Spring Break

So far Spring Break has been excellent. However I have not worked on my english project as much as I had planned. I was hoping to have finished a Brave New World by the end of break but I still have about two thirds of the book left to finish. I have been working a lot at my two jobs and when I come home I normally go for a run, take a shower and then try to see my friends for some amount of time. I have been reading, just very very slowly. The book has lost my attention for now and I feel that I must be in the mood to read it. If I'm not in the mood to read it I end up reading only a few pages, not paying enough attention and having to re-read it over and over again. I feel as though I have too much going on. School, two jobs, taking care of my horse Cutter and trying to see my friends as well is very difficult.

Dystopian Novel Study

A few days ago I began a study of Dystopian Novels. The novels that I have chosen to study are 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. My first thoughts after choosing this topic for my final senior english project is "How am I going to incorporate all this and tie it all together?", "How will I be able to demonstrate how these novels are dystopias if most programs will tell you that the word 'dystopia' is not even a word?" SO it came to me. The first thing that I would need is to give the reader a good background on exactly what a dystopia is. I would have to explain the characteristics and how a dystopia is created. Then I would be able to use the books that I am reading and the movie that I am watching in order to give examples of what a dystopia is. I would have to make my readers understand through my examples.

I have already begun reading one book, Brave New World. I have already finished reading 1984, as that was one of our previous required reading novels. So far I have noticed a great deal of similarities between the two and I am only on chapter 3 of Brave New World.