Written expression

Now that I have the right to say everything I want, let me tell you how it was, in 1984.

First, our lives were unbearable. We lived in a complete dystopia. None of us was free, there wasn't enough food, we were almost starving. Plus, there were posters everywhere! There were showing us a man, wih a heavy mustache, and beneath there was a text saying: "Big Brother is watching you", while cameras were filming every single thing that was in front of it. Nobody dared to go out of their houses. Our city looked like a wasteland. Everywhere we went, we felt stalked, or Under constant surveillance. We couldn't do what we wanted to, the government was telling us everything. It looked like a real totalitarism regime.

Secondly, we all had to wear an ugly blue uniform. And every week, we had to go in a big rooom to watch a film, which was showing us Big Brother ideology, and what he wanted us to do, or to act. We all were part of his regime, the 'ingsoc" as he called it. For him, war was peace, freedom was slavery, and ignorance was strenght. Loads of us were feeling trap. We couldn't go anywhere, or do what we wanted..  We were like toys that he was playing with. Fortunately for me, one day I found a corner of a room that was out of the cameras vision. So everyday I went in that corner, and I wrote in my diary everything I was feeling or thinking. It kind of prevent me from losing my mind.

I truly hope that you will never have to live what I've been through, or know a totalitarism regime like that. We all deserve to be free, and live in a wonderful utopia, not in that kind of dystopia.


(Julie R.)