Monday 18 November 2013

Describe the diary entry of a desensitized child in 1984, showing what he or she would think and say in response to the stimuli he/she typically...

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particular task has some challenges embedded within it.  Diary entries are usually reflective of
sensitivity.  Someone who has a sensitivity towards society, themselves, or others feels
compelled to write down their thoughts.  The question here is whether someone who is
desensitized would be able to compose their thoughts in a diary format.  If so, what would it
look like?  A diary entry, in general, is composed of an individual's reflections about the
world and, perhaps, their place in it.  In a diary entry of someone desensitized to their world,
it seems that sentences would be declarative, informative, and short.  There would be little in
way of reflection or expression because such elements contain a sensitivity that someone who has
been desensitized lacks.  This would be the condition that the Party wants out of its citizens.
 Lacking reflection and lacking...

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