PARt 2, VIII

At the beginning of the Chapter, Winston is very surprised when, Obrien turns off the telescreen. He didn't think it was possible or a smart thing to do. I think if anything, it puts Obrien under suspicion. What makes him so special? He is like any other Party member right? So why does he have this special type of privilege. Which by the way he acted, sounded like he'd done it before. I think Obriens confidence, gives him away. He does things and doesn't seem to hesitate. Winston, is very surprised, but doesn't think much about it. Sooner or later the Party catches you. That's what they say and that is what they do. Obrien, seems like has done this numerous times before, so why doesn't he get caught or is investigated by the Party and especially under all his mystery why does he have the special privilege of turning off telescreens? These are clues, which Winston seems to ignore. I think desperateness is what makes Winston make such foolish choices. He realizes that without the help of someone powerful, he might not get any where. He desperately needs Obrien's help, so much that he's willing to believe what he says and deny the facts and clues infront of him. Winston wants to believe Obrien is good, because if he weren't there would be no way out.... nothing else to do.

Chapter VII

1. Winston's dream and the realization it brought him about the Party.
2. Winston and Julia again talk about how their capture is inevitable. They also talk about what the Party will do to them when they confess. What hope does Winston hold to? What does he say will exist no matter what the Party does to him?

Winston has a dream about his mother. He says he murdered his mother. However not physically but mentally. He describes how, they constantly lived in hunger, and underground. He feels guilty because he was very hungry and stole a chocolate bar, and ran away. Never to see his mother again. Winston hates the party for, eliminating human feelings. He feels that proles in a way can still feel emotion, making them more human than a party member, who in turn follows strict rules and isn't allowed to feel emotion. Winston is haunted by the memory of his mother, mostly because of all the guilt he feels. He blames the party for everything that happened and how he feels. HE HATES THE PARTY, FOR IN A WAY, messing up something which was important to him, which was his mother. The party's cold cruel ways, make him and other party members almost inhuman, unable to feel pain.

Winston and Julia talk about them getting caught, and how the room they rented, will increase their chances of getting caught. Winston and Julia know that once they get caught, they will end up confessing. The torture will be too much. Winston says to Julia that he hopes she won't betray him and he wasn't referring to her confessing. Winston hopes that overall Julia will still love him. The party can torture all the people if they wanted. But one thing they can't remove is their inner feelings and emotions. They can't take away someones love or hate toward another person. This is why the Party wants to eliminate emotion, it's the only thing that they cannot control. By eliminating emotion, people can't feel, reassuring the party that they still have total control. If people were able to feel emotion, the Party probably wouldn't even be in control. Emotions allow people to help others, such as a child for their parent. But with no emotions children turn in their parents. Winston and Julia are committing a crime by feeling emotion. Nothing the Party can ever do, will make them feel differently about each other or take that love away. Overall Winston holds on to the hope that no matter what happens he will always have the love of Julia.

Chapter VI

My reaction to Winston, is that he is very foolish for trusting Obrien who is a complete stranger. He doesn't know him, on a personal level, and he could be anyone. I think that Winston doesn't really consider his every move and action. He knows that one day;someday, he'll get caught. I think he relies more on his diary than anything. His diary will be prof of everything he knew. By Obrien's, actions and the way he talked to Winston, anyone can assume that Obrien seems like he has experience. He talked to Winston, so sure of himself. He knew everything to say when and where to say it. It makes him look very suspicious, not to mention when Obrien mentioned Syme or like he referred to it someone he can't remember. It makes him look very suspicious, be it that Syme had only disappeared a day ago. Which enforces my opinion that Winston is foolish. He is so excited about finally being able to talk to Obrien and getting his address, that he simply brushes off all these little clues, which may lead someone to think that Obrien isn't being completely truthful. Winston seems very rapped up in the moment. Winston excepts his fate, but doesn't realize that some of his actions might get him killed sooner than anticipated.

part two chapter five.

