One example of this statement would be when Ms. Parson invites Winston to her apartment to fix her kitchen sink and Winston sees how loud and violent her two children are. Winston thinks in his mind, “Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy...organizations such as the Spies were systematically turned them into ungovernable little savages (Orwell 1.2.25). Ms. Parson also shows signs of nervousness around her kids because she knows what they might do to her. In short, Big Brother brainwashes children and are another way of the people always being controlled and is another way of eliminating anyone who is against them. How this connects with our world today would be how regular people spy on one another. In the article “Little Brother Is Watching”, author Walter Kirn says “Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University student who committed suicide after a live-stream video of an encounter of his was played on the web, Little Brother took the form of a prying roommate with a webcam” (Kirn). Due to the embarrassment, his college student killed himself because he was unknowingly recorded during a private moment. This connects back to 1984 because adults and children would regularly keep tabs on each other, and in the article the student was recorded by a secret webcam. …show more content…
For example, in the article “In Britain, Somebody’s Watching You, the authorities say “We’re not interested in spying on someone in an internet café (Catilla). This evidence give more insight on how the government only has the cameras for the safety of the people, they aren 't trying to control their lives. However, the reality of the situation is that all countries have different rules and guidelines. For example, in the article “That 's No Phone, That 's My Tracker.”, the author states “...cellphone carriers responded 1.3 million times last year to law enforcement requests for call data…Many police agencies do not obtain search warrants when requesting location data from carriers” (Maass). This means US authorities can pull records and data about people without warrants or if they have probable cause. The quote from above proves and gives another reason why the statement “our current world is not becoming like the world of 1984” is incorrect. The government doesn 't need to put telescreens in your homes because they can always track you and listen to what you talk about or who you talk to with the cellphones we have. Some people think the world isn 't becoming like 1984, but the evidence provided proves