A significant passage from 1984

‘Goldstein! bellowed the boy as the door closed on him. But what most struck Winston was the look of helpless fright on the woman grayish face’.

First, I shall explain the situation in the passage. ‘The boy’ is the son of Parsons, Winston’s fellow worker, who is the leader of various committees and volunteer activities, though he is rather fat in appearance. ‘The woman’ is the boy’s mother or Parson’s wife. The boy, like any other child in his age at that time, hates the Thought-criminals and traitors, worships Big Brother, and adores the banners, songs, slogans, and processions. Winston happens to go to their house to help with some mechanical problems, and meets this boy yelling at him, “Traitor!” and throwing something on his neck with a catapult. In addition, in a later part of the novel, the younger sister of him listens to her father, Parsons, talking “Down with Big Brother” in his sleep through a keyhole. Immediately after his little daughter accuses him to patrols of the thought crime, next day, Thought Police takes Parsons to a prison. Children in the book 1984 are depicted as ‘little savages’. As you might have predicted, the government is brainwashing children because they are the ones who might lead Oceania.

I believe this passage is significant. A similar phenomenon is happening in Korea these days. Some teachers in schools tend to brainwashing students, especially young elementary school children, saying that The United States is the ‘bad guy’ and that we should unify with North Korea to be able to repulse the US, since we alone are too weak. I feel that those teachers might have some connections with the North, or be brainwashed themselves by the North. It is a serious crime to implant incorrect ideas to the brains of young children imperceptibly. It will make their flexible thinking permanently while world always goes through changes. In fact, several students in my age think that the US is always acting bad, violent, and cruel. Adults are using innocent young children to make social situations beneficial to themselves and to achieve their political greedy ambition. This crime must be stopped now.