{"id":1395975,"date":"2016-12-31T13:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1395975"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:39:44","slug":"blogging-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging 1984<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I first \u201cread\u201d \u00a01984<\/em> \u00a0in maybe grade eight, and the main \u00a0memories are of my English teacher writing \u201cBIG BROTHER\u201d and \u201cNEWSPEAK\u201d up on the blackboard, lest we miss the \\subtlety\/ of George Orwell’s writing. As the saying goes, behind every book \u00a0with one or more eyeballs on the front cover is an author with a Very Important, Zero-Chill Message, and George Orwell was about as chill \u00a0as his artistic contemporary Shia LeBeouf. George wanted you to be ~ready~.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hot on the heels of the fantastic \u00a0Blogging The Great Gatsby<\/a> \u00a0<\/em>and \u00a0Blogging Lord of the Flies<\/a>, \u00a0<\/em>I hereby commit to chronicling \u00a0my way through the venerable political text that \u00a0brought us \u00a0the self-same TV show \u00a0Big Brother, \u00a0<\/em>and, by extension, \u00a0Survivor, The Hills<\/em>, and my fav reality show of all time, the panda cam at the San Diego Zoo. I doubt I can hit the high notes Elodie has rung out, but perhaps we can toddle through this thing in time for your essay that is due\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n