Nineteen Eighty-four and Treasure Chest

We came up with some good things for the treasure chest this morning (our most(prenominal) clever Stasiland ideas), but I keep thinking of more These argon the kind of things that I would put in my treasure chest. * Annas interest group in understanding WHY people might choose to utilization for the Stasi (and by default what she learns by interviewing Stasi men). She needs to gain insight and contrive sense of it and thus we go on this journey with her. The sense that everyone has a story and was impacting by this regime * The need for many of the characters to come to monetary value with the past (Vergangenheitsbewaltigung) and how some are still stuck with the Mauer im Kopf. Link to this the Germans not be sure of what to do with the past as well. Think about the Hitler ambuscade example.* The fact that the Stasi controlled through fear, but could not completely control the globe by dictating what was popular (the Lipsi, the Black Channel) * Parallels to George Orwells Ni neteen Eighty-Four and the margin Orwellian to describe the Stasis level of surveillance. The significance of Julia who keeps coming into Annas apartment and removing things. Like the Communists when they took over Germany, but also symptomatic of her inability to settle. Much like Miriam who needs to live in a station which is open. * An exploration of how humanity can treat each other in inhumane ways. Questioning how this was possible after the atrocities of the Nazis. * A need to bond passages to other stories in the text * I dont essential to be German any more * Annas clear disfavor of Ostalgie * Her use of various German stereotypes, possibly even her liking of theSticklebrick constitution of the language.