Parallels between the world of the novel and our world today

The government obviously didn't turn out to be like it was in 1984. The real government doesn't have that much power. Our government doesn't brain wash us and watch us constantly. There may be many things the government does that we don't know about, but I don't think the government brain washes us. There isn't many similarities between our government and the government in 1984. If we keep letting the government pass laws that lets them listen to our phone calls our government may become more like the government in 1984. One similarity is T.V. commercial that try to get us to hate George bush or not to like a certain president. Those commercials are like two minute hate because that commercial tries to get you to hate the one person and like the other. There are some similarities but, I don't think our world will ever be a dystopia and have a government that powerful. Our government will never be able to control our minds and make us believe things that are not true at all. It is a scary thing to think about a government that can control people lives .

Important ideas from your classmates

Reading other peoples ideas helped me understand the book much better. When reading other blogs I got to read there opinions and made the book more interesting and easier to understand. Without the blogs I wouldn't have liked the book as much because I probably wouldn't have understood the book. Sometimes the blogs didn't help because I was reading peoples blogs that didn't read the book and I could tell the person had no clue what they were talking about. Overall I liked the blogs and if you keep up with the blogs they will help you.
Reading Adams blogs helped me because I thought he understood the book very well and he explained all the confusing parts of the book like doublethink. It was very confusing when O'Brien was interrogating Winston because O'Brien was using doublethink and I was having trouble understanding that section of the book. The blogs helped me more than hurt me, to me the blogs are a good idea and they made a big difference.