"He was outside of his family now, over and beyond them; they were incapable of even thinking that he had done such a deed. And he had done something which even he had not thought possible." (105-106)
I picked this because it makes me empathize with his feelings. I understand how he feels. It's kind of the tingling numbness you feel after you did something you know is wrong and you don't know how to fix it. It's like when you wish you could just let everything fall away and curl up in a corner and let the world go on without you and let the consequences pass you by.
emphatically: adj. uttered with emphasis
conditioning: n. a qualification
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Native Son end of Book 1
"She was dead, and he had killed her. Me was a murderer, a Negro murderer, a black murderer. He had killed a white woman." (87)
He's terrified. Because he's black and she's a rich white woman, going up to the judge and saying, "my bad; I didn't mean it" isn't going to fly. Not that it would work for anyone, but he would get punished much more severely than a white man. Too bad; she probably did make him lose his job. He was right.
Why did he run home to sleep instead of running away and looking guilty?
He's terrified. Because he's black and she's a rich white woman, going up to the judge and saying, "my bad; I didn't mean it" isn't going to fly. Not that it would work for anyone, but he would get punished much more severely than a white man. Too bad; she probably did make him lose his job. He was right.
Why did he run home to sleep instead of running away and looking guilty?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Native Son 3
"He had a feeling toward her that was akin to that which he held towards his mother. The difference in the feelings toward Mrs. Dalton and his mother was that his mother wanted him to do the things she wanted him to do, and he felt that Mrs. Dalton wanted him to do the things he should have wanted to do." (61-62)
I like that he sees Mrs. Dalton as almost a mother-figure. She seems really nice, and he seems to like her a lot even though they just spoke and she's white. I think that they'll get along very well while he stays there.
He talked about how much he hated white people, but he seems to just be a little intimidated by rich white people. So does he only hate poor white people, or does he really hate them all? I know he sort of likes rich white people, but that doesn't mean he likes them.
I like that he sees Mrs. Dalton as almost a mother-figure. She seems really nice, and he seems to like her a lot even though they just spoke and she's white. I think that they'll get along very well while he stays there.
He talked about how much he hated white people, but he seems to just be a little intimidated by rich white people. So does he only hate poor white people, or does he really hate them all? I know he sort of likes rich white people, but that doesn't mean he likes them.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Native Son 2
"The moment a situation became so that it exacted something of him, he rebelled. That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared." (42)
Bigger, to me, is just a kid. He wants to grow up and knows he has to grow up, but he won't let himself grow up because he refuses to do what he has to do. I can be a lot like him sometimes. When someone tells me to do something, I usually do the opposite, just to spite the person. Bigger is just like that, but on a wider scale. He won't do what he absolutely needs to do, like help support his family. To be fair, he has a lot more expectations weighing on him than he can possibly deliver, and I think he knows that, and I think that has a lot to do with him trying to run away. Nobody wants to have people's lives depending on them if they can help it, because no one would want to let their people- especially their family- down.
What does a union and communism have to do with each other?
Bigger, to me, is just a kid. He wants to grow up and knows he has to grow up, but he won't let himself grow up because he refuses to do what he has to do. I can be a lot like him sometimes. When someone tells me to do something, I usually do the opposite, just to spite the person. Bigger is just like that, but on a wider scale. He won't do what he absolutely needs to do, like help support his family. To be fair, he has a lot more expectations weighing on him than he can possibly deliver, and I think he knows that, and I think that has a lot to do with him trying to run away. Nobody wants to have people's lives depending on them if they can help it, because no one would want to let their people- especially their family- down.
What does a union and communism have to do with each other?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Native Son 1
"'Goddammit!' .... 'They don't let us do nothing.'
'You talk like you just finding that out now,' Gus said.
'Naw, But I just can't get used to it,' Bigger said. 'I swear to God I can't... Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping through a knothole in the fence.'" (19-20)
Bigger feels so completely oppressed by white people in general that he feels like he's not even part of the world. It's really sad that he puts every white person in this category, but it's not his fault that he thinks that way. After being made to live like a pig, so poor that all his mother could give him was a quarter and all he had on him was a penny, I don't blame him for putting the blame on the entire race, since it was all white people on top back then.
