1984 Dialectical Journal

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Before I start off 1984 was one of the books I found to be most interesting. This book made me see things a little differently. What if that’s how our society was? Would you be happy living the same life Winston did? Or would you be sad? This book was well defined from start to finish. But, let’s stop talking about my opinions and get into it shall we? Part 2, Chapter 1 started off with Winston going to the lavatory and seeing the girl with dark hair, while walking down a corridor. She fell in front of Winston. He picked her up, and she slid him a note that said "I love you". So many things instantly came to his mind once he read the note. He couldn’t focus on his work or anything else. Winston saw her in the canteen but was afraid to associate …show more content…

Charrington so that he could rent the upstairs room for his affair with Julia. When Julia arrived she started getting ready and afterwards they made love. Later on, Winston begins the nursery rhyme that he learned from Mr. Charrington and Julia mysteriously finishes most of the verse that her grandfather taught her. When winston saw the glass paperweight he said it symbolizes for himself, Julia, and their life together. Winston goes back to work, and see’s the preparation for hate week. After Julia and Winston meet up again, they imply that they cannot last a long time. They talked about war and their future together. At work O’Brien, goes to Winston and compliments him on his articles. O'Brien speaks to Winston about Syme and takes this conversation as a sign that O'Brien is on his side. O'Brien offered to lend Winston a copy of the Newspeak dictionary and gave Winston his address. Winston believed that this was the moment he has been waiting for, and realized that by taking this step, he is destined for an early …show more content…

He told us about the past that involved his mother and sister. Then they started talking about their relationship and what they would do if they ever got caught. Winston and Julia go to O'Brien's house, and confess to O'Brien that the Party was their enemies. O'Brien explains the Brotherhood secret, both refused to never see each other again. O'Brien made arrangements for Winston to receive a copy of "the book," Goldstein's heretical work. O'Brien said. "We shall meet again — " and Winston finishes the sentence, "In the place where there is no darkness?" Before Winston left, he asked O'Brien if he knew the last lines to the nursery rhyme that Mr. Charrington began for him, and O'Brien finished it. Winston was tired after a long day at work . After getting the book from a person in the Brotherhood at the Hate Week rally earlier, Winston took it to the shop and began to read to himself then to Julia. It involved the history and ideology of the Party. It didn’t give the information he wanted to know because he knew the how of the Party but what he really wanted to know was why. Both the party and brotherhood are fighting for something. The Brotherhood is a secret organization hoping to take down the Party. The Party is a political structure and ideology controlling all of Oceania. Oceania has always been at war, and they didn’t care who they were fighting. At the beginning

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