In the year 1984 across
the world, people flooded book stores in search of an old book they remembered
that they had read in high school. The title of the book was Nineteen Eighty-Four and everyone
thought it was so funny to see how wrongly George Orwell had predicted the way
the world would be by that year. They laughed at the inaccuracies, and
especially, they were glad to note that their government was nothing like the
one in the book. Much like the characters of the book 1984, the people failed to see how the government had changed for
the worst. The progression towards a world like that of the book is even worse
now in 2014. Much like the “telescreens” that watch a person’s every movement
in their life, the people of today are monitored through security cameras, the
internet, and the new threat, the NSA. You won’t be killed in America for
simply denouncing the country, but the America government can deem a person as a threat or a
terrorist and throw that person in Guantanamo Bay if they don’t want them here.
The Ministry of Love from the fictitious novel comes to life in Guantanamo Bay:
people go in and never leave and no one is supposed to question the government
about what happens. We have holidays and celebrations that make us forget the
hardships of life like the ones in 1984.
The more times you read Orwell’s book, the more connections you find. Some may
claim that as a people, we are much too smart to let something like the events
in 1984 happen, but perhaps the fact
that we think we can’t be fooled is what the government uses to fool us.