Where are they getting their food from? Bigger's mom said that if he didn't take the job, they would starve. Is it like welfare?
'You talk like you just finding that out now,' Gus said.
'Naw, But I just can't get used to it,' Bigger said. 'I swear to God I can't... Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping through a knothole in the fence.'" (19-20)
Bigger feels so completely oppressed by white people in general that he feels like he's not even part of the world. It's really sad that he puts every white person in this category, but it's not his fault that he thinks that way. After being made to live like a pig, so poor that all his mother could give him was a quarter and all he had on him was a penny, I don't blame him for putting the blame on the entire race, since it was all white people on top back then.
Where are they getting their food from? Bigger's mom said that if he didn't take the job, they would starve. Is it like welfare?
1894 essay
Christina DeSario
Mr. George- Honors English 10
3•17•09
1984 Essay
How Winston is Supposed to be Perceived
It is easy to give up when the force you are fighting against seems far too powerful to overcome. It is more than easy, it is practical and sensible to give up when failure is imminent. However, does giving up mean the person is a failure? If someone is fighting an enemy who is controlling an entire country or more full of people, and the person gives up because the system tortures, starves, and terrifies him, is he still a hero for opposing the force knowing the outcome will only be pain? Or, is that someone simply a regular person with an ounce more courage than most of the population? Maybe fighting against the powerful enemy makes him an idiot and not a hero, because there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. Winston, the main character from 1984, can be classified as either a hero, a failure, or an average Joe. With all that he went through and all that happened, it is clear that Winston is not a hero or failure, just an everyday man trying to free himself.
Winston Smith is an average man in the beginning of the book. He works for the Outer Party and does his job with the bare minimum amount of emotion necessary on his face. He is always suspicious and skeptical of what is announced over the telescreen, but he always rejoices with the crowd. This is more than just a little peer pressure, it is a matter of life and death.
Alone, however, Winston is very different. He has a heretical mind that made him go out and buy a diary at an antique shop. “For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn” (7). He decided to write a note to another time from the time of The Party to inform them of their lives under the strict dictatorship of Big Brother- or so he believed. Honestly, he wrote things down for himself and only himself. He committed heresy because the telescreen could not see him and did not suspect him. Most importantly, he wrote in his diary because he could, and he wanted to. It was something that he could do that the Party would not detect for at least a while, and it was an act of freedom. He took his first step to personal liberty when he bought the diary, and he took another step when he decided to write in it.
Winston is not a hero, nor is he a failure. He is not a hero because, in his heart, he only rebelled for himself. He did not have the greater good as his motivation. “’Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her! Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’” (286). Apparently, he loved Julia. He was supposed to love Julia more than himself, but when worse came to worst, he betrayed even her. If it is possible to betray your love like that, then it would be even easier to do so to a random stranger, or even a large group of people. Meaning, Winston would have sacrificed the whole of Oceania if he were placed in the situation with the rats again. A hero would not sacrifice the people he tries to save. A hero would have endured for the sake of his cause. Fighting does not make him a hero.
Seeing that he went against the Party may make it seem as though he really is a hero, but that is untrue. A hero does what he needs to and isn’t willing to pretend or hurt the innocent: “‘Are you prepared to commit murder?... To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people?... If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests, to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face- are you prepared to do that?’ ‘Yes’” (172). Winston, for years and years, was feigning loyalty to Big Brother. He pretended he was good at doublethink, when in fact he remembered those who had been vaporized. He made it seem like he hated Goldstein when he really hoped for his existence. Winston played the part of a follower to save himself. Had he not met Julia, he would never have tried to get into the Brotherhood. He needed someone to get him started and be by his side. He didn’t do it himself; he couldn’t do it himself. Most importantly, if Julia had never told him she loved him, he would never have done anything other than live a lie and write in his diary. A real hero would not have needed the extra push. Although it seems so, Winston was not a failure.
