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1984 by George Orwel is a dramatic novel portraying a restricted society. Winston Smith is a thin, 39 year-old man who wears blue Party coveralls. Winston is sick of the Party's rigid control over his life and world, and begins trying to rebel against the Party--writing defiant thoughts in a secret diary and starting an illegal affair with Julia. Julia a beautiful dark-haired girl working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. A mysterious and …

…what can happen when governments are given too much power. It also shows us how such governments can develop, and what methods they use to keep the people they are governing in their power. I though this book was very interesting, because of just how the government works and how it relates us. The only thing I didn’t like about the book was that it was getting confusing during the middle of the book.