Differing viewpoints in media coverage help bring clarity to current events
The summer before high school, I read "1984" by George Orwell. As I was still grasping the English language and needed lots of assistance in understanding the content, it was a challenging yet rewarding novel. I began to uncover the meanings behind Orwell’s words in the fictionalized dystopia. There were many things in the book that captivated my attention, yet there was a particular scene when the protagonist was captured, interrogated and forced to accept a lie as a fact. While I was reading at the time, I thought it was a very dramatic, rather extreme expression of some failing human cognitions, but it seems to be a very real and familiar flow of minds that surrounds us today.