• over_clox@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        If I had read 1984 in school and had to write an essay on it, especially these days, I’d write the essay as a compare and contrast between the dystopian predictions in the book vs actual current events and mass surveillance as things are today. So in that sort of way, it would actually be covering real world events as well as the book at the same time.

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      15 days ago

      It’s a great book. It really awakened me in high school. I think kids should be forced to read it.

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        15 days ago

        There’s something deeply ironic about saying people should be forced to read Orwell…