1984 the acceptance

The last few chapters of 1984 really bring out the personality in Winston. Being tortured shows his true colors and the power of the government. During his imprisonment and torture you move through the mind of a prisoner and his changing reflections on his society. You can also see the breakdown of the mind after weeks of torment. Then after the mind has been broken down into a fertile state, O'Brien starts rebuilding his sense of right. This is basically the acceptance of Big Brother and the actions of the government. After Winston has been taken care of you start to realize the power that a government force has towards its people. Winston was one of the few rebels and his life and past had been erased leaving no trace of his thoughts or rebel actions.

1984

As Winston and Julia (main characters) plot to see each other, it shows the intricate and clockwork set-up of the thought police. They talk to each other in quick bursts and hardly make eye contact in their short meetings. All that shows the understanding that they have towards the government and the dangerousness of their meeting. Both of their guards start slipping as they fall deeper and deeper into love. Once they have their meeting place in the old house they loose their consciousness of the thought police and stay with each other for hours at a time. All their actions are almost inevitably leading to their capture. What I wonder is if they know this or not...

1984

The beginning of this book starts as an eye opener towards what part of the media we see is the truth. The protagonists job in this novel is to take old newspapers or documentation and forge or re-write the headings and words to erase things that the government of Oceania doesn't want the people to see. In the book this makes it possible to "control" the past and wipe certain events or people from history. Who knows if our media is true, or if its all set-up by the government to mediate what we see as a population. The control that this government has over the city is unfathomable, all the while it gives a look into the thought process communist countries have.

Game of Thrones - End

The ending of this book really shocked me, and seeing how easily a main character is killed off changes how I will read the next books in this series. I also like how all of the individual plots come to a fairly definitive ending even though this is book 1 in a long series. This helps to give the book a strong ending and strengthens the series overall.

Game of Thrones - Middle

After reading more of the story I have come to appreciate the greyness that each character represents. This uncertainty in the morality of the characters really keeps you on your toes and even further helps to aid the feel of the book. My only real complaint is the true purpose of the story is sometimes lost in the characterization.

Game of Thrones - Intro

So far I am really enjoying the Game of Thrones. The introduction was very strong, and it gives you an immediate feeling of urgency. This also really got me into the story right away. Additionally you can see betrayals right from the get go, and it really aids the reader in knowing what direction the story is going in.

A Clockwork Orange And The Concept Of Conformity.

Throughout the novella conformity is used as an antagonistic force to free will, and to show how civilization will force conformity on humanity for its own ends and ensure the loss of individualism. Anthony Burgess achieves this through many different methods within the novel. The most obvious is the use of the Ludovico technique to show a literal enforcement of conformity within the society of A Clockwork Orange. However there are many other examples as well. Others are within part three like the constant displays of evil from other members of society towards Alex; Where the citizens of London within A Clockwork Orange break the conformity of their everyday lives by acting evil and beating on Alex. This shows that the citizens are genuinely just as evil as Alex, but act kind due to the force of conformity. Even the language within the A Clockwork Orange forces conformity. Due to Anthony Burgess' creation of a practically new language with which many of the characters speak, he is enforcing conformity on the reader. All readers must learn and understand the language to be able to read the book, thus forcing all the readers to conform to the same understanding. Thus in conclusion, conformity is used as an antagonistic force to free will, and to show that individualism, our birth right, is removed by society.

Beloved

"124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it ans so did the children." (Morrison 1) Morrison begins the novel with an interesting image. The 1st sentence sets a dark, eerie tone not only by the diction but also by the way its written, in capital letters. The capital letters emphasize how spiteful the house is. The second sentence paints an image of something deadly and poisonous inside the house. The fact that the people in the house know about it implies the unwanted thing has been there for a while and has become part of the house. This foreshadows scary and eerie events to come in the rest of the novel. This introduction captures the reader's attention, making them want to read more to find out what's to come in the rest of the book.

Warbreaker

The ending is definitly the best part of the novel. This is probably because of the build up of tension throughout of the book.

This novel was very well written by Brandon Sanderson, and I hope to see a sequel to this novel, just because it is very unique.

