Book Two: Chapter 6

On the day that Julia gave Winston a note, before they ever met, there was someone behind him and he never knew who it was. Winston turns around and it was O'Brien. O'Brien talked to Winston about how great his Newspeak was and if he had a interest in it. Winston said he wasn't interested, but O'Brien asked him if he had the 10th edition Newspeak dictionary and Winston told him that they only have the 9th and that it hasn't been released yet to buy. O'Brien gives him his address so he can go by his house and pick up the new dictionary, but little did they know that where they were standing there was a camera looking straight at the paper and saw O'Brien write down his address and give it to Winston. Winston read it and remembered it and then he threw it away into the memory bin. Winston says that when he talks to O'Brien he gets a weird feeling like he's in a grave or standing on a grave.

Book Two: Chapter 5

Winston notices that Syme has vanished. He saw a list of the Chess Committee, and Syme was one of them, and as he was looking nothing was crossed out and Syme was ceased to exist; as in he never existed. The weather was really hot and the rooms kept their regular temperatures. The roads burnt one's feet because of how hot it is outside and the stench of the Tubes was a horror. They were preparing for Hate Week in full swing and the staff of the Ministries were working overtime to get everything ready for Hate Week. A lot of things had to be organized for Hate Week and that was : processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, and telescreen programs. They also had to do: stands to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, and photographs faked. Winston had to spend long periods of time everyday going through files of the Times and embellishing news items which are used for speeches. As Hate Week came closer, volunteers had to stitch banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaffs on the roofs, and slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. Winston noticed that there was a new poster posted everywhere in London, every space was taken up by the poster and there was a lot more posters than the posters of Big Brother. The poster had a Eurasian soldier on it , and the soldier had no expression on his face.The soldier had a gun in his hand and at whatever angle you were at it always looked like it was pointed at you. A lot of rocket bombs were being set off, a lot more than expected a day. There's been a lot of people that have been killed and they have had tons of funerals that lasted hours. There were adults killed and children. The bombs were aimed at the places with people that go there daily, as Winston said. The room above Charrington's place has been invested with a lot of bugs because of the heat, but there has been no more mice. No matter how dirty or clean the room is, it'll always be Julia and Winston's paradise when they make love. They met seven times in June. Winston has dropped drinking gin at all hours, he lost the need for it. He became fatter, the varicose ulcer has subsided and now it's just a brown stain on his skin above his ankle. His fits of coughing in the early morning stopped, he no longer made faces to the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice. Mr. Charrington was very seldom and never went outside. He thought Winston was just another extinct animal. Mr.Charrington had a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop. He would tell a lot of stories that he somewhat remembered or rhymes, but Winston says that talking to him was like listening to the tinkling of a wornout musical box. Winston hopes that Katharine dies so he can marry Julia, or they can commit suicide together, or they can disappear learn to speak Proletarian, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street. Julia and Winston would talk about rebelling against the Party. They would talk about how Eastasia was Oceania's enemy and not Eurasia. Julia didn't care about anything dealing with war, or history because she was a rebel. Winston was a rebel, but he kinds of follows the rules of the community.

Book Two: Chapter Four

In the beginning of chapter four, Winston is looking up at the room at Mr.Charrington's shop because that was where Winston and Julia were going to meet. While reading I read that when it was almost the time for them to meet, they saw each other in the streets and Julia told him that she couldn't come. Winston asked why and she simply said that it came earlier than she expected. Winston was furious because he thought that she was cheating on him, but obviously she wasn't because her period just came earlier than expected. Winston came up with the idea that their next "hiding" place should be in the room on top of Mr.Charrington's shop. In the beginning of the chapter, Winston talks about how Mr. Charrington knows what privacy is and that when people want privacy he'll respect it and let them do them. Winston is anxious and inside of his mind he keeps calling himself "folly". He heard Julia come up the steps and he was going in for a hug and a kiss, but she didn't accept it because she wanted to show him what she got. Julia got: real sugar, Inner Party coffee, real tea, real bread, and so much more. Winston wondered where she got the stuff and she said it was all Inner Party stuff, and there was nothing the swines didn't have. Julia then told Winston to turn around for three minutes and Winston looked outside the window and saw the woman singing while putting up clothes. After three minutes past, Julia told him to turn around and he saw that she was wearing cosmetics and when he hugged her, he smelt a scent. After all of that they got naked and did it on the bed. They took a nap afterwards, Winston woke up first but couldn't move because Julia's head was on his arm, then not too later Julia wakes up and starts to get up but sees a rat. When she tells Winston about the rat, he starts to freak out, and has like a flashback about a bad time with a rat, but Julia comforts him with her naked body and then everything starts to become okay. Julia then gets out of bed and puts on her overalls and starts making the coffee but they close the windows so the people won't smell it and so they won't get caught. Julia points out where the rat was, and she remembers the same rhyme that Winston does about St. Clement's Dane. Winston was curious on where she heard it and she says that her grandfather taught it to her and that he vaporized when she was eight.

