So, last class was interesting. God, that's cliche, I'm going to stop saying that. Anyways... I didn't read the article the night before like I was supposed to... but I got a chance to read it while in class. The discussion about language and George Orwell's emphasis on its importance was fascinating. 1984 is bar FAR my favorite book. It had a huge impact on me when I read it for the first time as a sophomore in high school. 9/11 had happened about a year or two before and our country was going through a massive change and a restructuring of the role of our government. I saw the country going down the road that Orwell had described in his book and it scared the crap out of me. That was the book that opened my eyes back in early highschool. Some people have one event that they can point to in their lives and say "that's what made me who I am today." Reading that book was one of those events for me. Anyways, 1984 puts a ton on emphasis on how language can be manipulated and used to destroy individual thought. The essay we read was so interesting because we saw how language was so important to Orwell... it put a lot of things in context, we were able to see just how essential language was in Orwell's writing and the role it played in his narrative structure.
I could go on and make a book about last class and why it was so interesting, but I'll stop myself. I've written enough. See everyone tomorrow!
-John
you made that book sound really good....so good almost I might even read it. Anyways I agree with you.. it is very interesting how language is used the wrong way; and how "we" as people don't even use the correct words when we think we have the right definition just from what we have heard from others, but the truth is half the time people dont use words in the right ways or the true meanings of them. You're blog had a lot of passion and it was very interesting. Any who...see you tuesday!
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