howwedo94
11-29-2010, 10:27 PM
As a high school student, I feel as though the book should be throughly understood by all high school students. Although 1984 got off to a really slow start it finally picked up and I started to understand it better. At times Orwell went into too much detail and lost my interest but I later found out that most every detail foreshadowed what was coming up later in the book. Orwell's novel is thought to be a warning to the citizens that our future could turn into Oceania and its citizens. If we keep behaving like the way we do now, Oceania could be us. He was a very smart man for knowing that whoever controlled the present, also controlled the past and the future. It is important for us to see what could be so that we can appreciate the government we have and avoid the one described in 1984.