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CH.2 Main Events: • Winston takes hair out of Mr.Parsons’ plugged sink • Mrs. Parson’s children accuse Winston of being a traitor and a criminal thinker • Winston remembers that he has dreamed of O’Brien once, but he still can’t identify him as a friend or enemy Quotes and Questions: • Low living conditions: “boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building” (p.21) • Atomic pistol is seen as a toy (p.22) • You cant even trust your family: • “another year, two years…symptoms of unorthodoxy” (p.24) • “…almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children” (p.24) • Big Brother, the Party, etc. was “a sort of glorious game to them(the children)” (p.24) CH.3 Main Events: • Winston dreams of his mother and his sister • In his dream he knows that they died so that he could live in a tragic way • Winston does morning fitness with the telescreen while thinking about the past and the party’s version of it. • Winston tries to remember his childhood • He believes that he remembers a long time of peace before the war • Winston slowly recognizes that the party manipulates the past and the future. Quotes and Questions: • “tragedy, (…) belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love and friendship, and when the members of the family stood by one another without needing to know the reason” (p.28) (for more read further p.28-29) • His mother and sister resemble the values of the old time • Winston dreams of a girl that throws her clothes aside “as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time.” (p.29) • Talks about love • The war in his childhood is the second world war • “…the enemy of the movement always represented absolute evil…” (p.32) • Still true in politics today-propaganda • “to know and not to know…the use of double think” (p.32-33) • Reflects main idea of the book !Important!
Approximate Word count = 1282
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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