Part I: Summary
THREE bullet points of summary.
Part II:
Quote at least THREE lines from the text; include page number.
Part III: Evaluate (2-3 paragraphs)
Discuss the quoted material or otherwise evaluate the novel. Why did you choose the quote
above and how does it function in the novel?
Day 1.
Chapter 1
1.
● The two minutes of hate occurs
● He realizes that he doesn't know what to write about
● He starts journaling in the book
Pages 1-20
2. It was even possible, at moments, to switch one’s hatred this way or that by voluntary act.
Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort which one wrenches one’s head from the pillow in a
nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark
haired girl behind him.
3. The two minutes hate confuses me. I don't get what it means, are they trying to get them to
hate him. Do they think that he is evil. Do they watch it everyday? Does the government want to
make them like hate everyone but the big brother. I know that he used to be part of the party but
i don't get what happened. Is this referencing Stalin and the Russians? But I don't get want Big
Brother means? Does it mean that they are supposed to protect the people and who else is
involved in the Party.
Day 2.
Chapter 2-3
Pages 20-37
1.
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Winston went over to his neighbors house to fix something
Winston realized that he hates Big Brother
Winston recalls a dream that he had
2. There was a link of understanding between them more important than affection of
partisanship. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength. Thoughtcrime does not
entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. It was exactly the kind of detail that might betray you.
3.. You are constantly being watched and analyzed by the government. Even a little detail that
you miss like an ink stain can get you put into prison and even killed. I think that its sad that
these people don't even get the right and freedom to think what they want, and even feel what
they want. These people’s emotions are kept so strict that they don't even have the freedom to
express themselves through words. In their world things are good, or not good. For them words
like horrible and repugnant are not even known. These restrictions on their vocabulary make
their ideas simple and not very deep. This world that they live in just wants them to be happy;
whether they are or not.
Day 3.
Chapter 4
Pages 37-48
1.
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Winston was assigned a big project
Winston finished creating the other changes
Winston decided to create a new person
2.There were occasions when big brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating
some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example
worthy to be followed. It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but in a
few lines of print and a couple faked photographs would soon bring him into existence.
3.In this book every file, photograph, newspaper, and book is updated to mathch what has
happened. This makes Big Brother look because the file says that he predicted that it would
happen. For example winston changed a newspaper to say that the chocolate ration would be
lowered, and it was changed to say that it would be lowered ten grams when it was supposed to
only drop five. This made Big Brother look better because it was lowered less than it was
supposed to. The project that Winston is assigned is supposed to cover up the disappearance
of a whole organization of people. The speech that Big Brother mentions this organization so
Winston decides to create this person to take the organizations. I wrote all of this because I
think its a lie to all the people of the world when they do this. It isn't fair first off to the peoples’
loves ones who are now dead and they will never know what happened to them. I also think
that it isn't fair to the people who are actually changing these documents because they will
actually know what happened to these people.
Day 4.
Chapter 5
Pages 48-63
1.
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Winston talks about newspeak with Syme
hey explain how adjectives will soon be gone
they talk about the girls who caught the spy
2.Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its
meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Every year
fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now there
is no excuse to commit a thought crime. Pg.52
3. I picked this quote because i think that it is an important detail in these peoples lives. Its
important to me to understand this concept because it gives you an understanding in how these
people live and think. These people are losing the freedom to express themselves with words.
Their language is being taken away from them; and they have almost no way to know it. I think
that this is one of the most horrible way to control people, to take away their ability to express
themselves and talk. The passion of they way they talk is something that they have the right to
have, to be able to go deeper into a meaning is something that is being taken away from them.
Day 5.
Chapters 6-7
Pages 63-81
1.
● Winston takes a walk
● He almost gets exploded
● He remembered a photograph that would have helped him now
2.Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they
cannot become conscious. For that matter, even religion was permitted if the proles showed any
sign if wanting it of needing it. They were beneath suspicion . As the party put it:”Proles and
animals are free.”
3.I think that is horrible that someones life can be so consumed by just surviving that any sense
of fight and justice is taken away from them. Its horrible that peoples lives can be so terrible that
they can't even have to time to question the government. These people are free because they
don't have the energy after all the work that they do to question their lives. They are so
consumed by work that they don't even have time for religion. These people only have one thing
and that is there work and nothing else. This is not living; but surviving.
Day 6.
1.
Chapter 8
Pages 81-104
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Winston goes back to the junk shop
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Winstons buys a glass paperweight
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WInston notices that the girl is following him
2.What I really want to know is this, Do you feel that you have more freedom now than you had
in those days? Are you treated more like a human being? In the old days , the rich people, the
people at the top. What im asking where these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply
because they were rich and you were poor?
