The Last One!!

Chapters 4-6 of book 3
Summary: After much time in the torture room, Winston is moved to a better room and he receives less torture. He is able to gain weight and earns a small writing tablet. He realizes that opposing was a stupid idea and he writes the parties slogan on his board. One day, after bottling all his anger, he screams JULIA many times over and over. He does this even though it will cause him much pain. He tells O'Brien that he hates big brother. He will obey him but hate him. O'Brien tells him that is not enough and sends him to the dreaded room 101.
In room 101 Winston is strapped to a chair and made so he can not move. O'Brien holds a cage of hungry rats up to Winstons face and tells him he will let them loose if he does not agree to betray Julia. Winston then cracks and says he would rather have her be punished instead of them. When he says this the rats are taken away.
Winston is freed from the Ministry of Love and finds himself at a small cafe. He accepts what Big Brother teaches and is now sick when he sees Julia. He remembers his memories shared with his mother. He sees a picture of Big Brother on a telescreen and realizes the love he has for him.
Connection: This ending is hard to make a connection to. Everything turns out ok and he seems to have gotten over his problems. This is similar to the Holocaust, but the Jews were not ok.

Lucky Five

This is Chapter 10 of book two through chapter 3 of book three.
Winston and Julia wake up in the secret room to music being played below outside the window. They start to think ONCE AGAIN about an uprising of the proles and then they make a statement which brings everything to a halt. "WE ARE DEAD!" and a third voice says "YOU ARE DEAD." They realize there is a hidden telescreen behind a portrait in the room. Then both of them hear stomping going on all around the house. The police come and start to beat both Winston and Julia. Then Mr. Charrington (the man who owns the store) comes in barking orders. Winston then realizes his voice was the one over the telescreen. Mr. Charrington is on the THOUGHT POLICE!!
Winston arrives at the place where there is no darkness. A bright cell with four telescreens and a large prole woman standing guard. He wonders if the woman could be his mother. They share the same last name... Smith. He is forced to share is cell with many different odd fellows. He then sees starvation and beating going on everywhere. He longs for a razorblade so he can commit suicide. A police man smashes his elbow and Winston must lay there in pain.
Winston waits and talks to O'Brien about how wonderful big brother is and the way they have perfected the government. He realizes that Julia betrayed him immediately and O'Brien tells him that he does not exist.
After two weeks O'Brien and Winston talk motives of the party. Winston has started to deteriorate and become gray in the face. He weeps over Julia and fears the worse. He knows what lies ahead and wishes it wouldn't happen. He knows that he brought this upon himself by starting his diary.
Inference: He will get out of the cell and meet back up with Julia.
Connection: Once again this reminds me of Hitler and Germany. They captured tons of Jews and treated them like they are nothing.

Number Four and Still More

Part Two Chapters 5-9
We skipped chapters two through four because they were practically useless! ha
So here is the summary.. In preperation for Hate Week the proles start to become Rowdy. Winston dreams of when he can spend more time with Julia (a women he is in love with but can not marry because he is still legally marrie but yet seperated.) He wishes is first wife would die just so he could marry Julia. Thoughts of changing his identity to become a prole even cross his mind. He discusses the party and the history that they make up with Julia.
WInston meets with O'Brien a coworker and agrees to meet him at his house just so he can see a Newspeak dictionary. (the "new" language of his country.) He thinks rebelliously and knows he will soon end up at the ministry of Love where he will be killed.
Winston wakes up in the upstairs room of a shop which he as rented with his forbidden love Julia in his arms. He has been crying for he believes he was the man who murdered his mother. He wishes the party wouldn't of stopped human feelings all together. He knows he loves Julia but his love is not to be expressed. They both know of the dangers being together proposes, but they still agree to stay.
The next day the travel to O'Briens house together. He turns off the Telescreen and they all swear to rebellion. After Julia leaves the two men discuss the rebellion further.
At an Hate rally citizens get embarrassed when they are told they have been chanting things which are not true about the local war. Winston goes to the secret room and reads a book on teachings from a man against the party
Inference: Julia and Winston will get married and the proles will go forth with a Revolution.
Connection: This reminds me of slavery. When the African Americans were told things were better than they really were and that things would continue to get better.

