Saturday, February 21, 2009

Final Post...10

Pages 291-End of book (312)

5.-The idea of control drove Winston.
-Every time Winston meets a girl, a sensation of passion over comes him.
-Winston still acts as if hes under their control.
-Winston's writing will never be seen again.
-No literary work will ever be translated to present day life.

4.- Will Winston ever know whats it room 101?
-Will there ever be another person like Winston?
-What will happen for the government?
-Will the Brotherhood fall soon?

3.- Quines
-Conjoint
-Scrounging

2.-"Not until 2050"; Foreshadow (Page 312)
-"Life belongs to the hands of your own" Metaphor (Page 293)

1.- Winston escapes and runs away.

Post number 9

Pages 259-291

5.-He is thrown into a force labor camp.
- O'Brien is torturing him for information.
- Winston is allowed to ask questions.
-The government wants to know what Winston's mind is able to think on its own.
- The questions he wants answered aren't

4.- Why does O'Brien choose to answer some questions of Winston?
-What information did they want out of Winston?
-Will Winston ever go free? or die?
-What is in room 101?

3.-Elegantly
-Inconceivable
-Luminous

2.- "The bolt of pain shot to his jaw like lightning": Simile (Page 271).
- "The shrieking of the glass" Personification (Page 284).

1.- He is being tortured by O'Brien.

Post number 8

Pages 227-259
5.- Winston takes the slightest joke way to serious.
- He was right to always be paranoid.
- He lets tinny little things like humming drive him crazy.
- It's almost as if Winston has not fully developed an adults mind-set.
- He is becoming somewhat insane.

4.- Why does he act the way he does?
- Is his mother still alive?
- Will Smith help Winston escape?
- Will Winston ever escape?

3.- Posterity
- Caricaturist
- Jeering

2.- "A thin, cultivating voice": Personification (Page 222)
- "I have it on my power to inflict as much pain into your body as i please": Conflict (Page 245)

1.- He is now starting to be interrogated by O'Brien.

Post number 7

Pages 195-227
5.- The book take up about 40 pages.
- The book explains why the world is they way it is.
- We enter chapter 3 of the book.
- Winston is captured by the government.
- He meats a drunk Lady named Smith.

4.- Is this the book they referee to in the beginning?
- Did anyone set Winston up to be captured?
- What significance does Smith have in the story?
- What hints will the mystery book give us about the ending of the book?

3.- Purged
- Interminable
- Gin

2.- The book they found: Symbolism (Page 197)
- The book they found: Foreshadow (Page 197)

1.- Hes captured and is placed in a force labor camp.

Post number 6

pages 163-195

5.- Winston feels uneasy about Martin
- O'Brien wants out, but is talked back into it by Julia.
- Julia just wants everything to work out, no matter the cost.
- They found a book written by Ennabuel Goldstein.
- The book explains things like: Ware is peace, and Ignorance is strength.

4.- IT is a coincidence that everyone came together?
- Who would be considered the "leader" of the group?
-Why does O'Brien suddenly want out?
-Why is there not title to the book?

3.- Inconceivably
-Enterprise
-Denouncing

2.- "Oceania was at war with Eastasia": Conflict (Page 182)
- "The inscription on the title page ran...": Personification (Page 184)

1.-They find a book explaining the thoughts of the government.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Post number 5

Pages 131-163

5.- He tells Julia he's always thought he killed his parents

- These pages are just about him trying his best to remember his childhood past.

- He seems to be on a quest to learn about his parents.

- O'Brien and Winston are working together.

- Winston never lived the "finer" life, and hates it.

4.- Why is drinking so common and accepted?

- When will there be a rebellion?

- Why does the old man not give his name?

- What caused him to get caught?

3.- Tremulous

- Annihilated

- Voluptuously


2.- "Down with Big Brother" Conflict Man vs. Society

- "He had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone." Conflict Man vs. Man


1.- Hes trying to hide from his government.

Post number 4

Pages 98-130

5.- The thought-police aer thougt to be able to read your mind.
- Not recycling is unacceptible to his society.
- Every morning Winston has to get up and exersize.
- Winston is not in the best of health.
- Winston wishes very much to tkae down B-B

4.- How far out does the war spread?
- What is the rest of the world like?
- Why is it ok that children go to exucutions?
- How many poeple ahve died in order to keep B-B's sercrets?

3.- Deliberate
- Grimacing
- Inexorably

2.- "Freedom is slavery" Oxymoron
- "Ingnorance is Strength" Oxymoron

1.- Hes slowly starting to fall victom of the society around him.

post on 1984-- #3

Pages 65-97



5.-Winston knows that there was a past before Big Brother came into power.

-He knows that Big Brother is controlling people to worship him so they do not question their past.

-Big Brother is using Spies to do his every will.

-Almost all of the Spies were brain washed when they were just kids to believe B-B was a good thing.

-Winston is constantly "double-thinking"



4.-How did B-B come into power?

-Will the Parties ever ally once again?

-Why did one of the Parties break the alliance they had?

-Which Party was the first to break the alliance?



3.- Vindictiveness

-Ecstasy

-Obliged



2.-"then the sheep-faced melted into the figure"-- Personification

-"War is peace" Oxymoron



1.- Hes starting to meet other people, and getting somewhat involved in the government.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Post 2

Pages 33-64
5.-His parents were takin away when he was 10.
-His family was killed when he was young.
-Theres no way to tell what year it is.
-He knows he is going to get cought when hes writing.
-He hates Big Brother with everything that he has.

4.-Why did his mom and dad have to die for him to live?
-Will he ever see his younger sister again?
-Who exactly is Big Brther?
-How did Big Brother come into power?

3.-Avocating
-Polysyllabic
-Lucid

2.-"It was a lean Jewish Face"-Description
-Then the sheep-face melted into the figure" - Personification

1.-More about the society he lives in.

Blog number 1---1984

Page 1-32

5.-His whole life is being watched.

-Writing is against the law.

-He doesn't really like girls.

-There still is a from of religion.


-The setting of the story is in London.





4.-Will Winston ever have privacy?

-Who's narrating the story?

-Why does he always have random flash backs?

-Will Winston ever find the book?


3.- Unorthodoxy (Page 13)

-Mingled (Page 27)

- Conspiracies (Page 30)


2.- "tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian" - Allusions (Page 18)

- "tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian"- Simile.


1.-You get introduced to Winston's basic life