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.