A failure is a term that can not even be applied to Winston. To call Winston a failure would be a lie. He held out for a long time, doing things that others would be literally too terrified to even think about. He might not have finished to meet his goal, and he might have given in out of fear, but, as one passage says, he held out through physical torture: “Sometimes he was beaten till he could hardly stand, then flung like a sack of potatoes onto the stone floor of the cell, left to recuperate for a few hours, then taken out and beaten again” (241). To go through that and still say with certainty: “‘Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!’ The needle must have risen again, but he did not look at it” (250). to the face of someone who wants to hear five means Winston had a lot of guts- or he was just very stubborn. Winston could not lose until he saw what the Party saw. He eventually did lose, but he did not fail because he had gone as far as he could.
Eventually, when threatened with his greatest fear, Winston lost the battle against the Party. His vision changed into the vision of the Party. He became a follower of Big Brother, a master at doublethink, and a goodthinker. Fear had made him that way. That fear shows that he is nothing more than an average human; a normal man trying to liberate himself so that he could live the way he wanted without the chain restraints forced on him by the Party. Winston and another man in the book are very different in the way they view the Party. That other man is Parsons. When comparing the characters Parsons and Winston, their differences are pathetically obvious. Parsons followed the rules of the Party very closely and even did extra for the community out of fear. Parsons, as loyal as he tried to be, was eventually found out: “‘Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep... ‘Down with Big Brother!’ Yes, I said that!’” (233). In that way, Winston and Parsons are very much alike. The only difference? Winston had the conscious understanding that he hated the Party, while Parsons was only aware in his sleep. They both know they are being oppressed, but Winston is willing to make a change while Parsons is not. Apart from that difference, their beliefs are the same. This shows that Winston was a normal man in his hatred of Big Brother. Even a man so loyal and fervent to the Party as Parsons truly hates it. Winston is different only because he had the courage and opportunity to try to retaliate to make his world better.
Winston fought for himself next to Julia, who fought for herself. After their experiences in the Ministry of Love, Julia says, “You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself” (292). When faced with her greatest fear, she betrayed Winston. And when Winston says that he abandoned her, “she gave him another quick look of dislike” (292). It is as if she expected Winston to be stronger than her and that it is all right for her to betray him, but it is some mortal sin for him to do the same to her. Winston did better than she had! He had held on and done his best not to betray her, but he could not help it. Winston lasted much, much longer than Julia without betraying her, but he eventually gave in from fear. This is how Winston is more of a normal man than a hero or a failure.
With all that he went through and all that happened, it is clear that Winston is not a hero or failure, just an everyday man trying to free himself. Winston, although he did not win against the Party, did not lose either. For an ordinary man to face his death head on is an admirable thing. When people see things wrong in the government, even in the democratic government of America, many people will ignore it and let it go, or leave it to others. Winston saw what was wrong and, with the help of Julia, prepared to fight with the possible price of their lives.
Mr. George- Honors English 10
3•17•09
1984 Essay
How Winston is Supposed to be Perceived
It is easy to give up when the force you are fighting against seems far too powerful to overcome. It is more than easy, it is practical and sensible to give up when failure is imminent. However, does giving up mean the person is a failure? If someone is fighting an enemy who is controlling an entire country or more full of people, and the person gives up because the system tortures, starves, and terrifies him, is he still a hero for opposing the force knowing the outcome will only be pain? Or, is that someone simply a regular person with an ounce more courage than most of the population? Maybe fighting against the powerful enemy makes him an idiot and not a hero, because there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. Winston, the main character from 1984, can be classified as either a hero, a failure, or an average Joe. With all that he went through and all that happened, it is clear that Winston is not a hero or failure, just an everyday man trying to free himself.
Winston Smith is an average man in the beginning of the book. He works for the Outer Party and does his job with the bare minimum amount of emotion necessary on his face. He is always suspicious and skeptical of what is announced over the telescreen, but he always rejoices with the crowd. This is more than just a little peer pressure, it is a matter of life and death.
Alone, however, Winston is very different. He has a heretical mind that made him go out and buy a diary at an antique shop. “For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn” (7). He decided to write a note to another time from the time of The Party to inform them of their lives under the strict dictatorship of Big Brother- or so he believed. Honestly, he wrote things down for himself and only himself. He committed heresy because the telescreen could not see him and did not suspect him. Most importantly, he wrote in his diary because he could, and he wanted to. It was something that he could do that the Party would not detect for at least a while, and it was an act of freedom. He took his first step to personal liberty when he bought the diary, and he took another step when he decided to write in it.
