Part 1
Chapter 1
 Winston Smith – small, frail, 39 home for lunch
 "INGSOC" (the merging of the words "English" and
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"Socialism") is another poster seen ubiquitously.
Telescreens are everywhere, both work as a way to spy and
promote propaganda.
Oceania is the name of his country
Winston is employed as an editor (read: creator of
propagandistic lies) in the Records Department at the
Ministry of Truth
the Ministry of Truth, which deals with historical records;
the Ministry of Peace, which wages war; the Ministry of
Love, which is basically the White House; and the Ministry
of Plenty, which plans economic shortages.
 The three slogans of the Party grace the façade of these
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buildings: War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; and
Ignorance is Strength.
Winston starts writing in his diary – this is punishable
by death or 25 years in a work camp
He is thinking about his hatred/sexual desire for the
“dark-haired girl” and his interest in O’Brien.
The Party’s chief enemy is Emmanuel Goldstein,
whose "lean, Jewish face"
He knew he would be punished even before he wrote
“Down with Big Brother,” he committed a thought
crime
Chapter 2
 Winston believes that the party survives by
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empowering stupid people (i.e. Parsons).
You can only love the party, no love among families,
lovers, etc. Children are trained to report.
The Party owns everything.
He is writing in the journal in hopes that the future
would be brighter.
He realizes he is being bad and he hides his journal
and returns to work.
Chapter 3
 Winston dreams – mother disappeared when he was
ten, the brown haired girl, and Shakespeare.
 Telescreen wakes him up at 7:30, orders him to do
exercises
 He thinks about the past and it makes him question
the Party.
 Hconcludes that he had never heard the word "Ingsoc"
before 1960. Therefore, the Party could not have been
omnipresent back then as it claims.
Chapter 4
 Every piece of paper is thrown into “memory holes”
where every paper is to be thrown out.
 He alters print sources to ensure that they are in
agreement with the Party’s version of past and present
events. This includes tracking down and forever
erasing references to certain persons from historical
documents once the Party has "vaporized" such
persons.
 He also makes up events.
Chapter 5
 Winston has lunch with Syme, very intelligent co-
worker.
 Winston believes he will be vaporized one day.
 Syme is revising the 11th edition of the Newspeak
Dictionary. Eventually no one will have the words to
create a rebellion.
 The brunette looks at him and Winston gets nervous
that maybe she is a member of the Thought Police.
Chapter 6
 Winston writes in his diary about sex.
 He was married to a lady named Katharine for 15
months, she has been missing for ten years.
 She is a brainwashed Party follower – she looked at sex
as a duty for the party, making future comrades.
 Winston’s desire is a Thought Crime, but he just wants
to be with someone.
Chapter 7
 Winston believes that the Proles, 85% of the citizens of
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Oceania, are the people who could overthrow the Party.
The Proles are ignored by the Party, because they are so
unintelligent.
When the past is erased, and the erasure is forgotten, the
lie becomes truth.
Winston remembers holding physical evidence of people’s
existence, but then he destroyed it.
Winston wonders whether the mind itself is controllable.
He refuses to believe that it is, though, and realizes that the
physical world exists so long as there is a mind to perceive
it, he writes freedom is the freedom to think.
He plans on giving his diary to O’Brien.
Chapter 8
 Winston is strolling the prole neighborhood and stops in a
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pub, tries to talk to an old man.
Mr. Charrington, a 63-year-old widower who had owned
the shop for about 30 years (where he bought his diary)
Winston purchases a glass paperweight containing pink
coral.
Winston wants to rent a room, a print of St. Clement’s
Church hanging where a telescreen ought to be, so he feels
it is safe and private.
He sees the brunette, and becomes paranoid that she was
indeed spying on him.
He goes home and tries to write in his diary, but can’t write
anything other than the party slogans.