For my Independent Literary Response Project I have chosen to compare the following two texts; George Orwell’s, “1984” and” Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”. These texts were chosen because upon researching them I developed a great deal of interest in the plots, and upon starting to read them I was immediately submerged in the capturing storyline. I very much like science fiction novel and ideals involving the topics of seemingly impossible or unimaginable scenarios, and both of the works that I chose have a certain aspect of science fiction to them. “The Road” is book solely about a young boy and his father living in an apocalyptic word that is run by gangs, rapists, cannibals and families clinging on the edge of life. Almost no life exists anymore, the conditions people face each day are unforgiving: abandoned houses, rotting corpses, raging fires and near to nothing as food goes. …show more content…
As for “1984”, I found this book interesting because even though it was written in the 1940’s it has a lot of relevance to modern day society. In the story we see that the general populace is monitored by a totalitarianistic government called “BB” or “Big Brother”. This was relevant to the time it was written because many people in Nazi Germany were living under this kind of government dictatorship ruling, but it is also relevant know because the government is watching us more and more closely everyday much like they do in the book with the monitors and hidden cameras everywhere. I found it fascinating that a book written so long ago could hold so much relevance to modern day times. The book offered the science fiction that, as stated before I love to read about, and a story that I could relate to on a very minimal scale, as everything we do now is monitored as