1984 By George Orwell

Choosing one piece of literature for this essay, believe it or not, was a very difficult thing for me to do.   I read so much and this year I had read from a little bit of every genre that I had a plethora of choices to select from.   It is like choosing the special green grain of sand out of a handful of blue grains of sand.   In the end, I chose the book 1984 by George Orwell to use in this particular paper.  
Why did I choose this book, and how did I come across this individual piece of literature?   1984 is one of my favorite books I have read all year, but the book belongs to a category of literature that I usually don’t read.   Frankly, I was quite astonished at how fascinating the book really was.   It was one of the most noteworthy books I have read this year, yet it belonged to, in my opinion, a sometimes very monotonous field of fiction.     I chose to read this book for several reasons, too.   First of all, I had heard several people extol this book, and several people recommended it to me.   Expanding my reading to some genres that I was untried in seem like the appropriate step in my progress as a reader, and 1984 was the perfect choice from all that I had heard about it.   It turns out that 1984 did not let me down; quite on the contrary, it opened me up to a whole new world of fiction.  
George Orwell’s book 1984 has had a profound effect on me on many levels.   As a reader, the book unlocked a new genre of literature for me.   I learned George Orwell’s style and have become more familiar with his style of writing when I read his other book Animal Farm, so that helped me as a writer.   This book also gave me more experience in the works of great authors, but as a thinker, the book offered me a warning.   The way George Orwell portrays the events and the world that the main character, Winston Smith, lives in suggests that the author was trying to send a message to each and every one of his readers.   The author wanted to show the dangers of totalitarianism.   The...