Answered: ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13.’

The question is : ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13.’

The options given are:

T.S. Eliot
George Orwell

The correct answer to this is:

George Orwell

• “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”is the opening line to one of the best dystopian fiction books of all time- George Orwell’s 1984. The purpose of having such a paradox to open the story is to confuse the reader into wondering whether or not this story is true. Of course, it can be both cold and bright, just …..