Update: All questions over the book are answered.

[Feliks]

Oh yeah, we'll get right back to you on that. Stay alert for our call.

[One]

It's about the joy of fascism.

[Henna]

You should be a bit more precise when asking questions like this. "All" is always too much to explain. Also, if it´s a study, you probably have a teacher too. Why can´t you ask him/her? Or some of your fellow-students, who knows the task? In that way you would be able to have a real discussion and learn much more than asking some random people on internet.

[Nicole]

Ireny wrote: "Can't understand it at all. tried different resources, but they confused me more. can someone explain it in simple words? need it for my study. Thanks a lot :)"

I read it as a teenager. I consider myself fairly literate but I do remember having a difficult time following it in places, so don't feel bad. Where are you in the book?

[E.D.]

Well....this girl likes this guy...the guy likes her....then there's this big brother who has a party.........

[Candy]

I didn't really understand the book till the ending. Also check out sparknotes.com for any additional help.

[Peter]

It's about totalitarianism. It's a dystopian view of the world at the time it was written (there's the claim that Orwell originally titled the book "1948" with the publisher insisting on changing the title to something that would make it seem more like a futuristic improbable dystopia rather than "this is the effed-up world we're living in today," but this is possibly just legend, despite having a certain credibility).

A lot of the book is timeless, even archetypical: the struggle of "the little guy," the "cog in a big machine" to maintain his individuality against an overwhelming apparat. The end is almost inevitable (but no explicit spoilers today).

The book can be read as "this is what life is really like under Communism in the Soviet Union (or the GDR, or North Korea)." Or maybe it's what it's like in the UK or the USA (either in 1948 or 1984 or today or tomorrow).

No, it doesn't have the special effects of Hunger Games. It's not a comic book. (Yes, I know HG isn't actually a graphic novel, but it should be.)

[mkfs]

Come on guys, there's a Thug Notes on this:

1984

That should be all you need!

[Ashitha Mary]

really? i don't think so......