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I have this Reader Response Essay done I need you to add a compelling, interesting, and good introduction. You will need to choose a quote from the book, 1984 and inserted that quote throughout my work properly insert the quote anywhere in the paper, and briefly explain the quote. If you can add few more words to my conclusion is perfect. The response should cover 850 words

The Rebellious Doctrine

From the way that our kids behave, it clearly shows the effect of the totalitarian regime on them. When Winston agreed to help Mrs. Pearson unclog her kitchen, he met her two children who started threatening him by telling him, “I’ll vaporize you”  and calling him names like “thought criminal” (Orwell 23). While Winston was walking away, the boy hit him with a catapult on the back of his head. Winston interpreted this behavior as caused by the influence of the party, as they looked to be under submission to him.

The totalitarian regime is of great influence to the lives of children as it can adversely interfere with their self-nature and turn them into some of its followers. From the state of conduct of Parson’s kids, I think that they brainwashed by the oppression of the party and made them insistently ask about they were going to see hanging at the park that evening. Such behavior shows complete devotion to the party and how children get into its teachings and obey everything associated with it. Allowing a totalitarian regime to be in control of a kid’s life is the most dangerous thing as it will force them to lose their individuality and creates a society that has a negative perception of everything that they come across.

From this scenario, Parson’s boy is used to represent the children’s view of their commitment and entitlement to the rule of the party. From his behavior, the boy was under control, and his loyalty to the party made him to act as a spy who was ready to serve the state.  From his conduct, I think that he was ready to hold the pistol, and serving the nation was not a game but reality. As a result of their conduct, the Parsons was forced to commit a crime, a thought crime, or something of that sort.

I think there is a good example of how the totalitarian regimes can affect young people that arise from the misconduct of the boy. The author uses an intimidating method while describing the child’s behavior, “a calculating ferocity” (Orwell 23). From this, the author presents a form of an explicit message which shows the total devotion of the children to the party. The same also acts as a reflection of the much damage that they have been exposed to. The author describes these children as “gambling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters” (Orwell 23). The author points out how scary they could turn into in the future.

Looking at the intensiveness of the surveillance and manipulation applied by the party to the children, I think of Hitler’s Youth movement, and not only in the way that these children confess to their parents, against the party but also how they were used to adore the party, by putting their loyalty first over other important elements in their life. This symbolizes Hitler’s ideology, which coincidentally works in the same manner, while at the same time applying the same concept in which lives are taken away unconsciously while being used. The distinction of the future reality that if it is starts from kids there is no way a change can be made, and therefore their entire regime will be accepted without any further discussion.

The author uses a catapult to symbolize an act of the complete oppression of individuality together with a thought from the party, which reminds Winston the remarkable sign of oppression. With this still in his mind, Winston must have developed fear of children as he thinks that they can also influence him and be turned into a spy, as the kids have done (Orwell 24). I also think that Winston thinks that these children would probably represent the actual spies who will be trusted by the party against their families in the future. As I conclude, the scene provides a clear personification of the corrupt nature of a totalitarian regime in which everything can be easily managed and where the lives of children do not matter other than being taken for advantage and used in the control of the future. Also, I feel that the lives of these kids can be used in a better way towards enabling them achieve their capabilities without the need to be controlled by anyone on doing what is right and what is wrong.

Work cited

Orwell, George. 1984. New American Library, 1961.