Reading Response 1984 Max F

              "1984" by George Orwell is about a rebel named Winston in a post World War II world. The time is one of depression, and oppression. The majority of the population is brainwashed, in which the Party and Big Brother are always right, and anything different is wrong. Essentially, it is a never-ending totalitarian government. This book also contains a lot of sex and torture and death, subjects adults think are inappropriate. 1984 is a mature book, meant for older kids. 1984 is inappropriate because of the sex in the book, and the bloodshed in the book.
             A lot of love scenes are in the book are described, and might be negative to the development of a child's mind. The first mention is in the beginning of the book when Winston decides to go "have fun" with a whore. After, he leaves and acts as if nothing had ever happened (Winston is divorced). Things heat up again when Julia falls on purpose, and gives Winston a note saying "I love you", and things start getting more dangerous. They meet at a secret hiding place, and make love to each other. They were making out for some hours before they stopped, and returned to their work place. Ever since then, they were meeting in random places carefully located, met and went to their next hideout, where in each meeting they would have sex. The amount of sex already mentioned is enough for some to ban kids from reading this book. "As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep...". This sort of thing is considered by many schools inappropriate, and it would be a bad influence on children. It can give kids the wrong ideas to this topic in the world, and this could end up hurting him in the real world, not to mention damaging his brain early on possibly. The book 1984 is inappropriate for kids because it involves a lot of sex scenes which can damage a child's understanding of the adult world.
            The bloodshed in 1984 I find gruesome. Between the rocket bombs killing hundreds, the Thought Police secretly arresting, killing, or making them an "unperson", and the wars taking hundreds of "war criminals" to be publicly executed, many can see why this book might be banned to kids. "Rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual. One fell on a crowded theater in Stepney, burying hundreds. Another fell on a piece of waste which was used as a playground, and several dozen children were blown to bits." Not even children were untouched by the bloodshed, which really gets to parents. Not many books available to kids actually have young children dying, or people dying in general in a book. This book can show that are kids are in danger everywhere, and make them paranoid. If the paranoia gets out of control in the child, he might kill people on suspicion, or commit suicide. Nobody is safe from the murder. A couple of bombs were dropped very close to Winston, destroying a nearby building. Winston is even arrested and brought to the Ministry of Love, where he is beat up, starved, and tortured to insanity. He finally gives in when they make him experience his worst fear in "Room 101", which are rats. He betrays his lover, and is rehabilitated, and set free. They later meet, but the relationship between them is gone. They talk about what happened, about the betrayal and the treatment in prison. Winston was even waiting for them to shoot him later, "the long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain", and he loves Big Brother now.
           An odd, but somewhat inappropriate thing in the book is simultaneously believing and not believing in something, a process known as doublethink. They use this process to control the people, this is how they make them believe that the Party and Big Brother are always right.
          1984 is a book that in many peoples eyes, is not meant for children to read. Winston's experiences with his lover, The prison known as The Ministry of Love,  This book contains potentially damaging content, that kids should not be able to read under 16.