George Orwell: 1984, Chapters 1-3

All I knew about this book before I started to read it was based on the short introduction on the book's back cover. Because I found the introduction boring I thought that the book would be boring too. When I had read the first ten pages of the book I realized that 1984 might be one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

The book tells about Winston Smith who lives in a society where every citizen is keeped an eye on. The citizens know that "Big Brother is watching" and it means that they understand that anything they do might be supervised.

At the first chapter of 1984 it is told how Winston Smith buy a diary and is scared that the Thought Police would find out about it - especially because he has written on the book words "Down with Big Brother" . The Thought Police has very scary reputation because people who are attacked by Thought Police are simply disappered.

I couldn't avoid thinking that many things in this book are similar to what happened in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. For example it was common in Nazi Grmany that people reported to the police if they heard that some of their neigbors or relatives had said something negative about the government. In this book is mentioned how "child heroes "denounced their parents to Thaught Police. In the book is used word "comrade" instead of "mr." or "mrs" - just like in the Soviet Union.

I hope that I'm not interpreting too much but at this point of my reading I think that this book is trying to say me that people should have their own privacy and the government should not have too much power.