He talks about how in the book Nineteen-Eighty Four they don't have freedom and how in the present Obama doesn't like that the government spy on the citizen. A quote from the article “president Obama says he’s not big brother...Obama and many others insist that the U.S. is not living under such a regime. The government is not listening to everyone's telephone calls, Obama said on Friday, nor is it using the information to spy on innocent Americans” (Greenblatt,2013). A second quote is “Stanley Corngold, an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. Kafka raises questions not only about governments collecting massive amounts of information "like a giant vacuum cleaner," Corngold says, but what they do with it”(Greenblatt,2013). This article is basically talking about how Obama doesn't want the government to watch the people and see what they are doing. George Orwell thinks that it’s wrong to see what other people are doing and don't give them their …show more content…
The citizen in Oceania can’t make up ideas and think about things that Big Brother doesn’t want them to think. One quote from the book “He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms...devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended” (Orwell, pg.22). A second quote “Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory” (Orwell, pg.27). These quotes mean that the citizen don’t have freedom like we do right now. The American citizen here has a lot of freedom and in the book they don't have any