Book three chapter 6.... LAST CHAPTER OF BOOK THREE

This chapter was CRAZY! It was really crazy...towards the end! Winston was not being abused, as I said in the other blog for chapter 5. Winston was sitting at a table, playing chess, and drinking gin. Then THEN he saw Julia, the one that was also taken away when they caught them in the same room together. When he saw Julia he could see that she had physically changed. She was really skinny and her face was skinny too. But when they saw each other they just hugged and they didn't kiss. When they sat down they both said that the betrayed each other. After they said that, Julia said "You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself." She was saying that because she wanted Winston to feel the pain of something somehow. This is important because when you are in a situation, you just want to get out of it, so you just want them to do it to someone they know.

Another important text that REALLY surprised me was, "He loved Big Brother." This surprised me SO much because Winston NEVER liked Big Brother. He was always against them. I never thought that Winston would give in to what O'Brien said to him while they were abusing him. It really surprised me. Winston really switched up and changed from his own experience. Would you change the way you think because somebody got inside your head? I wouldn't I would just stick to what I believe in. IT'S CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Book three chapter 5

In this chapter, Winston finds out what Room 101 is. O'Brien tells him that it is a very bad room to go too. It's a room where you determine the way you'll die. There's a part of the text that caught my eyes as I was reading I had to go back and highlight it. The quote is "...pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death."(page 284) This quote caught my eye, because it's really true if you think about it. Think about it. Human beings never have enough pain. We take a lot of pain, physically and mentally. If we had enough pain in our life, would it change our lives? There's so much that you have to think about when you think about pain. Back to the text, pain is part of our lives everyday. In the text it says that human beings WILL stand out against the pain, even if it is to the point of DEATH! Why death? I wouldn't want to die, but then again if I was in a whole lot of pain, I would just want to leave the world, and not be in pain anymore. This quote makes me think a lot.

Book three chapter 4

This chapter was a lot better, not a lot of things bad happened. More good things happened in the chapter. In this chapter, Winston was gaining his weight back, and he was clean because he showered and he finally ate! On page 277, there are three quotes that really caught my attention, not because they were capitalized, but because they have meaning to them. The first one is "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY." This one caught my attention because in the previous chapter, O'Brien pointed out that slavery is freedom. I believe the way O'Brien put it is correct. It's correct because in the past people owned slaves, and when it was abolished, they had freedom to do whatever. There were no more segregation. Another quote that caught my attention was "TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE." This caught my attention because how does two and two make five? Doesn't two and two make four? I don't know where the leader's brain is when he said this. It's crazy and really weird that they thought that. Two and two make FOUR not FIVE?!?!? One last quote that caught my attention is "GOD IS POWER." This caught my attention because in my eyes, and in my opinion God IS power. God controls everything. He makes things move, like he made animals, humans, the sea, and etc. He made a lot of things for us to live off of. That isn't the last quote that I found interesting there's one more and it says "He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered." What do they mean by this? You can't change the past at all, because it already happened. I mean you can change your future because it hasn't came yet. But your past?! I don't think you can.

Book three chapter 3

This chapter was another intense chapter. There was a lot happening and Winston was still getting shocked if he answered the questions wrong. At the end of the chapter, there was one saying that O'Brien said, and it really caught my attention. The quote can be found on page 274, and he says "Everything is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." This quote that O'Brien said caught my attention because it's crazy and how they would shoot him, because he committed one crime, and he didn't even murder or rape Julia. Why would they shoot him? He just loved somebody so much that he made a meeting place for them to go, and made love to each other. Julia and Winston always made time for each other. This shouldn't be crime. But it is in Oceania. Also, before he said that he told Winston that it would be a long while before they shot him, but he would be shot. In my opinion, they shouldn't kill him for love. He didn't steal anything. It's wrong in my opinion. Besides all of that, I believe there was one time where they had death penalty if someone committed a really bad crime. I believe it's still around, it's just not used as often as it was in the past. Winston is like going through a whole thing for death penalty I believe.

Another quote that really caught my attention, was found on page 270. On page 270, O'Brien says "You are the last man, said O'Brien. You are the guardian of the human spirit. You shall see yourself as you are...." Winston told O'Brien that he was human and O'Brien responded with this. Winston is not the last man, because isn't O'Brien also a man? O'Brien believes in whatever the Party has to say. He says that there is no man and when Winston said he was human, he told Winston to take off his clothes and see what the last man looked like... It's freaky and weird. Anyways, the quote can be related to the world now because some people believe that God, or Jesus, will be the last man. God is the guardian of the human spirit, people may believe. If people do not believe that, then they may think that they'll be the last man to ever live on the Earth

O'Brien is playing with Winston's mind. He's telling him one thing , but of course Winston doesn't believe it because he doesn't like the Party. He disobeys the Party. But yeah, this chapter was CRAZY!

Book three: chapter 2

In this chapter , there was a lot going on and I kind of got confused while reading it, but as I kept reading I could somewhat tell what was happening. There are some things that were really scary and I felt bad for Winston because he was being tortured by O'Brien. There was one point in the book that I found very interesting and it's true, in my opinion. This point can be found on page 248 and it says "'Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" This quote stood out to me because when this was said in the beginning of the book, it got me thinking about it. We control if we think about our past, and if we think of the future. Also, we also think of the present and the present that we think about controls the past. We go through a lot of things, to make memories and to make us think about why we said or did what we did that day. The past, present, and future is what every human being thinks about, even if it's scary. Another point that stood out to me what also found on page 248 and it says, "'But how can you stop people remembering things...... It is involuntary. It is outside oneself. How can you control memory? You have not controlled mine!" This stood out to me because O'Brien was telling Winston that the Party controls everyone's memory and they control the thinking of other people. Winston doesn't believe that it's true because it isn't. NO ONE can control what you're thinking and what you believe. It just can't happen. The Party in the book are control freaks. They control EVERYTHING that happens inside the person's mind. It's just crazy, and it really sucks for Winston to live in a dystopia like that.           

Book three: chapter 1

While reading chapter one of book three, I've seen a lot of quotes that made me interested in them or that made me want to highlight them because they were just important to me. One of them that I found interesting and somewhat true was found on page 231 and it says "'Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?'" This was very interesting to me because this somewhat relates to what poetry we read now in 2017 in our English classes. A lot of poetry we learn about lack rhymes if they are a specific type of poem and if the author of the poem didn't want to make it rhyme by any means. I can relate this to my personal life because I remember once I had to write a poem, and it had to be Haiku and it didn't rhyme because they aren't supposed too. I also remember that I had to write a Ode about anything, and that one didn't have to rhyme. So with that quote saying that the WHOLE history of English poetry was determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhyme whenever it's presented in anyway. 

Another quote I found very interesting was when one of the Parsons was thrown into jail because of "Thoughtcrime". He explains Thoughtcrime to Winston as this, "It's insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit -- never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep..." This quote caught my attention because Parsons explains how he got Thoughtcrime and that it was bad for him to think in his sleep, and that was making him sleep talk. After he mentions , he tells Winston what he said in his sleep, and he said "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!" In my opinion, that doesn't sound bad since he was always down with Big Brother since it started. His family was always involved with Big Brother and he always followed the rules of the committee. Parsons says that his daughter turned him in , and that he was proud that he did, but when he was talking to Winston it kind of seemed like he wasn't proud of her all at one time.