Winston is not a hero, nor is he a failure. He is not a hero because, in his heart, he only rebelled for himself. He did not have the greater good as his motivation. “’Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her! Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!’” (286). Apparently, he loved Julia. He was supposed to love Julia more than himself, but when worse came to worst, he betrayed even her. If it is possible to betray your love like that, then it would be even easier to do so to a random stranger, or even a large group of people. Meaning, Winston would have sacrificed the whole of Oceania if he were placed in the situation with the rats again. A hero would not sacrifice the people he tries to save. A hero would have endured for the sake of his cause. Fighting does not make him a hero.
Seeing that he went against the Party may make it seem as though he really is a hero, but that is untrue. A hero does what he needs to and isn’t willing to pretend or hurt the innocent: “‘Are you prepared to commit murder?... To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people?... If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests, to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face- are you prepared to do that?’ ‘Yes’” (172). Winston, for years and years, was feigning loyalty to Big Brother. He pretended he was good at doublethink, when in fact he remembered those who had been vaporized. He made it seem like he hated Goldstein when he really hoped for his existence. Winston played the part of a follower to save himself. Had he not met Julia, he would never have tried to get into the Brotherhood. He needed someone to get him started and be by his side. He didn’t do it himself; he couldn’t do it himself. Most importantly, if Julia had never told him she loved him, he would never have done anything other than live a lie and write in his diary. A real hero would not have needed the extra push. Although it seems so, Winston was not a failure.
A failure is a term that can not even be applied to Winston. To call Winston a failure would be a lie. He held out for a long time, doing things that others would be literally too terrified to even think about. He might not have finished to meet his goal, and he might have given in out of fear, but, as one passage says, he held out through physical torture: “Sometimes he was beaten till he could hardly stand, then flung like a sack of potatoes onto the stone floor of the cell, left to recuperate for a few hours, then taken out and beaten again” (241). To go through that and still say with certainty: “‘Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!’ The needle must have risen again, but he did not look at it” (250). to the face of someone who wants to hear five means Winston had a lot of guts- or he was just very stubborn. Winston could not lose until he saw what the Party saw. He eventually did lose, but he did not fail because he had gone as far as he could.
Eventually, when threatened with his greatest fear, Winston lost the battle against the Party. His vision changed into the vision of the Party. He became a follower of Big Brother, a master at doublethink, and a goodthinker. Fear had made him that way. That fear shows that he is nothing more than an average human; a normal man trying to liberate himself so that he could live the way he wanted without the chain restraints forced on him by the Party. Winston and another man in the book are very different in the way they view the Party. That other man is Parsons. When comparing the characters Parsons and Winston, their differences are pathetically obvious. Parsons followed the rules of the Party very closely and even did extra for the community out of fear. Parsons, as loyal as he tried to be, was eventually found out: “‘Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep... ‘Down with Big Brother!’ Yes, I said that!’” (233). In that way, Winston and Parsons are very much alike. The only difference? Winston had the conscious understanding that he hated the Party, while Parsons was only aware in his sleep. They both know they are being oppressed, but Winston is willing to make a change while Parsons is not. Apart from that difference, their beliefs are the same. This shows that Winston was a normal man in his hatred of Big Brother. Even a man so loyal and fervent to the Party as Parsons truly hates it. Winston is different only because he had the courage and opportunity to try to retaliate to make his world better.
Winston fought for himself next to Julia, who fought for herself. After their experiences in the Ministry of Love, Julia says, “You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself” (292). When faced with her greatest fear, she betrayed Winston. And when Winston says that he abandoned her, “she gave him another quick look of dislike” (292). It is as if she expected Winston to be stronger than her and that it is all right for her to betray him, but it is some mortal sin for him to do the same to her. Winston did better than she had! He had held on and done his best not to betray her, but he could not help it. Winston lasted much, much longer than Julia without betraying her, but he eventually gave in from fear. This is how Winston is more of a normal man than a hero or a failure.
