“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” (Orwell, 4) These words are the endorsed slogans of the Party, the Party being the all ruling party in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, and the words are emblazoned in enormous letters on the white pyramid of the Ministry of Truth. Throughout my reading and reflecting, especially on that slogan specifically of the Party, I made the connection to the chapter that concerns politics in How To Read Literature Like a Professor where Foster states that writing about politics is “Writing that engages the realities of its world-that thinks about human problems, including those in the social and political realm, that addresses the rights of persons and the wrongs of those in power.” (Foster,
