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1984 Book Report By: Claudia Yager 6th Hour C.P. English 11 Due: February 25, 20021.) Title: 1984 Published: Harcourt, Barc e, and Company, Inc. in 1949 Author: George Orwell Where book was acquired: Wittenberg Library: Wausau Library. 2.) What type of book: Fiction, told in First Person 3.) Characters: 1.) Winston Smith- Is a 39-year-old male, who lost his wife eleven years earlier, and his mother and sister a long while before that. He is unhappy with his home, and wants to rebel against Big Brother. 2.) Julia- Is a younger female, in her 20's, who falls in love with Winston. She is also unhappy with her home, and wants to rebel against Big Brother. 3.) O'Brien- Is a male in his late 30's who is a spy for Big Brother.

He follows up on what everyone does, and makes sure they don't break the law. He wants to catch Winston, and punish him. 4.) Parsons- Is a male in his early 30's, and also is Winston's neighbor, who is always worried about things, paranoia. He just wants to live his life, and not get caught by the thought police. 5.) Katherine- She was Winston's dead wife. All she ever wanted was a family, and to be loved, but because of this was vaporized because love was a crime.

4.) Two main conflicts: 1.) Winston vs. Society In this story, Winston believes that people should be able to be free to express their own emotions, and love one another. The Society, Big Brother, disagreed, and said it was against the law to do so. After breaking this law, Winston eventually gets caught, and brainwashed until he believes that Big Brother is right. 2.) Winston vs. Self Throughout this story, Winston has many encounters with himself, and his own problems. For example he thinks that he is the reason why his sister and mother died, or how he believes that he should be able to speak freely, and act freely. He eventually overcomes these things, but then gets caught and brainwashed to forget everything.

5.) Setting: Where: Oceania, a destroyed city in London. When: 19846.) Plot: Summary of Orwell's 1984 Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth. Ministry of Truth, is one of four Government buildings in destroyed London, once a province of Oceania. His job is to correct printed articles in line with the Party's orders. The Ministry and records department jobs are to rewrite history to make the party look good. They get a break because of the 2-minute hate, which is a two-minute period where they loathe the enemy.

During this time, three countries are at war, Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia. Oceania is where Winston lives, and it is run by the party whose leader is Big Brother. Winston had a wife, Katherine, which he has not seen in eleven years. He resents the intrusion of the Party into the sex lives of its members, and also realizes the discouragement of sexual enjoyment, that makes any love affair with a party member impossible.

Winston is sick of his life in the ruined city and decides to keep a diary, which is very illegal. He also felt his feelings begin to hate Emmanuel Goldstein, leader of the enemy party. At a political gathering, with many other people, he also spots O'Brien, a party leader whose eyes he sees a bit of political sympathy and a young girl, who he dislikes. Mrs. Parsons, his neighbor, is a follower of party doctrine, and a fellow employee at the ministry. Her children are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling on traitors, including parents.

Before long, Winston starts to have dreams about his mother and sister. He can barely remember their disappearance and feels responsible for there deaths. He also has another dream where he is in the perfect countryside with the girl he had noticed earlier, and didn't like. He wakes up by the, telling him to do his exercises. He thinks about how much power the Party has over everyone. Winston meets Syme, a philologist, for lunch.

Syme explains parts about Newspeak. Winston starts to think that Syme will be vaporized because he is to smart. He is the only one who has not been taken over by the propaganda that is always being broadcast. What the party does, is take a person, and brainwash them, making them believe only what the party wants them to believe. He then notices the same girl from the other day starring at him and thinks she is the thought police.

Soon He meets Mr. Charrington, who owns a little shop. Mr. Charrington shows him a room upstairs and Winston dreams of renting it, because it has no. At work he runs into the dark haired girl again, in the hallway. She falls, and while he is lifting her up she slips him a note. He reads it at his desk and is amazed to find that it simple states, I love you. Eager and excited to meet with her again, he waits seven days, until they eat together in the cafeteria.

They decide to meet in Victory Square. When meeting there, they arrange another meeting the next Sunday afternoon. At the designated meeting place, in the countryside outside London, he finally learns her name. Julia explains that she considers herself rebellious to the party. She has had sex with many other non-members. Suddenly he walks into the scene exactly like his dream.

