1984

Dear Boethius,

I live in a world that you would not expect. This town is called Oceania. In this place the party controls everything, including the human mind. This world is completely different than yours so that is why I am going to tell you everything that has happened since you ruled.

The party controls everything because they do not want people trying to fight for rights and so they can stay in power. In this world they can control the human mind unlike you can. The power to the people has gone down. Something that the people say is “For to change one’s mind or even one’s policy is a confession of weakness.” (Page 223). The people in this new world have to believe it or else the thought police would come after them. In this world no one is allowed to have free thoughts.

Our leader is named Big Brother and everyone is so supposed to love him. Although the only problem is there are some people on the other side. Well if the thought police caught them they would be taken to the ministry of love. The ministry of love is not the best place to go. They torture you until you believe in Big Brother and confess to what you have done. As most people in the party say “He who controls the past controls the future, he who controls the future controls the past.” (Page 39). What they mean is that if you are put in the ministry of love you are erased from all of history as if you did not exist.

“Thought crime does not entail death: thought crime is death.” (Page 32). When you get committed of a thought crime you don’t just get taken to the ministry of love, they also take you to a room where no one ever wants to go. That room is room 101. This is the worst room in the entire building. Although when you first go into the ministry of love all you do is get hit. Well that is only the beginning. People think that it is their worst nightmare, but it is even worse. It is so bad that when people go in they never come out and that probably happens because they go into room 101. Well I don’t know all the exact details about it because I have never been there. Room 101 is where most people die. Let’s just put it this way I am afraid of Room 101. The worst thing is that the government turns kids on their parents so they are little mini spies. Also about 40 percent people caught were caught by their kids. Well now you know what our world like today is and how much it has changed since you have been gone. Well I am going before I get caught.