With all that he went through and all that happened, it is clear that Winston is not a hero or failure, just an everyday man trying to free himself. Winston, although he did not win against the Party, did not lose either. For an ordinary man to face his death head on is an admirable thing. When people see things wrong in the government, even in the democratic government of America, many people will ignore it and let it go, or leave it to others. Winston saw what was wrong and, with the help of Julia, prepared to fight with the possible price of their lives.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
1984 end
"He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." (298)
We seem to be in a pattern of reading books with shitty endings. That was honestly terrible. After everything he went through- all the pain and torment- rats make him betray Julia and love Big Brother?! That's so stupid! It makes me angry! I wouldn't have given in to BB after all of that, even if they were forcing me to eat poisonous spiders while popping balloons in my ear (since I'm afraid of spiders and I hate sudden noises). I'm so disappointed in Winston.
inviolate: n. free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
inscrutability: adj. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable
We seem to be in a pattern of reading books with shitty endings. That was honestly terrible. After everything he went through- all the pain and torment- rats make him betray Julia and love Big Brother?! That's so stupid! It makes me angry! I wouldn't have given in to BB after all of that, even if they were forcing me to eat poisonous spiders while popping balloons in my ear (since I'm afraid of spiders and I hate sudden noises). I'm so disappointed in Winston.
inviolate: n. free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
inscrutability: adj. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
1984 III
"'You have thought sometimes,' said O'Brien, 'that my face- the face of the Inner Party- looks old and worn. What do you think of your own face?'" (272)
Winston got old and ugly in the months he was with the Party. O'Brien's quote shows that he is trying to change Winston as much as possible. He's saying that the Inner Party is old and ugly and easy to hate, but that now Winston looked the exact same way. There is no difference between Winston and the Party, especially after replaying the promises Winston and Julia made to each other about joining the Brotherhood.
hedonistic: n. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
abasement: v. to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
Winston got old and ugly in the months he was with the Party. O'Brien's quote shows that he is trying to change Winston as much as possible. He's saying that the Inner Party is old and ugly and easy to hate, but that now Winston looked the exact same way. There is no difference between Winston and the Party, especially after replaying the promises Winston and Julia made to each other about joining the Brotherhood.
hedonistic: n. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
abasement: v. to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
1984 II
"O'Brien smiled again. 'She betrayed you, Winston... I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly... All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirtymindedness- everything has been burned out. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case.'
'You tortured her.'
O'Brien left this unanswered. 'Next question,' he said"
Even though Winston was holding on to himself as well as he could, Julia let go right away. She really wasn't a rebel, as Winston said earlier in the book. It was kind of sad, because I hoped that that wouldn't happen. If I were Winston, I would have felt betrayed and angry, but he wasn't either of the two. In fact, he seemed a little bitter toward O'Brien.
espionage: n. The act of spying; the use of spies by the government to discover the secrets of other nations
materialized: v. to become real; to assume a bodily form
'You tortured her.'
O'Brien left this unanswered. 'Next question,' he said"
Even though Winston was holding on to himself as well as he could, Julia let go right away. She really wasn't a rebel, as Winston said earlier in the book. It was kind of sad, because I hoped that that wouldn't happen. If I were Winston, I would have felt betrayed and angry, but he wasn't either of the two. In fact, he seemed a little bitter toward O'Brien.
espionage: n. The act of spying; the use of spies by the government to discover the secrets of other nations
materialized: v. to become real; to assume a bodily form
Monday, March 9, 2009
1984 X
"It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police." (224)
Mr. Charrington, whom Winston trusted and liked, ended up being a fake. He was dressed as an old man, but was really a member of the Thought Police and was spying on Winston and Julia's affair. After some time, the two were caught because of their naive trust. The two are finally found out by The Party. Just before being found out, the two had said, "We are the dead." It was a coincidence that they were then caught, and are now going to become the dead.
