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George Orwell's '1984': A Short Narrative

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When Alex woke up he grabbed his hatchet knowing that he had to do something with it but he didn't know what. As he thought about what he could do he went outside and stoked the fire. He sat down and watched the tiny sticks catch on fire and slowly turn black and at that moment he heard something in the bushes rustling behind him and before he could turn his head completely around then a huge wall of brown fur slammed into him. He had no time to think of to move, everything went from dark to light to dark again as he was thrown into the wall of his shelter and before he looked up to see what had done this to him he reached for the door to try to get inside and he got the door opened but before he could get inside he was hid again with something …show more content…

Alex also had be crushing weight of something in his lap. Alex just lay there for a moment gathering his thoughts and when he opened his eyes he got a better view of things bit everything was still blurry from his head hurting so much but he could make out something that was very large in size in front of him and partially on him. He tried to get up but couldn't move because of the pain in his chest so he just lay there slowly falling asleep as he watched the sun go down. He woke up again in the middle of the night but he still couldn't move, the light of the full moon gave him the ability to now clearly see what was laying on him and foe a second he thought it was a bear but then he saw the antlers and he knew what it was a moose, it wasn't a very big moose and he was thankful of that because if it was it might have killed him. He kept looking for the place that the batchet hit and then he say that it had hit the moose square in the eye, there was blood all over the sand and on him and on the moose but he still didn't have the energy to get up so he went back to sleep looking at the low burning

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Serena Le Mr. Givens English IIH(2) 2 March 2023 1984 Culminating Project 1984 is a political novel written by George Orwell. In this dystopian society, the citizens are surveyed under a government that watches their every move. The Party's control over the past, plays a large role in controlling others.

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To begin, the suppression of privacy by technological invasions diminishes freedom. Others posit that it shows when the party slogan reads, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” They think, proles, who are the middle class, should be kept in subjection; their thoughts should be controlled and kept in fear, but if not, then the beliefs need to be converted. The proletariat is satisfied with its misery and with no acknowledgment of its suppression. Otherwise, the population will not survive.

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George Orwell wrote the book 1984 in 1949. He explained in the book about how it would be if we lived in society where the government ruled our every move. He made us envision if we were told by our government to think like they wanted us to think basically making us robots. He told of how they preached hate in Oceania. It was Airstrip One (formally Great Britain) a province of the superstate Oceania.

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