In this weeks section there was not that many pages to get through, at the beginning of the section Winston is walking down the corridor and O'Brien is walking behind him and Winston turns around, O'Brien takes his shoulder and they are walking side by side until the get in front of a telescreen and he writes his address on a slip of paper and hands it to Winston telling him that he could pick up the tenth edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. And there is good foreshadowing in the last almost two sentences of page 159 that state, "...a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him." it goes to show the reader that eventually it is as if Winston is going to put himself into the grave he is stepping into due to he rebelling against the party.
This next part of the reading begins with Winston waking up with his eyes full of tears, he had awoken from a dream he had, and a memory connected to it when he had woke up. He stats, "that until this moment i beliesed i had murdered my mother?" The thought of it being your fault that someone is dead is horrid, not only does the thought change your emotions it can also consume you for the longest time until you force it to a unconsious place in your mind. The detail of the memory that Winston has is incredible, that so long ago before the party corrupted him all this happened and now that he is rebeling he sort of getting all of his memories back. On page 165 Winston stats, "The proles are human beings," he said aloud. "We are not human." This is an excilent part of the story it goes to show the reader that the proles stayed human and they didnt become corrupt and hardened inside like tha party members have.
Starting on page 167, the next section gives the reader a pretty good interpetation of the room that Winston and Julia were standing in. The book also states the it is a very rare occation that a outer party member got to see or visit the dwelling spot or and inner party member. Winston is amazed at the fact the O'Brien has the ability and the pricilege to turn off a telescreen he thinks it is pretty amazing and it seems that he sort of cant belive what he is seeing at first. Then they go into discussion starting with, "Shall i say it, or will you?" on the bottom of page 169. From there it goes to talk about O'Brien being the leader of the brotherhood or something like that and it goes to talking about if they are all ready to do all of these sacrifices to join and are ready for all this stuff, and then when he is asking the question, "You are prepared, the two of you, to seperate and never see one antoher again?", and at this time Julia speaks up and says, "No!", this goes on to the end of the section where they are leaving and O'Brien has his hand on the switch to turn the telescreen back on.
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I think the death of Winston's mother does have a profound effect on Winston, and I agree that after so long a person does need to push it to a place in their mind where they don't remember, or believe it to be untrue, so they can continue on with the rest of thier life.
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