The main character gave in to "the system" and might as
well have been dead, for all the free thought he had. i.e. he
had none. He seems to have been the last character to dare
do anything that "Big Brother" didn't like. He just became
a mindless cog in a vast machine. This sounds too much like
the end of the world to anyone who likes to be different.

Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
> > >
> > >     Ehh? Did I miss something?
> >
> > George Orwell's book  "1984". Required reading in my English Lit. class
> > in high school.
> >
> 
>     One of my favorites, but I don't remember anything about the world
> ending in it...?

-- 
Mr. Art

"Often the appearance of reality is more important 
than the reality of the appearance."
Bill DeWitt 2000

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