Keagan Thomas answers “Why do people rate this book so high? ...”

Wilma asked this question about 1984:

Why do people rate this book so high? Surely I am missing something.

Keagan Thomas People rate this book so high simply because of the accuracy of his predictions to current and past events. He wrote the book as warning for the peopl…morePeople rate this book so high simply because of the accuracy of his predictions to current and past events. He wrote the book as warning for the people of the world after the end of WWII, particularly in response to Stalin and what was going on in the USSR at the time. Frightened by what he saw, he created a dystopian world in his novel where he hoped to frustrate and/or frighten the reader enough, they would prevent such a world from coming to reality. He predicted if the world didn't change what was going on soon, the world would be as described in the novel as early as 1984. Now we see his hellish world coming closer to being true especially after the Snowden NSA whistleblowing articles and of course the whole "fake news" mentality that's been going on lately. All of these events can be tied directly to the novel.(less)

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