What has happened so far in this book is that a man named Winston Smith (or rather comrad smith) is living in the time of 1984 - at least that is his estimate of the date. The society that has evolved in the London area is this totalitarian society where one man, Big Brother, is in charge of everything. Thoughts are controlled by scaring humans into conforming to one another. Everyone is watched through telescreens in and outside of your own home. Your own children will more often than not betray you if you seem suspicious. Everyone is expected to conform to one another and be in awe of this reigning power of Big Brother. The past doesn’t exist because it is constantly changing. The past is altered to make the present seem perfect up to the point where no one knows what the real truth or the real past is, they just learn to accept what they are told. But Winston seems to be the only one against this way of life. He begins to write a diary (a thought crime punishable by death) to explain everything that happens in this way of life and how he feels about it. This book so far is actually relatively similar to that of the hunger games. The land is ruled by one overpowering man (though theirs is a president) but there are some that are way more privileged than others (like the different officers), and there are those that are screwed and in poverty like district 12.. I could totally see a connection between these two books. I think the biggest surprise or shock for me in this book was discovering the language of newspeak. The fact that their dictionary is proud of getting rid of words every year instead of adding words is disturbing. The government is not only controlling their lives and their minds, but also their form of communication - it gives me this eery feeling that they are all being turned into these non empathetic type of robots.. I could never imagine a world like this one, it makes me glad I live in a democracy.
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