She removes her clothes and they have sex. He believes that sexual desire may be the force that destroys the party. Following their secret meeting they meet each other occasionally. They go months without seeing each other, but whenever they can, they are together. She believes that she must pretend to cooperate with the party and secretly break the rules whenever possible.

Winston thinks that rebellion is the best answer. Together they discuss past girl and boyfriends and how the party controls them. Eventually Winston does rent the room above the antique store, and realizes the foolishness of what he and Julia are doing. She brings him coffee and real sugar, which she manages to steal, and real old-fashioned make-up. Many preparations for the upcoming hate week keep Winston, Julia and the others very busy. Winston discovers that his friend Syme has disappeared and all records of him have been altered.

Meanwhile, Julia and Winston discuss the hopelessness of their private rebellion, and that it cannot go on forever. He is disappointed that Julie does not reject propaganda from the party and her theory that the party sends bombs on itself. One day at work, O'Brien gives Winston his address and asked him to stop by so that he can lend him an advance copy of the Newspeak dictionary. Winston thinks this is a conspiracy against the party and is excited, but thinks it will end in torture and death. Winston takes Julia to the O'Brien apartment with him. He wonders if O'Brien is also a rebel because he finds him in front of the, hard at work.

Over toast he explains to Winston what is required of the secret rebel brotherhood. They accept the terms of the membership, except that they will never see each other ever again. O'Brien promises to be given a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein's book, secretly in the future. After a long week, of sorting through millions of documents, changing them to prove that the Party wasn't at war with Eurasia, but East Asia. While in the room with Julia, a voice issues from behind the picture on the wall. It was a hidden, which instructed them not to move.

Armed guards rush them to the Thought Police, who had been observing them all along. Winston and Julia are violently separated. Mr. Charrington enters the room without his disguise, looking much younger. He was a member of the thought police. Winston was then held prisoner in a large, crowded cell at the Ministry of Love. Parsons is a prisoner as well.

His own daughter turned him in for thought crime. O'Brien enters the cell with a guard and Winston realizes he has been betrayed by him. O'Brien was a member of the Inner Party. He orders the guard to strike Winston who feels a great deal of pain on his elbow. Winston is tortured both physically and mentally for an unknown length of time. He keeps getting interrogated with beatings and questions until he confesses to many crimes.

O'Brien reveals that he has been watching Winston for seven years. He wants total rehab from Winston, and explains why the party can never be defeated. He has been informed that Julia easily betrayed him and has now been released totally rehabilitated. He continued to be tortured, but comforts himself by thinking about how he never betrayed Julia. After much more torturing, Winston confesses to everything. Before long Winston in brainwashed and released.

He is sitting under a tree at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. He drinks very heavily now, and remembers meeting Julia. He remembers them talking, and how they betrayed each other. The party would not allow them to see each other, but neither felt anything for each other anymore. Soon the comes on, and Eurasia is once again the enemy. His heart fills with love for Big Brother.

7.) Two things I learned from this book: 1.) One thing I learned, was that 2.) 8.) Two main themes: 1.) Someone has always been there to tell you what to do in life. As a young child, you were told to behave properly and not to eat too many sweets. As you grew older and older, it seemed as if the responsibilities became greater and greater in number. Even as an adult, there was always an officious boss telling you what to do. There was always some higher force that bound your actions. Authority was the major theme in the novel 1984.

Everyone had to follow rules, and order, no matter what the cost. They were being watched everywhere they went, and had to follow orders. If you failed to do so, like Winston, you would be tortured and hurt in many ways until you followed their orders. In 1984, we get a sense of a greater authority in Big Brother. Although we never come to know if Big Brother actually exists, the power and authority that this idol holds over the people is unimaginable. To even hold on to what makes you human - emotions and the ability to speak freely - was considered a crime against Big Brother.

2.) Another theme is dictatorship. This is a story about dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the Allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. Winston, the main character, is an ordinary man of 39 who is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, a place where history and the truth is rewritten to fit the party's beliefs.

The facts -- significant and insignificant are rewritten, they thoroughly destroy the records of the past, and they print up new, up to-date editions of old newspapers and books Their goal is to make people forget everything- facts, words, dead people, the names of places. People guilty of crimes (free thought) are erased from having ever existed. The Ministry of Truth allowed the controlling powers to have control over its citizens using memory-erasing techniques (cognitive psychology). Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very upset with the government of Oceania, where Big Brother, a larger than life figure, controls the people. Big Brother is the figurehead of a government that has total control.