Chapter 7

While I was reading this chapter, there's some points that really stood out to me and they had a message as I kept reading on. The points that mostly stood out to me is when Winston would write in his diary. There's one diary entry that really stood out to me which was "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." This really stood out to me because this is true in the real world and not just in book. When people do nasty things, or go to jail for something not so bad they can't be conscious again. In the first line where it says "Until they become conscious they will never rebel.." this is correct because when people are conscious of what they can and cannot do they will not do inappropriate things or things that will get them in trouble. When they rebel they don't know what's right and wrong anymore since they rebelled against a rule or rules. Another diary entry Winston put in his diary was "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." If you say that two plus two equals four, then that is freedom according to Winston. Before he wrote this in his diary, on page 80 it says "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." If you are forced to believe something it's not freedom but if you believe that two and two make four it's freedom because it's what you believe.

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Chapter 6

Chapter 6 was maybe one of the most shocking to me. In this chapter, I discovered that Winston was married and her name was Katharine. I always thought he was just a guy that never found the right girl, but he did before they had to be separated. They were separated because Winston was only with her for sex, which is kind of messed up in my opinion. According to the Party, for people to be married it wasn't just about sex, it was about having children together and for them to not have sexual intercourse. The Party didn't like the idea of married couples to just have sex, they had to have a purpose of being together basically. Winston and his wife have been together for only 15 months and he thought that they were together for 10 or more years. Winston also explained how it was when they were in sexual intercourse and how she would feel like a wooden image. She was always stiff when he touched her.

Chapter 5

As I was reading chapter 5, I found something that caught my eye and I thought about it and it was right. In chapter 5, Syme talks about the dictionary and what kind of words are in it, and how small it will get when life goes on. In the book, they speak "Newspeak" and for them they take something and shorten it as much as it can go, so it makes it easy for five year olds to understand. The piece of text that talks about words and how they are can be found on page 51. As Syme is talking about it he's taking a bite of his bread and swallowed it in mouthfuls. Here is the text that I found so interesting and/or important: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." I found this important and interesting because every word in the dictionary has a synonym and a antonym, or many. It's important to have those though because it gives you different words to use when you are speaking, or writing a paper. Now some words we speak and are found in the dictionary of course and some of them are adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, and etc. Words are labeled like that so we know how to use the words whenever we are writing or speaking.

Character Analysis : Chapter 4

In this character analysis I will tell you the physical characteristics and personality traits of Winston and Parson. Here is what I've found about Winston and Tom Parson:

First we are going to look at Winston. Winston is a guy that has a smallish and frail figure. In the book , you can find this in book one page 2 and it says "He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagerness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party." Another physical characteristic of Winston is that he has very fair hair. This characteristic is also found on page 2 of book one and it says "His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended." Another characteristic is that he had a varicose ulcer on his right ankle. This characteristic can be found on page one of book one it says "...and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle..."

For Winston's personality, it's found throughout book one chapter one through three. One of the personality traits of Winston is that he was rebellious. He was rebellious by keeping a diary recording what he was thinking. He didn't support Big Brother(bb) and the Party. In his diary, in the first chapter of book one he writes "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER". He thinks about the government a lot and he thinks that they don't tell the truth while they (the government) talk. Winston's job is Ministry of Truth to where he hides the truth and makes sure no one will try to tell the truth. Also in chapter 3, he thought it was weird that no one has heard of Big Brother and the Party until the 1960's.

Lastly, we will talk about Tom Parson and his physical characteristics and his own personality tests. Tom, as said in the book, is a fat and sweaty guy. This physical characteristic can be found on page 22 in chapter 2 of book one and it says "He was a fattish but active man.." Another physical characteristic of Tom Parson is that he isn't that smart. Also found on page 22 in chapter 2 of book one it says "...of paralyzing stupidity...." Tom and his wife are known as dull people, and they are both dull Party members. Tom Parson was also obnoxious.
For Tom's personality he is known as a "good citizen". He's a good citizen because he is fully devoted to Big Brother and the Party. On page 21 of chapter 2 it says "....full-sized poster of Big Brother." What does this tell you about the Parsons? They love the idea of having a Big Brother. It is also known that Tom has a "perfect" family because his children are with the Spies. Also on page 21 it says "On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies..."

Ways that Winston and Tom Parson are two different people is because Winston doesn't like the Party and Big Brother, but Tom is a devoted person to Big Brother and the Party. Another difference from the two is that Winston doesn't have a "perfect" family, but Tom does. Winston doesn't follow the rules, and that can be found when he keeps a diary of his thoughts and he hides it because he isn't to supposed to have one. Tom Parson follows the rules because he agrees with everything the Party has to say and also he has a "scarlet banner of the Youth League and the Spies..."

Ways that they are similar is that they both have a job at the Ministry of Truth. They both know each other from where they work, and they do the same thing as one another at the job.

Chapter 3

In chapter 3, there was one quote from page 35, where Winston describes, or tells us how "double think" is for them. In the previous chapter, you read that he kept a diary and hid it when he was done. Why did he do that? He did that so he wouldn't be caught if they went into his apartment, or home. "....To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself--that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed." Winston explains how the process goes when they are in double think. That is a long process, and way they do things in the double thinking. After he explained the process, or how it is, he says "Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink." That sounds really complicated but it's true if you really think about it.

Chapter 2

"To the future or the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone:
 From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of double-think--greetings!" This quote was important to me when I read it because it has a meaning to it for Winston. Winston was afraid to write because they aren't allowed to because of the Thought Police. After this quote, Winston was already dead after he wrote his thoughts that came from his brain to the pen. This quote is important because in my opinion, Winston was just letting his mind write what he felt, or what he thought. After he wrote the quote he put "Thoughtcrime does not entail death; thoughtcrime IS death." What he said after he gave his own thought is really scary because he is not allowed to speak his mind and say what he wants to say. The Thoughtcrime is death because if they catch you writing down your thoughts or even saying them you will get killed.

Chapter 1

"theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother-" found on page 19. For this quote I found important while reading was that the author's style of words in this piece of text was he was careless about they would do if he did a crime. Also, he was going into hysteria, which is exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement. After he did it, he was ashamed of what he wrote because before he wrote that he wrote "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" and he wasn't thinking about anything while he was writing. The tone of this text is absentminded about what they could and would do to him. His choice of words can be better, and some of them are misspelled but you can tell his mood and his tone in his choice of words. I think the author used this style in his work because he wants to show us how he is in the Ministry of Love, or Miniluv.