My relationship with media is characterized by everything I choose in my life. From shoes, to iphones, it all comes back to how they were portrayed in media. My decisions on everything I buy is based on how popular they are among my friends and classmates. It’s quite shallow, however media persuades us to make decisions based on the majority. Media even influences my own home life and school life, I choose to speak English predominantly and push aside my Arabic because America portrays knowing English as a good thing. Also cultural differences affect the ways I interact with friends, because of how my people’s background has been shown in the media.
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I agree with Orwell on the belief that language is a natural growth and that we shape it for our own purposes. For instance, since I am at an advantage where I have been put into harder classes that challenge me to create arguments that use intelligent sounding words, and which do in fact have intelligent meanings, I use them to my benefit to prove my self right in an argument with my friends in less challenging classes. The meanings they have behind them are complex and are difficult for my other friends to retort successfully. Playing the instrument of language, I am able to bend the meanings of them for my own selfish purposes. As time goes by, my language grows and allows me to have more sophisticated responses to situations that require me to prove myself or to prove others wrong.