In the second part of this book I found that the only reason Lightsong inspected those tunnels was because he wanted to find himself. There was no other reason, even though in the novel the character thought it was.

Now at the end of this novel, just about every question that is going through ones mind is answered. We do find out that what Lightsong was dreaming was infact a vision of the future. We also learn who Lightsong actually was before he died and that his High Priest was his brother.

However in the end, Lightsong gives up his life in order to save the two nations of Idris and Hallandren, making it the second time he has died saving lives.

The ending is very open for a sequel, and although Brandon Sanderson has stated that this novel was to be a stand-alone novel, he said that he would be writing a second book in this universe but probably in a different part of the "world".

I know this will probably be a long time before this happens, however I still can't wait for the next book.

Warbreaker

Even though I am reading this novel for the second time, Lightsong still has to be my favourite character. He is witty, smart and knows what just to say at the right moment.

I have already read through half of the novel, and I have already figured things out that I have not figured out before. Before I believed that Clod the lifeless was just a person that they had bought, when in reality, Clod the Lifeless is Arsteel, one of the five scholars and friend to Vasher and Denth.

Another point is that, when Vasher snuck around the Court of the Gods tunnel, he made sure not to kill anyone, however when we looked at the murder through Lightsongs view point, someone was killed. This can only lead to the one option. Denth was following Vasher, and Denth was the one to kill the man. Since Denth wants revenge against Vasher, that is a likely option.

What I also notice better is the role reversal of the two princesses, Siri and Vivenna. As the story has progressed for the half of the novel so far, we see that Siri went from being an emotional outbursting type of person to a person who has learned to control her emotions and look like how a princess should look. While Vivenna, went from being everything one would expect a princess to be, to someone who has lost control of her life.

Lightsong stayed Lightsong. The same person I read about the last time. The same god who doesn`t believe in his own religion.

Well that is all so far. I will post again when i'm done the book.

Warbreaker

Warbreaker has to be one of my favourite novels I have ever read. Since I have already read the novel before, this time I shall be working on finding the little details throughout the book like something I had not picked up on before, which I know will probably greatly improve of how I think of the book.

Warbreaker was my first Sci-Fi Fantasy novel, and with its plot twists, excitement, crazy magic system, and a unique story, it introduced me to the genre.

The author, Brandon Sanderson, is a very unique writer, where he will not write a type of story that has already been used in the genre, such as a poor boy defeating a dark wizard. He likes his stories to be unique, and anyone who picks up a Brandon Sanderson novel will find the story new and one would feel part of the story. His characters are also ones you would not expect either. For example, the hero in Warbreaker is not the typical hero one would think of. He is not the man wearing large shinning armour, leading a great army into battle, but a rough looking person who works in the shadows, through diplomacy rather than fighting. However fighting is inevitable for a hero of this genre, and there are some fights involving him.

Time to start reading Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

A Clockwork Orange and the issue of forced kindness.

After Alex is finally reformed due to the Ludovico technique, he is released back into the normal world. Here we are shown the true kindness of humanity. Every person Alex had met prior to his incarceration has turned against him, friends and family alike. They rather beat him, rape him or force him to try to commit suicide.

This shows us the moral of forcing someone to be one way. As the rest of the world does not work in a shade of white or black, forcing a man to be at such will destroy them as it impede's their ability to react. This can be seen when the old man, who Alex attacked prior to his incarceration, attacks Alex in the library and Alex has no choice but to beaten by him. Despite Alex having paid for his crime. This shows that even the "good" people Alex was reformed to co-operate with are not perfectly innocent and thus that the Ludovico technique is in essence a failure.

A Clockwork Orange and the Importance of Free Choice.

We see throughout the novel the arguement of whether or not man should have free choice. Do we allow monstrous men continue to do as they please unabated, or force them to conform with the rest of humanity?

We see the two sides of this confrontation from the religious men and the government within the novel. The government says that to keep and continue order within the society they must force civillians who act like a monsters to be forced normal (represented in the Ludovico technique) so that society can continue.

The religious men believe that choice should be allowed no matter what, as without choice humans become little less then animals.

In the end we find that free choice is ultimately the best answer, but in this case comes far too late.