Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Summarizer Chapter 7

In this chapter Winston see's women rioting in the street over a saucepan, as Winston is seeing this his begins to think that if a small group of women could this much choas over a saucepan then what could a huge group of people do if they opposed the government. Winston wonders if anyone else has ever thought about revolting against the government and if they did could they join together. Winston thinks that even if there were people that would chose to revolt, how would they organize, or how would they even find each other.
Later Winston tries to recall his childhood and remember what life was before the revolution, in a textbook that Winston borrows it describes London as a miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and no roof over there head. But Winston know that the history books have been changed, Winston lones for a chance to remember is actual childhood.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Literary Luminary Chapters 1-2

"His eyes refocused on the page. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing , as though be automatic action. And it was no longer the same cramped awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals-

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

over and over again, filling half a page."

I choose this passage, because I thought this was a great example of foreshadowing. Showing that Winston clearly has a deep hatred for the government and that he will most likely turn against them.

Literary Luminary