Reading Blog - 1984 Chapters 5-7

This week for 2 hours, I continued reading 1984 by George Orwell, from chapter 5 to 7. In chapter 5, we learn about the language of Oceania, which is Newspeak. In this chapter, Winston has lunch with Syme, who is responsible for the dictionary of Newspeak. Syme said that the government will destroy any words that could resemble rebelilous or independent. However, Winston belives that someday Syme is going to be killed because he is so inteligent. As we hit chapter 6, we see that the Party doesn't want any kinds of pleasure such as sex. Lastly in chapter 7, we see that Winston is think of a revolution and he wrote it down in his diary. He believes that not even a legendary rebellion force called the Brotherhood can't defeat the Party. In his diary, he believes that the proles which are the 85% of the population must come together and fight against the party. Later on, he also sees a person named O'Brien who he believes that they share similar passion for the rebellion. Through these chapters I'm foreshadowing that Winston will try to rebel and has the desire to do so.

Reading Blog - 1984 Chapters 1-4

This week for 2 hours, I started reading a book called 1984 by George Orwell. I wanted to read this book because, I knew that George Orwell was a very reknown man, and also my dad suggested this book because he thought this book was really good for me to read. I read from first book, chapter 1 to chapter 4. The first chapters were about a man named Winston Smith, who is a government official, but his one of the lowest ranked ones. His job is to change the past history to the way that the government wants it to be. Winston is part of the Truth Ministry. There is also a ministry called the Peace Ministry which messages that war is peace. Anyways, the government leader is Big Brother and rules over them. There is a statement that says that 'Big Brother is Watching You'. In the second chapter, we learn that the government has manipulated the young minds of children because we see that the children of the Person's has told on the police, that Winston has done a thought crime. Even the paretns were afraid of their children. As we go on to the third chapter, the readers learn little bit about Winston's little past, but not alot. We see that his got no physical proof such as pictures/letters to see recollect his memory, but Winston feels that it was his fault of his mother's disappearnce. In chapter 4 we basically see Winston doing his job as destroying past documents and making them in to new ones, for example, the Big Brother can never be wrong. From reading just the 4 first chapters, I see that this state that winston is living in is very robotic. Everything has to be done in some kind of way and it is done in that way. I also feel that through Winston's eyes, he barely has any emotions

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This song is by Blue Oyster Cult, and basically this means don't fear death, which Stefano wasn't afraid of, so this lyrics match the short story.

A guy named Daniel walked in to a mall. He was looking for something that he desperately wanted. However, Daniel couldn't find it anywhere. He soon became very mad and angry. His face was becoming red, angered with fury. Suddenly, a little young girl gave him a banana. It was very funny to see Daniel chew on a banana, he looked very gentle and happy.