Chapter 5 part 2

Winston's friend, Syme has been evaporated.  To make sure Winston instincts were right he went to the notice board of the chess committee in where Syme was a member but  his name was not found as if he had never had existed.

Everyone was very busy for hate week preparations, stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, and more photographs faked. The anthem or the hate song was all made by drums and the telescreen was consistently showing it.  At the same time, rocket bombs were thrown and had killed a large amount of people such as the one that fell on the theater in Stepney, or in the playground were many children were blown to pieces. Winston's and Julia's conspire went on, they have met for six times in Mr. charrington's shop. Winston started talking about all the things that the party does such as, forged documenting, changing history according to their perspective, but Julia was actually falling asleep. This type of knowledge was already known by her, but she found them so boring that she did not mind what the party was doing with history. She was more concern about the present and future. Julia sees the past as something that does not affect her,  since the truth will never be found out, and something that's a waste talking about. In the other hand, Winston has been trying to find more about his past, and its an interesting topic for him. I believe that talking about the past is more interesting for Winston because he is older and half of his memories are about the past which he is trying to bring them back to decode some mysteries in his life. But Julia is a young girl, and she had her memories very clear so, for her there is no need to find out anything. She is more of a girl who looks forward at the present and future, to always find a way to live a happy life breaking the rules and never getting caught, that's her purpose in life. Winston sees life differently, he wants to know, more about how things came to what they are now, a controlled society by an imaginary man who no one knows if he actually exists. ( BIG BROTHER).

Chapter 4 part 2

While visiting  Mr. Charrington's shop Winston realizes that he could meet up with Julia on the little room above the store. Since Julia was busy with the hate week preparations, she was not able to meet with Winston, he felt like she was cheating on him. He even thought how great it would be if he had a family with Julia, here we see that he is drawn to have a serious relationships not knowing how Julia will respond to his request. Finally when Julia meets with Winston in the rented room, Julia offers him sugar, coffee, and bread, something not everyone from the party could eat, only the inner party members had access to this luxurious food. After showing him the food, she decided to surprise Winston by putting make up on. They stayed in the room for the whole evening. Julia, notices a paperweight and Winston says to her that its a passage to the past, he imagines living inside the paperweight with Julia eternally.

As we can see,  Mr. Charrington knows about Julia’s and Winston’s affair, which I believe it might be perilous since he might reported to the thought police. Winston, as a lonely man who almost forgot how it felt when someone gave him affection, he would start wanting Julia for himself which might turn their perfect relationship upside down by Winston becoming more of a controller. In this chapter we also know that Julia knows the song of the St. Clement’s Church, which is such a great coincidence, in that song there might a hidden clue to understand their past, everything before the revolution that neither Julia or Winston have not figured it out. The paperweight is also a prominent symbol, its the world Winston wants for his life, which is to always be beside his girlfriend Julia.

Chapter 3 Part 2

In this chapter we can see that Julia and Winston have develop a romantic relationship between them. They started to set some rules when they meet. They will have to meet in different places, if they were on the street they could only talk for 30 minutes, and  they had to have an intermittent conversation.  It was hard to plan their rendezvous since Winston worked for 60 hours and Julia worked even longer. So, they could not meet every single day, since it was hard to plan a schedule that was good for both of them.

In order to camouflage propitiously, Julia would:  attend lectures, distributed literature for Junior Anti- Sex League, prepared banners for Hate week, and did collecting for saving campaigns. Winston also decided to volunteer one evening every week for 4 hours in the part- time munition so, he could start having good qualities of a good citizen and to not avert any possible suspicion. Julia had a perfect party record even though she is ont 26 years old, the party has trusted to work at the pornography department which has the strictest confidentiality. Julia does not remember anything before the 60’s, all she remembered is that before the revolution her grandfather disappeared when she was 8 years old. She had her first love affair when she was 16 with a 60 year old man who rather commit suicide that getting arrested.

Winston also talked about his wife Katherine described her as “goodthinkful” which meant natural orthodox, incapable of bad thought. His wife believed in the Ingsoc principles and in Big brother, he believes that if she was there she would of had denounce him to the thought police. Winston is scare to get caught by the thought police, and he thinks of death but Julia full of life, makes him believe that the only way to live the fullest of life is by doing the contrary of what the party says.

In order to survive and have a good time, you had to have an infallible record, so the party can trust you,  this way you can break the rules after and be ecstatic. I believe the party doesn't let their citizens be jubilant because its easier for them to control them and always checking what they do, if everyone had freedom to do what they want they wouldn't be working for so much hours, they would start to have other mentalities that can overthrow the leader, Big brother.

