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"The chosen lie would pass into permanent records and become truth"(Orwell 45).

Winston's job is using his imagination. He fabricates history in order to make it satisfactory to The Party. Living in a society where nothing is certain, the date, your name, events in books, nothing is necessarily real. How can people go along in a society where they live not knowing the difference between fact and fiction, not knowing enough to think and question for themselves the control of the Party As outrageous as this might be, does it, in a way relate to our society? Is this just a way of depicting how the media in our day and age manipulate stories in order to make flashy headlines or support their political stand point? Or is this just a totally separate unfathomable society. Although we have freedoms and can find for ourselves the information we want, the portrayals of the information we receive in order to make the writer's opinion seem more righteous draw parallels between the outlandishly twisted world of the book and our own, sometimes left uninformed world.