Loved this book!!! Similarities were startling!!
1. References to THOUGHTCRIME: you don't even have to actually DO anything wrong to be condemned, just thinking about ,or LOOKING like you were thinking about something was a SIN
2.Everyone is always watching everyone else to make sure no one is doing or thinking something they shouldn't
3.KUDOS for anyone that turns in a BONAFIDE sinner
4.changing history that no one acknowledges : The alliance with Eurasia -We've always had an alliance with Eurasia and we've always been at war with Eastasia /Two months later Nooo, we've always had an alliance with Eastasia and always been at war with Eurasia
5.Newspeak- having a Language within a language that immediately identifies Just how IN you are
6.Writing in the paper that there were demonstrations in the streets :
THANKING Big Brother for RAISING the chocolate ration to 20 grams per wk,(Yay to Big Brother)
where yesterday, they announced they were REDUCING the ration of chocolate to 20 grams per wk. AND THEY BOUGHT IT NO QUESTIONS!!!!!
any of this sound familiar to those who haven't read the book? Ya need to read it because it gets better!!!!
Stephanie