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If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 52 points 10 months ago (12 children)

George Orwell - 1984

https://tinyurl.com/go-1984

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Was offered this in high school. I read Brave New World and Island by Aldous Huxley instead. I'd say those.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I love Brave New World, but couldn't get into Island at all. I still have it though, I should give it another go.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The way into Island is really buying into the paradise that it would be and being willing to learn the ways of the Palanese. Oh, and a healthy disdain for the world you'd leave behind.

    I figure that's only gotten easier with time.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's a great book. It really awakened me in high school. I think kids should be forced to read it.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There's something deeply ironic about saying people should be forced to read Orwell...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    if only they can read that. they should be reading non-fiction works and doing an essay on that.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    If I had read 1984 in school and had to write an essay on it, especially these days, I'd write the essay as a compare and contrast between the dystopian predictions in the book vs actual current events and mass surveillance as things are today. So in that sort of way, it would actually be covering real world events as well as the book at the same time.

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