1984

Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket. What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one... The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars. Winston realized that he would have accepted three or even two. This shows how much Winston has slowly grown obsessed with the idea of the old world that he can only vaguely remember. As he works, Winston focuses on the question of whether the past permitted the citizens of Oceania more freedom, or if they are truly living a better life now. His newfound obsession is causing him to take uncertain risks. His quest for his answer about freedom pushes him into a pub among proles, which is considered suspicious behavior. This also involves missing a night at the community center one too many times in a few weeks.

In his book, "1984," George Orwell presents us with a situation where the children's behavior is feared by their parents:  Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel the discipline of the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother[--]it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children (24). Orwell depicts the children as "little savages" that appears to be very unaware of how serious the government of Big Brother actually...