Rory Gilmore Challenge Book One: George Orwell 1984

 Among the seminal texta of the 20th Century, 1984 is a rare work that grows more haunting as it's futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949 the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of an attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience in modern life the ubiquity of television the distortion of the language and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. The overall experience of this book is more amazing not just from his interpretation of the television but boxes that watch and since you much like Alexa and Suri. The fact he saw these changes occurring right now with the changes made in books and education to make history been what is wanted to be taught not what was. When this book was originally written in 1949 how much did Geroge see coming that everyone believed could not be happening and is happening right now in society not just in the USA but all over the world?

The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labor camp. Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil. Actually, he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was, of course, impossible for his present purpose. He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act. In small clumsy letters he wrote:

April 4th, 1984.

He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. It must be round about that date, since he was fairly sure that his age was thirty-nine, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945; but it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two.

1984

The Next book on the Rory Gilmore Challenge is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.