Chapter Five

Winston is finally introduced to Room 101. He is also introduced to his worst fear, rats. This is nothing close to what I expected to be in Room 101. It makes sense now why no one wants to enter Room 101 because they have to be faced with their biggest fear. The thing that will make them say or do anything. I was getting sick to stomach while reading this chapter because of how they were describing what was going to happen to Winston. I thought they would just let the rats loose in the room and let the, attack Winston. However, they were going to let the rats eat Winston's face! It's amazing what people will do when they are being faced with their worst fear. Winston betrayed Julia. I never thought I would see the day when Winston betrayed her. I think that Winston actually did love Julia because he would have never betrayed her if it weren't for the rats. Even the skull faced guy said he would rather watch his children die than go to Room 101 and I believe he loves his children. I now think they kept Winston for so long not to learn to love Big Brother, but instead to do the one thing he said he would never do. They just wanted him to betray the one person he loved, the one person he had. They wanted him to betray Julia so they would never be united again and try to rebel against the Party. Now that they betrayed each other, they will not focus on one another but instead on Big Brother.

Chapter Four

I was slightly confused at the beginning of the chapter because it completed switch plots. All of a sudden Winston is not being tortured anymore. Instead he is actually getting healthy, being fed three times a day, trying to get in shape, and not complaining about being in the Ministry of Love. I think Winston tries to get fit is because he realized how much power the Party had over him while he was weak. He knows that he needs to be strong in order to have any amount of power over himself. I think it is strange that he all of a sudden seems to believe the Party. He believes the party, but deep down he knows what is really the truth. He learned how to control himself though. If he believes what the Party says, why have they not let him go? I believe Winston will have to stay for a while longer because of how strong his hate was in the beginning. O'Brien knows that it will take a long time for Winston to fully be cured. Especially because he wakes up from a dream screaming about Julia. O'Brien comes in and tells him its time to go into Room 101. I think Room 101 will have something significant inside of it. Maybe Julia will be waiting in there, or maybe even his Mom. The reason for this is because they want Winston to betray Julia in front of her to make her hurt. It could be his mom also because he thinks she is no longer alive and if he sees her believing and loving the Party, it will help him believe. It is probably something much worse though, because no one wants to enter Room 101.

Chapter Three

I don't know what I would do if I were put in Winton's position. As O'Brien keeps questioning him, Winston keeps responding with what we know to be true and he knows to be true. However, the Party says otherwise so therefore it is no longer true. I would most likely be the same way as Winston. I do not understand how they can make all those people believe lies. They are torturing Winston to make him believe it, but I think that will just make him lie when deep down he still knows the truth. They also make Winston look at himself in the mirror. They have tortured him so much that he doesn't even recognize himself. He is super skinny, balding, weakened, and aged even . He is disgusted in himself that he can't even look at himself in the mirror. O'Brien points out that he is the only one left of his kind, and there is no way for him to try to control the future. I think by Winston seeing how he actually looks now, he realizes that O'Brien is right.

Chapter 2

Chapter two was very descriptive of what happened to Winston. He was tortured in many ways. I believe they use different ways to torture because it will cause different pain and help make them sane. Winston is tortured by O'Brien, yet he still likes him. Winston still thinks of O'Brien as a friend, a person to talk to. I don't understand why O'Brien waited 7 years to turn Winston in. I believe that since O'Brien is sort of Winston's friend, he was waiting because he thought maybe Winston would get better. Maybe Winston would realize what he was doing was wrong and try to cure himself. After Winston went to O'Brien for the brotherhood, he realize Winston would not cure himself and he would have to cure Winston instead. O'Brien uses electric shock to make Winston realize that he can literally wipe out all of Winston's brains. He is going to make it so Winston will love Big Brother and follow the party. Winston will be cured and sane again. Winston asks O'Brien where Julia is and O'Brien says Julia betrayed Winston. I believe that Julia did betray him, but only because she was a spy for the party. I think they only took her in and hurt her in front of Winston to get a reaction out of Winston and to make him confess. I think she was let go right away and nothing actually happened to her.

