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.