3.I think that winston needs to know what is was like when he was a child because we wants to
know how the times have changes. Some part of him know that life used to be much better. I
would like to know how times have actually changes since my parents were little of even since i
was little. I would like to know how in real life times have changes, not just what the history
books say, but how people felt and what they could do. I wish that I could go back and find out
how my parents grew up and how they have seen their world change
Book 2
Day 7.
Chapters 1-2
Page 105-126
1.
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Julia gives Winston a note
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Winston finds out that Julia loves him
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The two plan to meet in the country
2.I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be
corrupt to the bones. That was above all what he wanted to hear. Not merely the love of one
person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would
tear the party to pieces.
3.I think that Winston is right about how love could take the party down. I think that he thinks
that love could make the party even corrupter then it already is. He says that he doesn't want
anyone to have any virtues and this is the part that confuses me. I don't get how he wouldn't
want anyone to have any trust, honesty, or any loyalty. The brotherhood is loyal to each other,
so shouldn't he want there to be some kind of virtues? I think that he is wrong about the virtues
part.
Day 8.
Chapters 5-6
Pages 147-159
1.
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Winston rents mr. Charrington’s room for him and Julia
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He talk to O’Brien
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O’Brien invites him over
2. Sometimes he talk to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries committed
there. Such things did not appear to horrify her. She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her
feet at the thought of lies becoming truths. He told her of the story of Jones, Aaronson, and
Rutherford.
3.I don't get Julia, of her character. I mean i don't get how you couldn't be terrified at the the
thought of everything that you were told was a glorified lie. I don't get how she can shrug it off
as something that doesn't matter or doesn't need to be stopped. He even told her about the
people that just disappear and she isn't worried, that would terrify me. To know that a whole
persons existence can be wiped clean.
Day 9.
Chapters 7-8
Pages 160-179
1.
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Winston and Julia go to O’Briens
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They tell them that they will not separate
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They learn that The Brotherhood exists
2.You are prepared to give your lives? You are prepared to commit murder? To commit acts of
sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people? To betray your country to
foreign powers? You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see each other
again...no.
3. So when they were asking these questions to the two of them why did they ask if they were
willing to kill hundreds of people? Are they planning to kill all they party members. I don't
understand this part; why would they have to separate? I get the other questions but i don't get
these two, i thought that the brotherhood was supposed to help people
Day 10.
Chapters 9-10
Pages 179-224
1.
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Winston reads Goldstein's book
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They explain everything that he already knew
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The thought police come and get them
2.Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social system which they
support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the
same worship of a semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous
warfare.
Book 3
Day 11.
Chapters 1-2
Pages 225-260
1.
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Winston is in jail
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Winston sees O’Brien
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Winston finds out why they bring people into the ministry of love
2.When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone
else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality
exists in the human mind, and no where else. Not in the individual mind, which can make
mistakes, and in any case soon perishes; only in the mind of the party, which is collective and
immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth is the truth.
3. I think that this is just terrible to do you someone. The tell them that they are crazy when in
truth they are right. To tell someone that what you see isn't what everyone else sees because
you are crazy you see something else. That everything you see is just your personal delusion.
They told Winston that everything he knew to be truth was a lie, that they only truth that he
should know was what the Party told him. I think that this could possibly be the worst thing that
they could do to him.
Day 12.
Chapters 3-4
Pages 260-282
1.
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Winston finds out that the book was not written by goldstine
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Winston finds out what they party has planned out for the future
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Winton Gets sent to room 101
2.The old civilizations claimed to be founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred.
In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
Everything else we shall destroy-everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of
thought which have survived from before the revolution.267
3.This quote is important the the book because it explains why they want to break down
emothis. It tells you why they have created a world without love or peace. The only emotions
that they want to keep are the bad ones, they ones that fuel the hatred of anything but the Party.
I think that they are trying to make everyone only think about the bad so that they want to keep
on fighting the war and hating everything but the party.
Day 13.
Chapters 5-6
Pages 282-297
1.
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Winston meets up with julia and they both agree that they do not love each other
anymore
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Winston realizes that the only freedom that he will get is dying but still hating the
party
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Winston realizes that he loves big brother
2.They can't get inside of you, but they could get inside of you. What happens here is forever.
O’Brien had said. That was a true word. There were things, your own acts, from which you could
not recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out, cauterized out. 2+2=5
3.This quote is important to this book because it shows how Winston pretty much gave up on all
his beliefs. Winston just accept that the party is right; that things will never change; he accepts
Big Brother, and even loves him. Winston said that he will never believe in the Party or that
2+2=5 but in the end he accepts this as the truth. He accepts that two plus two can equal
whatever the party wants it too. I think that at the ending of the book he is just tired and worn
down. I am confused on how he can say that the only freedom is dying hating them; then go and
give up his right to hate them. I don't get how he could give up on everything that he had worked
so hard to keep inside of him.