Third Times a Charm!

Chapter 8
Summary: Winston walks through the run down part of town. The area where the proles live. He talks to an older man hoping to find some important information about the true past of the city. He realizes that this mans memory is far gone, and most proles do not care about the past. Then he stops by the same place he bought the diary. He buys a paperweight and talks with the owner. He shows him a picture of a church. As Winston walks home he realizes the girl from his office is following him home. He thinks about hitting her with the paperweight to get rid of the temptation she brings upon him. Then he decides that he should commit suicide to avoid toture from the thought police if they catch him.
Inference: He is NOT going to commit suicide. He is going to find some other way around the thought police. Probably getting the proles to help him out.
Connection: This part reminds me of Anne Frank and the Jews in Germany. They are always running and fearing for their lives. Never knowing what is going to happen.

Magic Number 2!

Chapters 4-7
Summary: (I did this reading in two different parts so I will summarize that way so that I am able to remember.)In the first part of this reading Winston is going to work at the Ministry of Truth. This is the part of the government that alters historical records so that they all match the teachings and ways of big brother. On this specific day he is altering a speech from the 80's. The man who gave the speech was a member of the Party but then turned against it. He was executed by the party, therefore he had was forced to make a new person up to make the story sound correct. Then he starts to reflect on the crazy ideas that Big Brother passes as correct.
In the second section (chapters 6&7) Winston writes in his diary about his hopes for a revolution or over ruling of the government. He realizes that any revolt must come from the "proles." They make up most of the population in the country but they are so poor the government does not care about them. They could easily have the man power and supplies to take over the police force. Then he reads a childrens book detailing the "supposed" history of the city. He does not believe that this history is correct. It shows perfect cities, with perfect children and perfect food supply. All of which is completly opposite in real life. He remembers a time when he caught the party/big brother in a lie. Covering for old party leaders when really they were in a different country commiting crimes. He just wants to tell things how he sees them. To express what reality truely is.
Connection: I still have the connection of being suppresed. Not being able to do what you want when you want. Or being told an awful secret by a friend and being force to keep it to yourself.
Inference: One of two things is going to happen. He is going to have to start running from big brother because they caught him with the diary. Or he is going to plan a revolt!!

The First of Many :)

Chapters 1-3
Summary: In the first three chapters of "1984" we find out alot of interesting details about the way people lived in and around this specific year. The story takes place in Oceania.
Winston is a member of the "party" or the government as we would call it. This party is also know as Big Brother. The government controls everything within the peoples lives. They control when you exercise, what you say, and even what you think. They have what is called the thought police. The government can tell all that you think and say. They can tap into your lives whenever they feel its necessary. If you say or think anything that goes against the government you will be sentenced to death!! Duh Duh Dun!!
Winston finds himself buying a diary and writing down his unpardonable thoughts. He comes home from work one day and realizes that he has written DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER! DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER! all over his notebook. Then all of a sudden a knock at the door. Could it be the thought police??
Nope! It is just his neighbor asking for plumbing help. Her children are part of a young spies program, and he fears they will figure him out. Their own mother is afraid of what they will do to her.
Then he goes back to his apartment to dream. He remebers dreams about his co-workers and his mother. (She strangely disappeared 20 years ago.).
After he comes back to reality he is forced to exercise. Feeling like someone is watching, he hears a voice coming from the T.V. telling him to try harder.
Inference: I am assuming he will go on with the diary. Tryin to hide his feelings and keep himself alive. I also think others are going to start feeling the same way.
Connection: The only real connection I can think of is times when I am sitting in my Debate class. I have a strong opinion about the subject being discussed, but I can not share. It starts to eat at you and you wonder if the thought will ever leave your mind.

A New Book

Today in english I was assigned a new book. For the next two weeks I will be reading the book "1984" Yippee!! More homework.