Part Three, Chapter 1

In this chapter, Winston meets to people he knows. First is Ampleforth. I'm not sure what the big deal was with using the word God, but I think it is because they want people to think Big Brother is like the almighty God. Next he meets Parsons. His daughter turned him in, yet he is proud of her. I believe Parsons would be the perfect Party member. He believes everything and he totally loves them. The fact that he is proud of what he daughter did shows it all. One guy that is in the cell with Winston really sticks out to me however. The guy with the skull-like face. He says how he has confessed to everything and that he has been starved for weeks. This startles me a little, because how does he know how long he has been there? Winston explains that the lights are always one so one never knows what time of day it is. It basically makes them go insane. The other thing that caught my eye was how he said all the things he would do not to go to room 101. He says how he would watch them cut his kids throats. What could possibly be so bad, that it would make someone rather watch their kids throats be cut? I don't think that room is where they die, because he clearly knows what happens in Room 101. I think the only way he could know is because he has either been there before or someone has told him about it which means the person came out alive. I believe that everyone who commits a crime has to be taken to this room, so eventually Winston will have to go there.

Chapter 10

Mind=Blown. Chapter ten is way interesting. As Winston and Julia wake up, they realize how the room is cold and the oven has no oil in it. Julia says that she had made sure it was full however. As they began to stand over the window and watch the lady, they say how they are the dead. All of a sudden, a voice says "you are the dead". At first I thought it was Mr. Charrington speaking to them from the door. I thought he was just going to tell them they should go, but it was a voice from not in the room. It was a voice from a telescreen that was behind the picture. Winston explains how Mr. Charrington was a member of the thought police, but I disagree. I believe that it was O'Brien. I think that because Winston had told O'Brien where they had been hiding out, that O'Brien had turned them in. He did say that switching hiding spots often is the safest, yet they kept using the same place. O'Brien also said how they can change people drastically. Winston also talked to him about the little chant about the churches, which is why the telescreen referenced part of it. I think that Mr. Charrington did not change, but instead O'Brien changed himself to look like Mr. Charrington. The whole time I thought O'Brien was a spy, not an actual member of the Brotherhood. He is a member of the inner party, so I think he told the others about Winston and Julia and about their hide-out. He then went to them disguised as a different version of Mr. Charrington. Thinking ahead, I want to say that Winston and Julia will meet O'Brien at the Ministry of Love and find out who he really is.

Chapters 2-3

In this chapter, Winston and Julia meet up in the private place. Julia does even more stuff to make her seem like a spy, but Winston doesn't see her like that anymore. When Winston asks what her name is, she tells him and then also adds how she already knows his. That is first off creepy and second off a big sign that he doesn't think anything about. Why does she know his name? Possibly because she is following him and taking tabs on him. She also knows how there is no microphone hidden anywhere, so she's obviously been there before. She also says how she has a "connection" so she can get stuff from the black market. Why does she have connections, but Winston doesn't? Winston is older so he should be able to have some sort of connections by now, but he didn't even know about them. She tells Winston how she has done this many times before and always with party members. Why does he trust her? If she has done it before with party members, then she clearly is trying to get other people in trouble. Instead, he just thinks she is a rebellion which he likes. They make love, but I do not believe they are in love. Winston says what they are doing is just an act of rebellion. Julia tells him how they can go to any hide-out twice and will be safe, but a months time is needed in between. When Winston brings up his wife, Julia says she already knows. Isn't that a huge red flag? How would Julia know anything about Winston and his wife? Maybe because she is keeping tabs on him and has been following his life to try and catch him. They meet up a few times, but only for short moments.

Part two, Chapter 1

Part two is where the book finally gets the most interesting because Winston finally talks to the dark haired girl. It also makes me question Julia however. Why does she trip right in front of the telescreen and give him the note? Maybe because she is secretly a spy and wants the party to know what she's doing. How can she say she loves him when they've never talked? This is another reason why I think she is a little on the suspicious side. How can one love someone they have never even talked to? At lunch they have a little conversation to meet up somewhere. When they do meet up, she tells him this route to get to a place so they can privately meet up. Winston even says she said it with a sort of military precision. Why doesn't that alarm him at all? Why doesn't he think anything of it when she knows this whole route to go into the woods in a private area where they can't get caught? I believe Julia is still some sort of spy because everything she has done has made her seem like a spy. She young, yet she knows how to get to private places and tells a man she loves him when they have never talked. There is something fishy about her.

