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.