How George Orwell's "1984" Connects to Today (Extra)

      What makes a book a classic is that no matter how long it was written ago, it still connects to today. George Orwell's book "1984" is about a government that watches peoples' every move. There saying in the book is "Big Brother is Watching You" (Orwell). This is one of my favorite books because it was so interesting reading about a government that was this controlling. Then when I was reading an article about how all public transportation in New York has surveillance cameras monitoring people's every move a connect occurred to me. I thought to myself, George Orwell's book has some connections to today's society. There is always individuals watching our every move in public making sure we are acting appropriate. Privacy does not exist anymore in our society and there is always a "big brother" watching us. People have the ability now to find ways to search our Facebook's and find things that we thought we deleted online. George Orwell is brilliant in the fact that he created a society in his book, that in some aspects is similar to what we live in now. Obviously, we are not living in a Communist country thankfully, but the lack of privacy that individuals have is similar to what people faced in the book "1984". Also, people have the ability to manipulate others into believe something. Government and higher authority figures have the ability to convince somebody to believe something in our society. In the book the government convinced the individual that "2+2=5" (Orwell). This connects to our society because if you convince and manipulate somebody enough an individual can believe the craziest things. Now, our society is no way near the extremes that the people had to face in the book "1984", but an individual could argue that there are some similarities that do occur between our society and the story. George Orwell is a brilliant writer and his story is a classic because of how some parts connect to us today.