This book was written before 1984, even before World War Two! It's language and vocabulary as well as the literary techniques are very different as to what us students are used to today. For example, the end of chapter three is just a series of sentences that do not match, the point of view goes from one character to the next at every two phrases. THERE ARE TOO MANY THINGS GOING ON AT ONCE! It is extremely dizzying.
There are many little flashbacks that I supposed they should explain certain things in the book, but it just makes the reading more confusing. For example, to explain that experiments to teach children during their sleep were abandoned, a flashback of a small boy, Tommy, in inserted. In these five paragraphs, the readers learns that Tommy was exposed to a tape recording about the Nile river during his sleep. The next morning, he was able to recite word for word the tape recording, but if he was asked "what is the longest river in Africa," he would cry and say that he didn't know. The conclusion of this experiment was that "you can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about" (page 22). This flashback would have probably worked really good in the text if it was inserted properly, but it wasn't. It was just, you know, there. The texts has no consistency.
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