totalitarianism

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

After learning that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, a book-burning official in a future fascist state clandestinely pursues reading until he is betrayed.

A simplified edition of George Orwell's "1984," which depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future. Includes comprehension activities.

Finding that books were a vital part of a culture he never knew, a bookburning official in a future fascist state pursues reading in secret until he is betrayed.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night, " Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.

A book burning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, and he decides to pursue reading, until he is betrayed.