Hey ladies,
I know you three have topics that do not fit into any particular group in our class. Please feel free to post your ideas, questions, key passages, and/or resources here. I'll keep track of your conversation and participate in it myself.
Mrs. Robinson
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Ok, so I'm kind of confused on how I should start. I was going to talk a little about the discrimination of the Jewish population and why they are disliked so much. I'm trying to decide how to make that flow into how some people deny the Holocaust. And then try to correlate that with the way they treat History and mind control in 1984. I'm stuck. Any suggestions?
K.Kind
Kelsea,
Have you considered exploring why some people doubt what the media tells them (because this is what Holocaust deniers are sometimes claiming). This concept may relate to difficulty in accepting truth, for it is true that sometimes actual history has been censored or changed, so recording history becomes very important, as Winston in 1984 certainly discovered.
I don't know if this is helpful, but I am hoping it may inspire something you can research.
Mrs. Robinson
Kelsea,
I think I just had a breakthrough--what if you look at how some people believe only what they want to believe? Many people who deny the Holocaust ever happened do so because they WANT to blame the Jews for many attrocities. This could relate to 1984 and the subjective/objective reality, in a way. We only know what is in our minds, so that is truth to us. Does that make sense? Let me know if I need to elaborate more!
Mrs. Robinson
Thank you that helps a bunch!
k.kind
I posted really late, but what I really wanted to know at the time was other books I could've read to compare with 1984.
And even though I'm done with the essay, I want to know if there are any other dystopian/utopian type books that you can think of Mrs. Robinson
L. Backman
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