ECCI UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES MODERN LANGUAGES PROGRAM

Subject: Professional English I Literature – 3rd Term Group: 5BN
Teacher: YEISON DUQUE Date: May 04, 2021 Doc. Type: Workshop 1

Luis Enrique Lozano Trilleras

Literature Circle 3rd Term – Book Analysis 1

OBJETIVES: By the end of the workshop, you will have:
✔ reviewed some key elements from the Titles/ books Presented today (Tuesday, May 4, 2021)

✔ analyzed some of the main social and contextual factors developed in today’s books.

1984 by George Orwell

1. In your own words what is dystopia and how it relates to Orwell’s 1984 book.
It is something fictitious, and it is represented in a totalitarian party, repressing and torturing people
so that they think like them.

2. What is/are the story's idea(s)?

mind control, dictatorships

3. What is the story's message or main point?

I understood power as it corrupts societies, they want to control everything even our minds

4. What decisions must the characters make?

revolution or escape

5. What kind of people are the characters? Consider: beliefs/hopes/dreams/ideals/

values/morals/fears/strengths/weaknesses/vices/virtues/talents

Repressed, sad, and without aspirations, on the other hand the people of the party are cruel

Bonus:

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 ECCI UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES MODERN LANGUAGES PROGRAM
Subject: Professional English I Literature – 3rd Term Group: 5BN
Teacher: YEISON DUQUE Date: May 04, 2021 Doc. Type: Workshop 1

Who is George Orwell? Speak a little bit about him. Paraphrase your ideas. Do not copy and paste.
Do not just talk about his biography, but his ideals, desires, characteristics as a writer.
He was a writer who wanted to publicize the wars he lived through, and demonstrate a not too
distant future
(insert an image /photo of the author)

A clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

In your own words how the topic of dystopia is evidenced in Burgess’s book, 1984.
The dystopian world is evident, in Alex's wickedness, for him it is a violent world, likewise
it is evident when they try to wash his head

What is/are the story's idea(s)?

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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES MODERN LANGUAGES PROGRAM
Subject: Professional English I Literature – 3rd Term Group: 5BN
Teacher: YEISON DUQUE Date: May 04, 2021 Doc. Type: Workshop 1

Violence, anarchy, mind control, torture, suffering

What is the story's message or main point?

I relate that the main idea may be the carma Alex towards very bad things and very bad
things happened to him, as well as the morbidity that the human being feels to control or
do new things

What decisions must the characters make?

Maybe reflect, a brainwash but naturally

What kinds of person/people are the character(s)? Consider: beliefs/hopes/dreams/ideals/

values/morals/fears/strengths/weaknesses/vices/virtues/talents
The characters are violent, lustful, arrogant, rebellious, crazy, likewise there are noble or
ambitious characters for their own purpose

Bonus:
Who is Anthony Burguess? Speak a little bit about him. Paraphrase your ideas. Do not copy and
paste. Do not just talk about his biography, but his ideals, desires, characteristics as a writer.
(insert an image /photo of the author)

He is a writer who lost his wife, they raped her and for this cruel act, I inspired him to write the
mechanical orange

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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES MODERN LANGUAGES PROGRAM
Subject: Professional English I Literature – 3rd Term Group: 5BN
Teacher: YEISON DUQUE Date: May 04, 2021 Doc. Type: Workshop 1

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