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 * 11/30/2011 1984 "Should Reporters be required to submit their work to government officials so they can determine if it's a threat to the country?"**

On question number nine on the anticipation guide I disagree. Reporters shouldn’t be required to submit their work to government officials so they can determine if it’s a threat to the country. It totally goes against the right of free speech and the right of free press. The press absolutely needs the right to freedom of the press to show the country the news story, the bad stories, and about what the government is up to. When a government takes away this they are covering up the truth from the country. Changing the story show lies to the people. The citizens need to know the truth, the whole story in order to change society and their lives for the better. It is one of the basic rights and it is absolutely essential in giving power to the people. n fact questions, two, five, six, and seven all go against the basic rights citizens of a country should be entitled to. In the novel, 1984, the totalitarian government basically controls everything. They control what the people do, what their future is, and are able to alter their past by erasing history. They even control whom a person is to love. The government constantly spy on citizens and keep a watchful eye 24-7 with cameras hidden everywhere from public places to personal houses. Life is miserable for almost everyone in Oceania. One single doesn’t have any basic freedoms we have. One person cannot choose their own path or do as they please as the government is constantly surveying them and thinks of free thought as a threat and will choose the correct path for them. If the government catches any one trying to rebel by doing anything from physically attacking with weapons to jotting thoughts down a personal diary, the government will take them away and no one will every see them again. The children are trained to spy on the adult and keep them from rebelling. They are quite good at it and catch many in the act, some parents even fear their own children such as Mrs. Parson. In this totalitarian government no one has any rights and freedoms. Freedom of press is one right a country absolutely needs along with the others. With out these right the government controls everything and because the people have no say in what the government does, so they have no say in what they want in order to change their lives for the better. Yet with these basic rights and freedoms the people are able to act as a whole and decide what they want and need to change the government and their lives for the better.

The novel was published when communism was starting to spread to many different countries around the world mainly in the east. At the time many countries who didn’t have communism thought about changing as the way it worked seemed like a good easy way to manage a country. Many Western countries with democracy disagreed with communism and wanted to stop the spread of it. George Orwell did his part by creating a book about a system of government that controls each citizens actions and thoughts, basically everything. He created the novel to scare people around the world of what might happen if communism got out of control.
 * 12/4/2011 The intended audience for 1984.**