What Does Dystopian Novel 1984 Mean To Me

From the moment I read the opening line of George Orwell’s 1984, I knew that I wanted a profession in writing. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” (Orwell, 1). A simple, yet subtlety clever way of conveying to the reader the type of dystopian world that takes place in the novel. It was in the late Mr. Scott’s English class of my junior year that I first read this book. It is not often that people can recall the exact moment in which they determined what they desired to do with the remainder of their life. However, reading this book amongst a room filled with my peers was that moment. Orwell’s dystopian novel opened me up to the idea of reading for pleasure, which has lead to an abundance of obtained knowledge. I am a strong advocate

Things that I can see, either in the media or in other writings, tend to inspire me. This usually leads to me wanting to read and learn about these things. For example, after I watched, Into the Wild, a movie by Sean Penn that stars Emile Hirsch, I was inspired to learn more about the main character. His name was Christopher McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp). He was a college graduate from West Virginia who abandoned all of his belongings (including burning his social security card), and headed west with intentions of hitchhiking to Alaska and living off of the land. The book, I found out, goes into much more detail about whom the real life McCandless was, along with his journey to Alaska and the time spent there. After watching the movie and subsequently reading the book, I became obsessed with the idea of travelling. In the book, Christopher McCandless takes multiple books with him on his journey. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, and several books by Jack London, including The Call of the Wild, were mentioned several of times in the book. This gave me the desire to want to read works by Thoreau and