Nicholas Basinet
Mr. Osberg
Choice Reading Response Essay
October 15, 2017 For my choice reading, I chose to read the book 1984 by George Orwell. This book follows a character named Winston Smith who is against the way that the government works, where they are always watching. There are many examples of how this book relates to my life including mass surveillance and constant worldwide turmoil. As most people know, every key stroke on every device, including smartphones, computers, and even voice calls on phones, is recorded. In today's world, the only secrets are in people's heads. This is very similar to Winston, as he has many secrets, but Big Brother is always watching. Every television is tapped, every work station has a camera, and …show more content…
Winston is a person who disagrees with many things that are happening in his world, something that happens with me as well including kneeling for the anthem and some things at the presidential level. In the book he hates not being able to have any privacy, something that is hard, but attainable in my life. In the book it states, “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.” (7). Winston bought a blank notebook a while back, and begins to write in it in the beginning, an illegal act, but can only write in it when next to the side of the television, out of the cameras vision. Although, a little later in the book Winston returns to the store where he bought the diary and is told by the old man that runs the shop, “There’s another room upstairs that you might care to take a look at…” (81). He finds that there are no cameras and there is no television in this room and later uses it to have relations with his girlfriend. I can partially relate to this because in today’s society, there are cameras everywhere. There are cameras in stores, schools, and in computers and phones which are easily hackable. These are a couple of ways that I relate to Winston in the
Mr. Osberg
Choice Reading Response Essay
October 15, 2017 For my choice reading, I chose to read the book 1984 by George Orwell. This book follows a character named Winston Smith who is against the way that the government works, where they are always watching. There are many examples of how this book relates to my life including mass surveillance and constant worldwide turmoil. As most people know, every key stroke on every device, including smartphones, computers, and even voice calls on phones, is recorded. In today's world, the only secrets are in people's heads. This is very similar to Winston, as he has many secrets, but Big Brother is always watching. Every television is tapped, every work station has a camera, and …show more content…
Winston is a person who disagrees with many things that are happening in his world, something that happens with me as well including kneeling for the anthem and some things at the presidential level. In the book he hates not being able to have any privacy, something that is hard, but attainable in my life. In the book it states, “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.” (7). Winston bought a blank notebook a while back, and begins to write in it in the beginning, an illegal act, but can only write in it when next to the side of the television, out of the cameras vision. Although, a little later in the book Winston returns to the store where he bought the diary and is told by the old man that runs the shop, “There’s another room upstairs that you might care to take a look at…” (81). He finds that there are no cameras and there is no television in this room and later uses it to have relations with his girlfriend. I can partially relate to this because in today’s society, there are cameras everywhere. There are cameras in stores, schools, and in computers and phones which are easily hackable. These are a couple of ways that I relate to Winston in the