Author Information The author's name is George Orwell. Orwell was born in Motihari, Bengal, India in 1903. George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell has also written Animal Farm, Coming up for air and many more books. At the age of 13 a scholarship to Eton College. Because of Orwell's family’s decrepit state, Orwell could not continue into Oxford or Cambridge. The book 1984 makes since the way it is. The author uses both primary and secondary sources. The sources use both new and old sources. Most of the sources have something to do with war, tyrants, or totalitarians. One source that is particularly interesting is the poem If our enemies took me by Osip Mandelstam.To some people, a poem would be more interesting than other types of sources. My research on the author has explained to me that the author more than qualified to talk about the topic’s he talks about. The range of sources he used and the fact that Orwell had obtained a scholarship at the young age of thirteen. Does this book agree or clash with your world views …show more content…
Many people believe that the government is watching us through all of our technical devices, even toasters. This reflects on how in the book the government is always watching The book 1984 is a warning ha warn if the world does not change it’s ways, then everyone in the world will end up like the people in 1984. Big Brother has violated every basic right. One quote from the book says “Nothing was your own…” This quote explains that the government could see everything, which violates the fourth amendment which says that every citizen has the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.Winston does the right thing. Winston tries to rebel against the government and that’s the right thing he did. Although in the end he became under the control of Big Brother in the