My favorite book this year. by Jesse

My favorite book this year. by Jesse - October 2020 Scholarship Essay

The best book I have read in 2020 was 1984 by George Orwell. I chose this book because it had a very entertaining and complicated plot to it. The book follows Winston as he goes through his life in this future society (now in the past but future for the time that it was written). I think it is also most prevalent to this year.
Personally I love dystopia novels that introduce an idea of what life would be like if we were limited from one of our basic functions. In the case of 1984 it introduces the idea that we are not only limited in what we are allowed to say but even what we can think, something that is so secretive to each individual yet in this timeline it is wide open to "big brother." This novel is tests how we think about the government and it tests the idea of if they are really watching all the time. This novel left me longing for more for weeks after I finished reading it. I wished that he had stuck to his guns even though he would have died to the rats. People don't surpass a suppressive government such as the one in 1984 with out a little sacrifice.
Another reason why it is the best novel that I have read this year is because it is very prevalent this year. People have been super scared about the idea that the government is conditioning us to stand six feet apart and all that with the idea of the corona virus. People are very angry at the government and how it has been ran over the last few years and this is a good sign that we hopefully won't have cases such as 1984. When people fight for what they want and don't except it to be what it will be then we can take preventative measures to insure that this future doesn't happen.