A Letter

I would like to write the letter to Winston Smith and to ask it some questions. So.

Dear Winston! 

How are you?
I still can't believe that you decided to start keeping the diary. You are very courageous, after all it was dangerous. Especially as the Big Brother always watches you. What will you do if the Thought Police learns what you do? Isn't it terrible for you? 

By the way, how are your relations with O’Brien?  Do you think he really is the member of the secret organization?  If so, would you like to join them?  

 I want to know what you think of all this very much.

Forgive me, but now I should go. I will read the following chapter about what go on around you. It is very interesting what will be.
With the best wishes,

                                Valery Z. 

P.S - Avoid that dark-haired girl who works with you. She can`t be trusted.

George Orwell

I think I should say a few words about the author.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and commitment to democratic socialism.Commonly ranked as one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century and as one of the most important chroniclers of English culture of his generation, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), which together (as of 2009) have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author. His book Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, is widely acclaimed, as are his numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms, including Cold War, Big Brother, thought police, Room 101, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.

The comment

I commented on the friend`s blog !

Emma Grigoryan - "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

Dear Emma!

I didn't read this book, but I think that it must be interesting. As well as you Den Brown's other works ("Da Vinci code" and "Angels and Demons") are familiar to me. I like these books very much and I think that "The lost symbol" mustn`t be less interesting. I will read your blog and your impressions with great pleasure. 

Enjoy reading!

Vocabulary

effort alternately simultaneously strenuousness demeanour float measurable mutability unimaginable decent remedied unconsciousness buttocks establish fabulous carriages evidence shrewish consumption pamphlets vaporized elaborately furnaces tedious occasion government vanishing commemorating tremendous formidable frightening starved ancestral borrowed treadmill

усилие попеременно одновременно напряженность поведение поплавок измеримый изменчивость невообразимый приличный исправлено беспамятство ягодицы установить невероятный коляски доказательства сварливый потребление брошюры испаряется продуманно печи утомительный повод правительство исчезновение память огромный грозный пугающий изморенный голодом наследственный заимствованы бегущая дорожка

Generally it is about...

Winston Smith is man who is a member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Wherewer he goes, everywhere  a face of the so-called Big Brother watces . Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens. Everywhere he  sees  the face of the Party’s leader, a figure known  as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it.

At the beginning Winston feels frustrated by the oppression and rigid control of the Party, which prohibits free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality.

I think this book about...

And now I will try to guess about what is this book. As it is the novel anti-utopia, it seems to me that it will be a question of  system in which people don`t feel well. Probably, they are suppressed by this system, but they are afraid to speak about it because they can be killed. Constantly someone watches them. This idea are suggested by a book cover. I think that the hero who rises against all this system has to be the main character of the book. And, I hope that finally, he will overthrow it. Perhaps, he will find adherents who will help with it. And still, maybe, he will have a girlfriend who will play a big role in everything. So, we will look, on how many I am right.

New day, new book

Hi, readers!
Today I`m going to start reading a new book. It`s "1984" written by George Orwell.

During a long time I could not determine with the choice of book that I`d like to read, because all that I found consisted of a small number of pages. As a result, I came across the novel "1984"  After I have found the same title in the our list of mandatory literature for the subject  "The literature and culture of the Great Britain and the United States of America", which dispelled my doubts about this book.

By the way, here is the web site which helped me http://english-e-books.net/. Perhaps one day it will help you, too, my reader.

So, I`m opening the first page...