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George Orwell's '1984': Can We Trust The Government?

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Can we the people trust the government? We should not trust the government because they are trying to take away our freedom. Also hiding things from all the people. This relates to my topic by the book 1984 showing us how the people are being watched and controlled by a television. I think that we should not trust the government because they just want to controlled people and the govt has all those secrets that they don't want anyone to know not even the president. The hunger games is about a woman who volunteers to to win games. Games are were people have to fight against each other. A quote from the movies is “The rules of the hunger games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called to participate”. This related to my topic because it is talking about how the government is taking people and training them to win a game we’re they have to kill others to win. This also relates to how to n the book 1984 they also control the people’s life and are always watching them to so what they are doing and if they do something wrong they torture them and make them tell the truth. This is the same as in The Hunger Games. …show more content…

When V saves a young woman named Evey from the secret police he discovers an ally in his fight against England's oppressors. “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” This relates to my topic because it talks about how the people are scared of the government, but in the movie v for vendetta v shows the people that the govt should be scared of them and that they should stop what they are doing. This also relates to the 1984 book where winston is being controlled to tell the truth about what he did with the

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