Chapter 1 part 3

Julia and Winston are separated after they were caught by the thought police In Mr.Charrington's shop. Winston was thrown into a cell, but we don't know where Julia is taken yet in this chapter. Winston loses sense of time, he doesn't know if its morning, afternoon, or evening. He is surrounded by four telescreens which is constantly viewing the unexpected movements. Here food is not given to the prisoners and Winston was compelled to take bread crumbs out of his pocket, but was not able to do so since the telescreen announced him to take his hands out of his pockets. A  prole woman came into the cell and started throwing off, she had the last name of “smith” and Winston thought for a moment that she could be his mother. Julia is barely mentioned in this chapter, only that Winston will never betray her although, he doesn't think of her as much, as if he had never loved her.

Winston aims for a razor blade to be sent to him to commit suicide and end the terror that is about to begin. In the cell he meets with some acquaintances such as Parson, and Ampleforth. Parson was denounced by his children but he was not angry with them, he was actually proud of them. Parson believes that he is guilty because he doesn't think that the party would arrest an innocent men. I believe that Parson only believes this way because he admires Big Brother, but the truth is that innocent people do get arrested, and they can't go against big brother’s word because what he says is a fact. The other person that Winston meets is Ampleforth, whose crime was leaving the word “ God” in a Rudyard Kipling translation. Here we know that Big brother goes against religion, and doesn't want religion to be promoted. I believe that Big brother doesn't want religion in his party because he wants to get all the spotlight that religion gets, he wants to be seen as a divine, and adulated by the people and never to be doubt. A skull face man came into the cell and kept saying that he was going to do anything to not go to room 101. The officer didn't changed his mind, the skull man had to be taken to room 101. He even said that he will rather see his wife and his 3 children to get their throats cut off in front of him, but not to take him to room 101. That was the most unpredictable event I had read in this chapter because usually in movies we see that the person would sacrifice for his family but this time is different, he will sacrifice his family to save himself. This tells us that room 101 is the most horrid place a human being can be in; the reason why no one wants to ever go there.

When O'Brien came in into the cell, Winston knew that his hope to get the razor blade was gone. A the end, guard smashes Winston’s elbow, and Winston thinks that “ no one can become a hero in the face of physical pain because it is too much to endure”. I believe that usually heroes are seen as heroes because they endure pain, but we understand that Winston is not that type of person, and would rather not be seen as a hero just to save himself.