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Angela Cortez _ngela_icole_ortez — How to describe a classic? I feel like anything that I say won't do the story justice. At the time that he wrote his story, 1984 was set in the future. This is about as dystopic (is that even a word?) as it gets. Everything is controlled by the government, and this story is where the monumental phrase "Big Brother" came from. It's kind of amazing to think that one story created a term that is now so commonly used and understood by people that have no idea what 1984 was. Anyways, Big Brother is always watching you, unless you manage to escape from civilization or go into one of the really old prole homes where there isn't a tv screen. These cases are rare. This is a world where children are encouraged to denounce their parents. It is remniscent to Nazi germany in that way. The children are brainwashed into violence towards the enemy and adoration of Big Brother. It is sad. There is almost no hope for them. Hardly anyone in the society remembers what it was like before the reign of Big Brother, and thanks to the ironically titled Ministry of Truth, people are only able to read what Big Brother wants them to read. What really stuck with me about this story was the power of words. There was one passage where the characters were talking about newspeak and the new edition of the dictionary. If you can control the dictionary, you can control how people think. At first, one might think that this is impossible, but just think about it. What if you went your whole life and the word "freedom" never existed. It wasn't in the dictionary. Nobody every used it. You had never heard it referenced or mentioned in any way. Even if there was some part of you that thought that maybe there was something that you were missing, that maybe something had been taken away from you that ought never be taken, you wouldn't be able to express it because you wouldn't have the words. Sure, there would be the feeling of resentment and incompleteness within, but what good is a feeling when there is no way to put it into words? What can a feeling really do when you can't communicate what you want to attain? It's a scary thought. It makes me glad that the dictionary continues to grow larger, rather than the other way around. This book made me think. It took me a little bit of time to read it because I needed to digest what I read. I needed to ponder and contemplate; definitely not a quick read or a bus read, but definitely something worthy of the fame and attention that it has recieved over time. I plan to read more of Orwell's stories.

Claudia Jurado claudiajur4d4c — The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman (2008)

Gabriela Ferreira gfpaint17a6 — I'd read this book once when I was in the 7th or 8th grade, it'd stuck in my mind all these years so I'd read it again.