The Ending To 1984 And The U.S.

The ending of 1984 left me pondering the idea of the control of the government, one of the major themes of the book. It is interesting the idea of torture to change people and to get people to divulge information especially about the others in their society. Another  parallel that we seen between our society and Oceania. Recently we have seen the U.S. use torture as a mechanism to intimidate and interrogate other people, despite it being against our constitution. They can get away with if it is beyond our borders or if it is done to non-U.S citizens, which is basically bending the rules while most people turn a blind eye. It is interesting to think that one day the U.S. and the CIA could bend the rules in our own country and people would be tortured for information, even for fairly menial bits. It could easily happen and it has in various points in war time, as well as incidents including camps for the Japanese American citizens in California. The hidden power and potential of the government is quite scary when we look at from a far.
I think that 1984 is a really interesting book because of the parallels to our society today; however, the plot itself I found not as compelling and I was never that engaged. Still worth the read but it is not as fast paced and mind blowing as I thought it would be, due to the great reviews that it receives even to this day.