7 The Book

[Mr. Willhoit]

Here is an opportunity to express any thoughts about The Book.

[Jessica Christensen]

I loved reading the book. I thought it was so interesting to read all
the different ideas behind the Party. Everything made sense with what
George Orwell depicted was the "Party." I loved how Orwell described
the two other superstates and their boundaries. Orwell described the
other civilians in the superstates to be just like the peoples of
Oceana. I would be like looking in a mirror. The use of doublethink
however confused me a little. I had to read that part a couple of
times, but I really liked the idea behind doublethink. How many times
do we actually use "doublethink" in a day. We use it in every aspect
of life, it is not only in the book. I think that is one of the
messages Orwell is trying to teach us. Orwell uses tells us of our
past, such as Nazi Germany, and how much farther that could have gone
if they knew what Orwell wrote about. This book talks about so many
more ideas that are really revolutionary. However, I was very
disappointed to find out that O' Brian wrote this book to trick
people.

[Sammi]

I agree but disagree with Jessica. I definitely did not like reading
the book but it did have some interesting ideas. I liked how it
explained everything pretty well but it was really, really, really
long and it was not interesting. I think they dumbed the book down
and made it boring, just like everything thing else in their
community.

On Mar 10, 11:38 pm, Jessica Christensen <jmchristense...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Courtney Anderson]

Here is what I thought of The Book, In the beginning I actually liked
reading it, I found it very interesting. It gave me more details about
the three slogans, because honestly i was very lost with them. It also
made me raise a few eyebrows about the whole utopia and Goldstein.
After reading the book the first time I was like "wow" Orwell maybe
after all smart. Then i realized that we had to read more of The Book
and i was done. I read it but i do not remember one thing that i read.
Every time I read it my mined was some where else. All together I
liked how Orwell added it but maybe he should of only put one part in
it, to me it distracted me away from the book.

[Stu Warpinski]

I thought the book was very interesting because it goes beyond this
book, 1984, and applies to many modern powers. There are also many
quotes from the book that apply to life in general, for example on
page 204 "Inequality was the price of Civilization." No truer words
ever spoken. No humans are equal in the sense that we are all capable
of different things. We are equal in our potential to do the best we
can, but naturally our intelligence, or lack of intelligence, will
divide us into classes. Civilization is a result of intelligence, it
is what separates us from the animals, and while all animals of a
similar species can be viewed as equal to each other, humans are
limited in that capacity because we recognize our potential for
knowledge and compare our knowledge with that of other humans because
we are able to.

Orwell goes into more detail about the separation among classes and
explains the motives of each. The high wish to remain where they are,
the middle want to trade places with the high, and the low want to
make everyone equal in social stature. This is why we cannot be equal.
The high and middle class will not give up their "higher" stature, and
the low refuse to stay low despite their inability to become, let
alone remain, part of the high or middle class. Unfortunately this is
how it has to be. This is the price of civilization. Small price to
pay for the luxuries and liberties it affords.

[Tecya Peterson]

1984 is a very interesting book. I really enjoy reading it and it is
a lot different than other books that we have had to read in the past
for school. I agree with Sammi in the way that when Winston is
reading the book, that it drags on a little too much. It is very hard
to pay attention to those parts since the chapters repeat the same
information. I do not think that there would be a better way to give
the readers the background information about Oceania; it just would be
nicer if it were a little shorter. Other than that, I really like how
it is a love story but at the same time it is about the government and
lifestyles of the people of Oceania. This book is unlike anything
else that I have read in the past which makes it more interesting to
me.

[Julie Champagne]

I agree with Stu. The Book is a really interesting and it has a link
with today's life. While I was reading, I sometimes thought it was
like our society. It is the first time I read a book of that kind and
it makes me think a lot: there are so many things going on in today's
world that it MIGHT happen in a long time if we keep trying to change
the world so hard (without any inequality or where the power is hold
by a few like today's dictature). Of course it is not going to happen
in the same way if it changes (like the telescreen, the Thought
Police, the Party or Big Brother) and people are not going to try to
control our minds but it could happen in another way, in which we
wouldn't really have the right to make choices and to be control by
some "association".
I did not really enjoyed reading "The Book". It was interesting in the
beginning when they explain the quotes because I did not really
understand them that way but then I was kinf od bored to read it.
There are a lot of useless details to explain the past society.

[ivoge...@abv.bg]

At first I liked the book. I still like it but not as much because of
some confusing parts and how it carries on. It is intersting about
goldstein and the idea of the three slogans is cool but now it's
getting a little confusing with Golstein's book. I think I will enjoy
the third book more because of what is going to happen to Winston and
Julia.

[Gustavo Gaspari]

I like this book, is a kind oof hard to understando all ideas, but i
can understand the principal idea and some of others ideas, i like
this book because it shows our society today but in the different
way.I like to know about how they think about the party and it shows
how was our society like 30 years ago.And it shows how the people
can't express their ideas.And the Big brother's power in the society.

[Katy Lynn]

I thought that the book was extremly boaring!!!! Most of the
information in the book was stuff that we should have already picked
up on. Although it did make a few good points it was extremly
repetitive and made the book a lot interesting to me. I liked that it
explained some of the motos but we should have already gotten them!

[Caytee Becker]

I liked the fact that the "book" was included, but it did not interest
me. It was good to have it in there to help the reader understand the
book better. To tell the truth, I skipped over a little bit because
it was boring me. It was good to translate about why it was so
important to know about it, and how there are only a few copies made
to be sure that not everyone will have a chance to read it. The book
was hidden, to keep secrets, ideas, and thoughts that not everyone
should know about.

[Brittany Walker]

I thought this part of the book was too philosophical for my taste.
It kind of gave me a better insight as to what the reasons of the war
were, and what the slogans meant, but it just dragged on so much. I
am not very into philosophy, so obviously this part was not very
exciting for me.

[juanita...@hotmail.com]

I think the fundamental of a writer is to keep the reader interested
with what they are reading.
this has been my first BIG book that I read in English, it was
complicate, I confess.. I learned many things from this book about
English. This book is similar to the Republic of Plato they take some
ideas of this book, also I think that this book has a lot of
information. they tell two or three stories at the same time that the
reader has to read and understand.
I thought that the book was more interesting and was going to lauch
issues of 1984. I really expected much more from the book.

On Mar 10, 2:01 pm, "Mr. Willhoit" <NickSWillh...@gmail.com> wrote: