How did people not have Orwell in grade school?
8th grade English had Animal Farm, 11th grade English had 1984, at least where I grew up.
Seems like a failure of the education system.
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I was talking to my husband about this last night, I was going read it again. It was disturbing the first time many years ago, now I'm not sure I could read it without flipping out!
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Family members wouldn't read it when I recommended a couple years ago because they were afraid it'd be true. Quote. Now we're living it and I'm the main character.
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…and,
if they begin to become curious,
and somehow learn to read,
and then begin to think,
why,
…that will be the end of this school.
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I've seen literature professors make the case that 1984 was a critique of capitalism. so no, its only only reading, its having at least 2 brain cells
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