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- Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel. A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
- George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
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Orwell didn't predict anything. He observed WWII and fought in the Spanish civil war. All he had to do was write about what he knew about and describe its logical progression to the future where he set his book. It's not really predicting things when you take what somebody says and write about it.
2 key phrases to remember: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou, and "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" - many versions/authors
Orwell didn't predict anything. He observed WWII and fought in the Spanish civil war. All he had to do was write about what he knew about and describe its logical progression to the future where he set his book. It's not really predicting things when you take what somebody says and write about it.
2 key phrases to remember: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou, and "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" - many versions/authors
- a bunch of Americans who have no idea what it's like in Russia or China
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"To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee is one of the top ten most challenged and banned books of 2020. The same book, along with "1984" by George Orwell, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, and "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, are among the 100 most banned and challenged books of the past decade (2010-2019), according to the American Library Association.
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