates the Russian system. Orwell recognized this goal in 1949 and wrote his book to warn us of it. He bases the theme of 1984 on this danger with the intent to warn us of it. | gained an entirely new idea in my reading of 1984. Orwell possesed the foresight to look ahead and see what may lie in the future for the population of the world. He saw the complete loss of human privacy and freedom. To show this possible loss he presented the possibility of the loss of the individual’s right to think. He showed where it could reach the point where thinking would be a crime. Through the use of only the necessary words eliminating all words that could possibly have a double meaning a new language would be created. The ultimate result of this (7)