Book Two: Chapter Three

In chapter three of book two, Winston and Julia meet up and always make love, or have sex with each other. They don't meet up in the same spot they met in for the first time they did it. They met at a church, or a building that used to be a church, but was destroyed by a bomb 30 years earlier. They see each other everyday, almost, and there are times where they would have conversations, or they wouldn't even look at each other because they don't want to get caught. When they were in the old church building once, they would have a full on conversation, and Winston asked how Pornosec was and when he heard that only women worked there, he was really surprised because he thought men worked there. Winston thought men only worked there because men have a high sex drive, or have low control over having sex. They also talked about each others sex life and what it was like for them. Julia had her first love affair when she was 16 and the guy was 60, who later committed suicide because he didn't want to get caught. Winston talked about how Katharine was and how she was always stiff when they touched, or how it felt like she was pushing him away when they were hugging. Julia made a point to where sex uses all your energy but you're happy at the end, and when the community or committee want you to use all your energy for marching up and down the streets and cheering and waving flags and how people get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year plans and the Two Minutes Hate and the rest of the things the people have to do. Winston tells Julia a story about Katharine and how he almost had sex with her in the woods, or a place like that, and Julia told him that she would've pushed her off the cliff where the different color flowers were. Winston said he would be sorry, but then he said that everyone was dead anyway and it wouldn't make a difference. Julia didn't like that he said that and told him to stop talking about death because he isn't dead yet. Then they choose where to meet the next time and they choose where they first met, which was the woods.

Book Two: chapter 2

Chapter two of book two was very interesting and I learned a lot of things about how it is in their community. Winston and that girl that gave him the note met at the place she told him to meet her at. When he got there they hid behind trees so the microphones wouldn't pick up their voices and so they wouldn't be seen together. When they were behind the tree, the girl was the only one talking but then Winston started talking and in a flash they were making out really hard. They stopped because they weren't going to do the dirty there, because they were scared they were going to get caught by the Thought Police or just by someone. When they stopped they went to a different location and that's when Winston finds out her name. The girl's name is Julia, and they are both the same exact person except Julia is younger and Winston is older. They both don't agree with the whole system and how their lives are in the community. When they talked, Winston whispers in Julia's ear "Now" and they go back to their spot and when they get there, Julia takes off all of her clothes and they lay on the ground and get onto it. The author didn't explain it much , but that's okay. When they were done, they were both sleepy afterwards so they took a nap and when Winston woke up, he covered Julia up with the overalls and watched her sleep on her hand, which was used as the pillow since they were in the woods in a way.

Book Two: Chapter 1

In the first chapter of book two, Winston sees the girl he's seen before with the dark hair in the canteen. While they were in the canteen she fell and fell on her wrist that she broke not too long ago. The girl that Winston is in love with, or likes gives him a note after she fell and he helped her up. Winston went back to work, and when he got back home he waited eight minutes to open the note that the girl gave him. He did his regular routine when he got home, and as soon eight minutes he took the note out of his pocket and opened. When he opened it, the note said "I love you" and at first he couldn't believe what he read, so he re-read it again. When he read it again, he got this feeling inside that he hasn't felt in a while. When he read it he thought that she wanted them to meet somewhere and after that day, he looked for her in the canteen and everywhere he was. A few days past and he didn't see her for awhile, and he started to think that she changed her mind. Then there was one day when he was in the lunch room and she was all by herself in the morning and he was working up the nerve to go sit with her, but that didn't happen because Wilsher was calling his name so Winston can go sit with him. The next time, Winston made sure he got there early so she could sit at the table with her. When he got close to the table , he saw another guy go over there and start talking to her, but that didn't stop him from sitting at the table right across from where she was. When the girl and the guy got done talking, the guy left and the girl turned around and Winston was hoping that she would see him but she got up and left. Winston felt like he was invisible I guess you can say. I forgot to mention what the girl and the guy were talking about and they were talking about them meeting somewhere like the Victory Square, but he couldn't stand close to her. Winston overheard of course because he was right across from them when they were discussing it. Winston got up and left and went where the girl told the other guy to meet her at, and when he got there he spotted her and got as close to her as he could. He said they were touching shoulder to shoulder and her cheek she could kind of feel the warmth from it. They were pretty close you can say as you read. When she noticed how close they were she told them that they can't be that close, which I'm talking about Winston. Once she saw Winston she asked him if he could Sunday afternoon off and of course, Winston said yes. After that, they kind of touched skin and Winston started describing how it felt. As you can see, after that he was happy and he had a reason to keep living.

Chapter 8

In chapter 8, there is a lot that happened and there is a lot of things said from Winston about how some things are in his community. There is one thing that Winston said that really caught my attention and this quote can be found on page 92 if you were curious. On page 92 it says this: "What I'm trying to say is this. You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution. In 1925, for instance, you were already grown up. Would you say, from what you can remember, that life in 1925 was better than it is now, or worse? If you could choose, would you prefer to live then or now?" This quote caught my attention because if you were already grown up in the 1920's which is before the Revolution, would you live then or would you live now after the revolution. Well, if it was up to me I would live now, because the Revolution is a sad time to be in and a lot of people were in trouble in many ways. Winston on the other hand, still thought about this question because he was actually born before the Revolution and by 1925 he was already grown up. If you were asked this question, what would your response be? Would it then or now?