In chapter 5. Syme disappears, which was something Winston foreshadowed in the beginning of the book. So I'm not surprised. The two minutes hate is here, and parsons kids wrote a new hate song. Relating it to real life, parents even though they hate something or someone never encourage their children to hate or spread hatred. But this is what happens in the book, in a way. I don't think Parsons or his wife, encourage this type of hate, in the children, because they have so little control over them, like most parents. Which goes to show, how much control the party has over every person prole or not. They have more control over the children then the parents do, so all children being wild and out of control works well to the party's control. Parsons kids are just an example of many other kids in Oceania.
I'm not sure, but i think I can picture why Winston hated his ex wife so much. Because before I didn't really understand. Winston, imagines being able to kill Katherine, so he could be with Julia. Which sounded really cold to me at first, because I can't imagine someone wishing another persons death, just so he could be with someone else. I think, that Winston hates Katherine for not being able to be completely intimate with him. He hates that she couldn't or wasn't able to set the party aside for just one minute. He hates her ignorance and that she was such a loyal follower. Which she showed him, after splitting up with him, when they couldn't have children. Julia on the other hand is a fighter, but for the wrong reasons. It's like a person who helps police find a thief but only because they want the reward money. That's the best way I can describe Julia. Winston finally yells at her because she is a rebel for all the wrong reasons. SHE DOES NOT value her life and instead puts having a good time in front. I think this is a bit frustrating for Winston, since he sees how shes putting her life in danger but at the end most of what she did wouldn't have mad a difference. Katerine and Julia are completely opposite. But at the end, it doesn't matter, because Winston doesn't love either one. Like Juila rebells for the wrong reasons, Winston also "loves" Julia for the wrong reasons.

Political Act.

Winston refers to what he and Julia did as being a political act. What is meant by that? Explain your analysis.

"But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow against the Party. It was a political act."

I think that the author refers to Julia and Winston have relations as a political act. The author says this is a political act, because what they did was such a huge blow to the party. Winston told Julia that the more people she's been with the more he loves her, but this is only because she's going against the party by doing this. By them being together, they are completely going against the party, and it symbolizes the start of a new turning point in the book. The begging of the book is mostly an introduction into the characters and Winston's life. The end of this chapter, symbolizes a possible movement, or change that will occur, because of Julia and Winston, having relations. These two characters are very important and powerful in the story. Them getting together symbolizes, two strong forces, leading rebellion, which can lead to either a huge movement or D-E-AT-H. This is why what Winston and Julia did is referred to a political act, they are indirectly going politically against the party, even though they themselves are a part of it.

1984. END OF PART 1.

END OF PART ONE FINALLY! =]
My feelings towards the end of part one is wow. I've always known that our government of today is corrupt but so far reading the book and comparing it to our life's there is so much more to the whole situation than I had imagined. Its amazing to me how George Orwell had wrote this book as a prediction of the future and that almost everything he discusses actually is happening today. After reading part one I'm feeling kind of aggravated and angry. From outside looking in everything seems to obvious and sometimes I have a hard time trying to figure out why these people don't try to do anything about it. Or why the proles don't take a stand. However everything changes if your one of the characters or people experiencing this either in the book or in modern day life. We middle class normal people are proles, like in the book just as they are unaware and oblivious we are too. We never pay attention to this fact because over everything, we do think we are informed and educated. But we really are not. The proles in the book don't take action because sadly they do not no what the problem is in the first place. ANOTHER thing that I feel after reading part one is a bit bored, because the mood throughout the whole first part is basically the same. The whole first part, to me seems focused on the same things over and over again, there doesn't seem to be a big twist or something to my full interest. I know some people might disagree, and I could be completely wrong. But this is just my opinion.
However, I do give credit to the book, because of this book I view life and society in a different way. Summing up what I have learned... it's bascially just, not to always trust or fully believe what others say. Whether its your parent or a stranger. ALSO.... Their is more to the truth that meets the eye!!!! SOMETHING HUGE, that i have learned about this book SO FAR. This book has inspired me, to behave less like a prole and more like a citizen. To be honest I'm not sure what or how the book will unfold considering we haven't gotten to the climax yet and pretty much anything can happen. However, my prediction about the end of the book is that I think that Winston will probably die. The leader of the rebells always die. Even if Winston is able to convince other people to fight for a cause he will die anyway because he started the movement and committed the crime of thought. The party will attack him because he will become the force of the group. However, I am unsure if he will even be able to open up other peoples eyes, or create a movement. Considering he was willing to kill himself just over speculation that he had been caught.