Big Brother - Stevie Wonder

Who is speaking:

· He’s no body. He’s a normal citizen. He’s living I a ghetto. He is critical about a surveillance society.

To whom:

· The society. A society- critical song. Mid-age people.

What is characteristic of the song:

· Formal English

· Sad because the surveillance makes the country go down.

· Your name is big brother, and I live in a ghetto.

· “My name is secluded,
we live in a house the size of a matchbox,
Roaches live with us wall to wall”

”My name is nobody”

Keywords:

· Big brother, watching

What is the writer’s intention?

· Theme/topic? Surveillance, poor citizens, society critic.

· Message? The surveillance ruins the country. “You'll cause your own country to fall”

Surveillance and self-promotion:

The title relates to the big brother state, that always watching the citizens. In the text Stevie Wonder describes a big brother that watching him and always is over him.