While there were definitely parts I didn't quite understand at the time due to my age and innocence, it had a profound impact on me.
After reading 1984, I later read both Animal Farm and H.G. Wells' Brave New World. Learned about both of those reading the description on the back of the 1984 paperback, as this was pre-Internet days. Doubt too many kids my age did the same.
In high school, they had us read parts of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and memorize a speech from it. We also had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Animal Farm was out of the high school curriculum as early as the 1990s, it appears.
I read 1984 in 1984. I was still in grade school.
While there were definitely parts I didn't quite understand at the time due to my age and innocence, it had a profound impact on me.
After reading 1984, I later read both Animal Farm and H.G. Wells' Brave New World. Learned about both of those reading the description on the back of the 1984 paperback, as this was pre-Internet days. Doubt too many kids my age did the same.
In high school, they had us read parts of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and memorize a speech from it. We also had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Animal Farm was out of the high school curriculum as early as the 1990s, it appears.