Julia was so young when she had her first affair, she was not able to have a childhood which means that in her life there must be a empty space that looks for one day having a family.If she has a daughter she will take of her a lot because she wont want her daughter to experience that same thing as what she did.  Julia and Winston are completely different on how they see the chance of surviving, Julia is full of youth and wants to live her life to the fullest.I believe Winston’s self- esteem will grow now that he was a girlfriend, he would find a new purpose for living.

Chapter 2 Part 2

It was on the second of May when Winston and the girl from the fiction department got to meet in the country away from the city of London, where they could calmly talk without been surrounded by telescreens. Winston was fortunate since no patrols asked him for his passport or asked him questions. When he took the train, most of the passengers were proles who were going to the country to visit their family. When Winston met with the girl they got to know more about each other. For example, the girl’s name was Julia, she was 10 or 15 years younger than Winston. Even though Winston was 39 years old , he had varicose veins, had false teeth, Julia didn't really mind all his imperfections. Julia fell in love with him because she notice in his face that he was against THEM, referring  to the party. In this chapter we get to know that Julia buys in the black market, since she gave to Winston a chocolate that tasted different than the regular chocolates. She was also a troop-leader in the Spies, voluntary work three evenings a week for the Junior Anti-Sex Leagues. Julia was the type of girl who is very active in her society, she did all this to used it as a camouflage so, she won't be a target to be followed by the party. After work, and volunteering she was the opposite of a perfect citizen, she used coarseness language as rebellion, and did not followed any Ingsoc teachings.

An analogy between our society and the society of 1984 is that if we go out of the country or even away from your neighborhood is important to take your passport or identification because you never know when the patrols might ask for it. Another resemblance is that there are black markets just like in our society, here Julia bought a chocolate. I wonder what would happen if they caught Julia buying in the black market? of if the party members were allowed to buy it.

Julia is a very queer girl because she likes Winston even though she is younger, I wonder why she is not with a guy of her age and weather because of age difference they can only see each other in secret. She is also astute to make the party think that she is like a role model that the society should look up to, since she participates, volunteers in most of the party’s activities. In the next chapter, I hope to see more about Julia’s comportment when the party is not watching her.  I wonder if there are more people like her who all camouflaging because they don't believe in Big Brother.

Chapter 1 part 2

There is no chapter nine, instead there is chapter 1 part 2. In the other chapters we had seen that the girl from the fiction department has caught Winston’s eye, during the hate hour or when Winston was getting out of the shop but they never really talked to each other. In chapter 1 part 2, we finally see that the girl from the fiction department meets with Winston as a really casual occasion. One day Winston was walking when suddenly he sees that girl with a bandaged, she falls on the side of her injured,  Winston immediately goes after her to see if she is alright. The girl gave Winston a folded scrap of paper in his hand. He didn't have no clue what the paper said, only that it must have some kind of political meaning, or might even be a threat from the Thought Police. After he sled his work into the pneumatic tube he decided to open the scrap of paper, and it read “ I love you”. Since that incident Winston Was always thinking of how to approach to her, or else she might forget about him and move on. He sees that the only way they can meet was during lunch hours, at first there will be some interruptions by WInston friend, Parson. Then we see that the girl had not be seen for three days at the lunch hours, and Winston starts to worry and think that she must be avoiding him because she has changed her mind.

Winston visits the community center in where he eats his meal in the canteen, was part of solemn discussion, played two games of table tennis and stayed for an hour on lecture called              “ Ingsoc in relation to chess”. Ingsoc is the ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania. Ingsoc translated to “ English socialism”. Finally Winston  got the idea of how to approach to the girl, and that was by going to the cafeteria earlier than he usually does. Winston approached to the girl’s table and they clandestinely started talking:

‘What time do you leave work?’

‘Eighteen-thirty.’

‘Where can we meet?’

‘Victory Square, near the monument.’

‘It’s full of telescreens.’

‘It doesn’t matter if there’s a crowd.’

‘Any signal?’

‘No. Don’t come up to me until you see me among a lot

of people. And don’t look at me. Just keep somewhere near

Here they met as they planned and when they got there, they made another arrangement  for another meeting. The next appointment was on Sunday afternoon at Paddington Station but before they left they hold hands and parted away on their own direction.

I now understand why the girl from the fiction department appeared so many time in the other earlier chapter, she must had been looking at him since that time. I wonder why they both can’t meet together publicly and what would happen if the telescreen caught them? We can see that there is a community center in where people can have a fun time without thinking of work, so they can stay healthy by playing games such as table tennis. But the government teaching are everywhere and  it never rests, such as “ Ingsoc in relation to chess”. Is nice to see how this two people had the chance to meet and get to talk, but how can Winston say that he also likes her just by that note, and not even knowing her name, or her eye colour. I feel that in the next chapter we will see more about the relationship between the girl from the fiction department and Winston.