Blog Post Group E

We talked about the scariness of the mind control when used like it was in the story, but I feel like the author is trying to make us question the possibility of something like this actually happening. The notion that things could change to where they were at the beginning of the story seems completely impossible. But at the same time, the story makes it seem like it was a gradual process or a "tightening of the screw" as was mentioned in a past poem, making it all the more plausible. I suppose what truly makes this story so scary is that it is the outer limit of the dystopian worlds that we can imagine our own society reaching. It's based so much in things we encounter regularly and accept, but simply taken one step further.