2009 - A Book Review
The story begins on January 20, 2009: "It was a cold and brisk day in January, and the clocks struck twelve, a new leader sworn in." The date is questionable, because it is what Mr. Smith perceives. In the story's conclusion, he perceives it as irrelevant, because the State will arbitrarily alter and control it; the year 2009, the world is transforming. The Ministry of Hope describes the world as how they perceive it; a terrifying vision of how civilization will be forced to change in order to achieve a better society. Mr. Smith warns that people might believe that everyone must not become slaves to the administration in order to have an orderly society at the expense of the freedom of the people. The Ministry of Change describes the world through capture and imprisonment, interrogation, torture, and re-education to create a quest for that utopian society.
Setting – Americana, one of the three totalitarian superpowers that rule the world using censorship and pure terror. 2009 Portrays terrifying images and conveys horrifying truths in a stern voice that contrasts effectively with the true horrors of the message “Hope and Change.” Foreshadowing and suspense is used to heighten this exciting novel.
Plot - In 2009, Mr. Smith lives in Akron Ohio, which is part of the new country Americana. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Americana, Eurasia, and Islamia. Americana, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by the Utopia, which censor and controls everyone’s behavior. Mr. Smith is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Society, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the new administration.
One day, while walking home, Mr. Smith encounters Mr. Jones, a Society member, who gives Smith his address. Smith has exchanged glances before with Jones before and dreamed about becoming a member of the Society. Since Smith hated the party as much as Jones did, they went to his house together where they were introduced into the Society. Mr. Jones is actually a faithful member of the resistance. The Society celebrates the false facts of a news bulletin reporting Americana’s recent, decisive victory over Islamia. Mr. Smith imagines himself back when liberty, freedom and the American way ruled the land, instead of the motivation of the administration to achieve some future paradise, to retain power for the Utopia, which has become an end in itself. Mr. Smith outlines a terrifying vision of how the administration is changing the old ways and the people in order to achieve more power, for the abolition of the family, the rule of law, and the human spirit.
Symbols - Secret Sunset, the World Government emblem of the administration for Hope and Change, which all members must wear. Actually, it is the symbol that gives the appearance of celibacy while actually symbolizes the players in the great political Utopian game. It is a bold new, red symbolic horizon for Americana, a new world.
"People of the Americana, People of the World, This is our moment, This is our time.”
Quotes:
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator”
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
“In the end, that's what this Utopia is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? “
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.”
“We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.”
Setting – Americana, one of the three totalitarian superpowers that rule the world using censorship and pure terror. 2009 Portrays terrifying images and conveys horrifying truths in a stern voice that contrasts effectively with the true horrors of the message “Hope and Change.” Foreshadowing and suspense is used to heighten this exciting novel.
Plot - In 2009, Mr. Smith lives in Akron Ohio, which is part of the new country Americana. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Americana, Eurasia, and Islamia. Americana, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by the Utopia, which censor and controls everyone’s behavior. Mr. Smith is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Society, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the new administration.
One day, while walking home, Mr. Smith encounters Mr. Jones, a Society member, who gives Smith his address. Smith has exchanged glances before with Jones before and dreamed about becoming a member of the Society. Since Smith hated the party as much as Jones did, they went to his house together where they were introduced into the Society. Mr. Jones is actually a faithful member of the resistance. The Society celebrates the false facts of a news bulletin reporting Americana’s recent, decisive victory over Islamia. Mr. Smith imagines himself back when liberty, freedom and the American way ruled the land, instead of the motivation of the administration to achieve some future paradise, to retain power for the Utopia, which has become an end in itself. Mr. Smith outlines a terrifying vision of how the administration is changing the old ways and the people in order to achieve more power, for the abolition of the family, the rule of law, and the human spirit.
Symbols - Secret Sunset, the World Government emblem of the administration for Hope and Change, which all members must wear. Actually, it is the symbol that gives the appearance of celibacy while actually symbolizes the players in the great political Utopian game. It is a bold new, red symbolic horizon for Americana, a new world.
"People of the Americana, People of the World, This is our moment, This is our time.”
Quotes:“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator”
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
“In the end, that's what this Utopia is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? “
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.”
“We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.”
A Comparison: Nineteen Eighty-Four, a 1949 novel by George Orwell
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