Chopper: n. a person or thing that chops
Supple: adj. lithe; ability to bend easily
Mr. Charrington, whom Winston trusted and liked, ended up being a fake. He was dressed as an old man, but was really a member of the Thought Police and was spying on Winston and Julia's affair. After some time, the two were caught because of their naive trust. The two are finally found out by The Party. Just before being found out, the two had said, "We are the dead." It was a coincidence that they were then caught, and are now going to become the dead.
Chopper: n. a person or thing that chops
Supple: adj. lithe; ability to bend easily
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
1984 pt. 2 Ignorance is Strength
"Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory... all knowledge... are... directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face is on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure he will never die, and there is... uncertainty as to when he was born. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than... an organization." (208)
Big Brother the leader may not even exist at all. He may be a group of people using one person as their voice. A person with Big Brother's face may never even exist, but the people are forced to follow this ghost as if it were a real person. The people are forced to give their passionate emotions to Big Brother so that they are under the control of the Party.
expropriated: v. The confiscation of private property with the purpose of creating social equality.
perpetuating: v. To save from extinction
Big Brother the leader may not even exist at all. He may be a group of people using one person as their voice. A person with Big Brother's face may never even exist, but the people are forced to follow this ghost as if it were a real person. The people are forced to give their passionate emotions to Big Brother so that they are under the control of the Party.
expropriated: v. The confiscation of private property with the purpose of creating social equality.
perpetuating: v. To save from extinction
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
1984 pt. 2 War Is Peace
"In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of death." (186)
The people of this time have gotten so used to death and devastation that they're desensitized, and all that they know is happening is a certain food or item is in a shortage. Even the rocket bombs are sort of blown off by them as only causing a few deaths, as if human lives are dispensable.
reprisal: n. The practice of using political or military force without actually resorting to war.
alignment: n. Arrangement or position in a straight line or in parallel lines.
The people of this time have gotten so used to death and devastation that they're desensitized, and all that they know is happening is a certain food or item is in a shortage. Even the rocket bombs are sort of blown off by them as only causing a few deaths, as if human lives are dispensable.
reprisal: n. The practice of using political or military force without actually resorting to war.
alignment: n. Arrangement or position in a straight line or in parallel lines.
Monday, March 2, 2009
1984 pt. 2 ch. 4&5
"Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing... a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day, no body mentioned him. On the third day Winston went... to look at the notice board... It looked almost almost exactly as it had looked before- nothing had been crossed out- But it was one dame shorter... Syme had ceased to exist; he had never existed." (147)
Syme was vaporized. This is important because he was very loyal to the Party, but he was taken off the face of the Earth because he was too smart for them. He intimidated them, even though he liked the Party. The Party will take anyone out the moment they sense even the smallest possibility of danger.
bolster: n. long, narrow pillow or cushion
muslin: n. Any of various sturdy cotton fabrics of plain weave, used especially for sheets.
Syme was vaporized. This is important because he was very loyal to the Party, but he was taken off the face of the Earth because he was too smart for them. He intimidated them, even though he liked the Party. The Party will take anyone out the moment they sense even the smallest possibility of danger.
bolster: n. long, narrow pillow or cushion
muslin: n. Any of various sturdy cotton fabrics of plain weave, used especially for sheets.
1984 pt. 2 ch. 3
"It's generally safe to use any hide-out twice. But not for another month or two, of course" (126)
Julia seems to have everything all figured out. It's like she has a whole plan in her head that she had carefully articulated. She knows a lot about sneaking around and how to stay safe while using almost obsessive caution.
enunciating: v. To announce
systematically: adj. using step-by-step procedures
Julia seems to have everything all figured out. It's like she has a whole plan in her head that she had carefully articulated. She knows a lot about sneaking around and how to stay safe while using almost obsessive caution.
enunciating: v. To announce
systematically: adj. using step-by-step procedures
1984 pt. 2 ch. 1
"At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid." (109)
Winston feels that because he was told he was loved, the Party is not as strong as it used to be. Or rather, that he was stronger than the Party, or could become stronger.
inapplicable: adj. irrelevant
folly: n. act of foolishness
Winston feels that because he was told he was loved, the Party is not as strong as it used to be. Or rather, that he was stronger than the Party, or could become stronger.
inapplicable: adj. irrelevant
folly: n. act of foolishness
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