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This is literally what YouTube is like though. The less educational content is, the more likely they are to remove or age restrict it. NileGreen made a video about this recently, it's kinda long but you can watch it if this sounds interesting.
1984 is more appropriate for adolescents than for kids under tweens. If anyone has read the ending, the imagery in Room 101 is pretty graphic. There are also sexually suggestive imagery in the middle of the book.
The best dystopian book for kids that warns of authoritarianism would be Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm imo. The latter was my introduction to George Orwell by my teacher just before I entered adolescence.
Tweens know what sex is. This is needlessly prudish. They all have seen graphic videos/images of people blown apart on the beaches of Normandy by this point.
I read The Giver in 4th grade, assigned reading mind you. Let’s unpack that one lmao
I did say 1984 is probably not apt for those under tween age. The cartoon post depicting the kids don't look like tweens. They look like seven or eight years old or maybe even younger.
My bad I missed the “under”
Fun fact: 1984 by George Orwell is legal in China
but as you can see, it doesnt matter
people don't make the connection to IRL
On Elon Musk's X, animal abuse is the safe content.
Just buy a tesla and a smartphone. Those are the spy machines described in the book. The difference is that the 1984 government had to hide that stuff in your house and now, people even pay for them.
Is 1984 banned? That was mandatory reading...
It and Fahrenheit 451 are, ironically, among some of the most banned books in the US.
That's funny, they were both required reading where I am in the U.S.
Literally 1984
Any librarian worth their salt would find a secret way to get that kid his book
I watched the library in my high school downsized repeatedly during and after my time in school.
They went from half a dozen librarians to one. They purged their collections of microfilm and whittled away any research tools that weren't just on a computer. They stopped ordering new books for the most part by the time my sister graduated.
I believe they've since renovated the space to convert a big chunk of it into more classrooms.