My English teacher made a huge error.
He got out a crate of 1984 books and set them on the desk in front of me and told everybody to come up and get one but nobody did. Everyone was like, “we’re not getting one!” and stuff like that. in the end the teacher just passed them out and i felt bad for him because he couldn’t get us to do anything and i hope he doesn’t think he can get anyone to read that stupid book.
because i’ve never heard of a more over-rated book than 1984, asside possibly from fairenheit 451. here’s what sparknotes says about that book: “In 1976, students totally loved this futuristic novel. Now it’s more of a history book, and some people think an updated version called 2024 needs to be released.”
And it’s completely true- because guess what, ever since we were in fifth grade our teachers have been like, “watch out for big brother!” and, “make sure your car doesn’t have on-star, they can record your convoes just like big brother!” i even had a teacher when i was in 8th grade who put his face on a piece of paper and wrote on it “big brother is watching you” and made copies and put them up all over the wall beside his “pave the planet” posters and his “i know a lost cause when i see one that’s why i don’t recycle” posters.
It’s so stupid, because we know that we could be followed on surveillence cameras and by credit card purchases, i mean come on, we’ve seen eagle-eye and every other science fiction movie, but we’re not scared, because few of us are involved in large scale conspiracies. I mean heres the thing. We KNOW we can be followed by surveillance cameras- We don’t care!
i haven’t even read the book and i don’t plan to. i didn’t read Lord of the flies but i could pretty much sum it up for you. and btw most people in my school think forcing us to read LOTF is a school admin plot to get us all to stop believing in God, and also that A Separate Peace is about Gay guys, and Walden is quite possibly the least relevant book in existance.
i’d like to know when they’re going to start having us read books that are actually going to be relevant to our lives and teach us a lesson about the world that we could and would actually use instead of science fiction tales that are over-rated and who’s theme doesn’t scare us because we already know the lesson it’s trying to teach and we still couldn’t care less about it.
and if he was going to write a book about the future why didn’t he make it like 2084, i mean come on, nobody thought that was going to happen in less then ten years.
that teacher that i told you about, the one who was anarchist-anticonformist-poster-happy, told us that 1984 was not fiction, but that the age of big brother was upon us. If it were, why do we still need to read about it happening in the future?
Tags: 1984, english, sparknotes
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