Baylee Streit Valerie Ellsworth AP Language and Composition 11/10/15 Week 5-Soapstones The author Lewis Beale has chosen to speak from a more common group than a journalist. The speaker appears the author as a conspirator every day person. You can tell this by his bold comparisons between 1984 and our modern time. Just from the statement, “We are all Winston Smith. And Big Brother is the modern surveillance state,” you can see the bold statement and the warning speaking through. Also through this you can tell that the speaker is a conspirator because of is “end of the world” like tone and the bold statements like, “Comparisons between Orwell’s novel about a tightly controlled totalitarian future ruled ubiquitin Big Brother and today are, in fact quite apt.” That’s how you can assume the speaker is a conspirator. Obviously the occasion of the article is written in modern society and fairly recent (2013). You can tell this because the author makes some many comparisons to our society. Also he plainly addresses our society saying, “We live in a world that George Orwell predicted in ‘1984’.” The comparison between our modern tech and before 1984