Chapter 8

I think that Chapter 8 is where it really gets interesting for me. This is the spot in the book that I never wanted to put the book down, I just wanted to keep on reading. In chapter 8, Winston goes to where the proles live. He is being really risky by doing this. He even goes into a pub to talk to an old man about time before the Revolution. He knows that this is a huge risk, but he decides it is worth it. However, the man didn't tell him anything he wanted to know. He wants to figure out whether time before the Revolution was actually better or not. After leaving the pub, Winston goes to the antique shop where he got his diary. In there he buys coral in a glass. He thinks it is so beautiful. He also talks to the old man who works there which makes him want to go back in a month because he learns about the churches that were once up before the Revolution.The old man tells him about the little jingle that goes along with them. He can't go back until another month because it is dangerous. He could get turned in by the proles. On his way back home, he comes across the dark haired lady who he thinks is spying on him which makes him convinced she is a spy. I want to know what happens next, if he gets turned in or if no one tells on him. I also want to find out if anything happens since he saw the dark haired lady or even what she was doing there.

Chapters 6-7

In chapters 6-7, we learn a lot more about the book. I believe this is the spot wear the book starts to pick up and is more interesting to read. In chapter 6, Winston talks about his wife and how they split. He also talks about the prostitute he slept with. He makes me wonder what happened to his wife, like where is she now or if she is even still alive. In chapter 7, Winston talks about time before the Revolution. He believes that time was better back then, not worse like the party tries to make it seem today. He tells us about the three men that confessed even though he pretty much found out that they were never guilty of anything. This shows me how strong the party and Big Brother actually are. Winston also mentions that if their is faith, it lies within the proles. He believes that they are the only hope to rebellion, but until they rebel will there be hope and until there is hope will they rebel.

Chapter 5

In chapter 5, we are introduced to Winston's comrade, Syme. Winston explains how Syme works in the making of the new Newspeak dictionary. Syme is a type of person who is very interested by Newspeak and a big fan of the whole Big Brother idea. Syme is a very intelligent person, so intelligent that Winston thinks he will get vaporized because of it. We also get introduced to Mr. Parsons, who Winston tells to be fat and not very bright. Winston believes he will never be vaporized because Mr. Parson is the exact type of person the party is looking for. He fits in well. I feel like the book is getting more interesting and a little easier to read. Its starting to get me wondering what will happen to all the people that are now being introduced and see if Winston's hypothesis is correct.

Chapters 3-4

In chapter 3, Winston talks about his history or what he thinks is history. He mentions the past when his mom, dad, and sister were around. I never really got what happened to them though and why he is the only one still alive. He also talks about how they are always at war with one and at peace with the other. So he says how they are never really ever at peace. He always refers to something as the past but then says how it may not even be the past. He "doublethinks" a lot of the time. No one really knows what history is or even what "truth" is. In chapter 4, Winston explains all about his job. He is the person who has to re-edit newspapers, books, magazines and the entertainment stuff to say the "truth". If something has false information, he will change it to what is now true and then other people take the old stuff and get rid of all evidence. I think it is weird how people in that department can still fall for the things that are false and believe what BB tells them. That surprises me.

Chapters 1-2

I think that the first two chapters of 1984 are kind of hard to understand and pick up on. For me, it took a while to get into the book. It is sort of confusing trying to keep track of Winston as to where he is and what is going on. So far, I have learned that this book is a about a government who tries to control the whole Oceania. They limit the food and they have their own language called "newspeak".They also hold 2 minute hates. Also Winston is writing in a diary and he is afraid that he is a dead man because the "Thought Police" are going to eventually catch him. I think that the book so far is difficult to pick up, but by reading on it will get easier and more interesting. I want to find out if Winston actually will get caught by the Thought Police or if he is just working himself up about it.