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1984 Blog #10

5 Things You Understand:
1. How Winston feels about Julia now
2. How the jail changed Winstons way of thinking
3. Why Winston loves Big Brother
4. What Winston thinks about his family
5. How Winstons life has changed

4 Questions You Have:
1. How does Winston still smell rats?
2. What happened to Julia?
3. Is he ever going to see O'Brien again?
4. Will he continue to rebel?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 269 malleable- adaptable or tractable
2. pg 300 frank- direct and unreserved in speech
3. pg 297- booty- something that is seized by violence and robbery

2 Literary Elements:
1. pg 269 "The party is immortal" methaphor
2. pg. 271 "his bones were as narrow as a skeltons" simile

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston has a new love for Big Brother and the Party.

1984 Blog #9

5 Things You Understand:
1. What pain means to Winston
2. What the 4 emotions are in the world
3. What self-abasement is
4. Why Winston betrayed Julia
5. What Winston's worse nightmare is

4 Questions You Have:
1. What is going to happen to Julia?
2. Why is O'Brien so cruel?
3. Why is Winston so scared of rats?
4. How will Winston's life be after his imprisonment?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 266 bludgeon- a short, heavy club with one end weighted
2. pg.266- fallacy- deceptive, misleading, or false nature
3. pg. 266 faint- lacking courage; cowardly

2 Literary Elements:
1. "the earth is as old as we are..." simile pg. 265
2. "whatever he said, the swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon" simile pg.266

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston betrays Julia in order to free himself.

1984 Blog #8

5 Things You Understand:
1. What the Partys motives are
2. What Winstons condition
3. How Winston is strong
4. Why Winston can't stop hating the party
5. Why the torture isnt as severe as before

4 Questions You Have:
1. How is Julia doing?
2. Is Julia still alive?
3. Is Winston going to hold out?
4. How is the story going to end?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 260 prang To damage by colliding with
2. pg. 262 lunatic- an insane person
3. pg 264 submission- agreement between parties involved in a dispute

2 Literary Elements:
1. "As long as you live, it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind" pg. 260 meathphor
2. "Oceania is the world" pg. 265 methphor

1 Summary Sentence:
1. These pages were about the mental and physical state of Winston.

1984 Blog #7

5 Things You Understand:
1. What the place with no darkness is
2. Why Winston wants a razorblade
3. Who O'Brien really is
4. Why the Brotherhood can't help him
5. What happened to Winstons elbow

4 Questions You Have:
1. Will Winston betray Julia?
2. Is the wman Winston's mother?
3. Is Julia going to betray Winston?
4. How long is he going to be in jail for?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 232 chap -a fellow; man or boy
2. pg. 233 obscenity- an obscene word or expression
3. pg. 234- posteriors- The buttocks

2 Literary Elements:
1. pg. 233 "he sank his voice like a person...." simile
2. pg 239 "he was lying on something that felt like a camp bed" simile

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston is tortured in jail.

1984 Blog #6

5 Things You Understand:
1. Why Winston was so tired
2. What the book Winston was reading was about
3. How Oceania was made
4. What "War is Peace" means
5. Who Mr.Carrington really is?

4 Questions You Have:
1. Is O'Brien trustworty?
2. What is going to happen to Winston and Julia?
3. Are they going to be in jail?
4. Are they ever gonna be free?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 182 syntax-the rules or patterns so studied
2. pg. 182 canteen-a box or chest for cutlery and other table utensils
3. pg. 180 lurdily-gruesome; horrible

2 Literary Elements:
1. pg. 181 "The orator....still grabbing the neck of the microphone.." personfication
2. pg. 181 "his body had the weekness of jelly" simile

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Julia and Winston are caught and captured because Mr. Carrington is apart of the thought police.

1984 Blog #5

5 Things You Understand:
1. Why Winston rented a room
2. Why Winston has been frsutrated lately
3. Why Winston got scared of the rat
4. Why Winston wants Katehrine to die
5. Why the town is excited for Hate Week

4 Questions You Have:
1. Why is bread and sugar a luxury?
2. Why is Winston so negative?
3. Why is he meeting with O'Brien if he knows his fate?
4. Is Winston going to die?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 141 emanation-to send forth
2. pg. 141 melancholy- a gloomy state of mind
3. pg. 142 eccentricity- irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd

2 Literary Elements:
1. pg 140-141 "...a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhod" simile
2. pg. 141 " her voice flaoted upward with the sweet summer air" personfication

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston knows his fate and that it maybe difficult to change.

1984 Blog #4

5 Things You Understand:
1. The slogan " War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght.
2. Party members are breaking the law.
3. Why Winston almost pushed Katherine off a cliff.
4. Where Julia and Winston are going
5. What Julia wants out of rebelling

4 Questions You Have:
1. What does the "I love you" note mean?
2. Who is this girl?
3. What will happen if they get caught?
4. Is Julia a spy?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 105 solitary- by itself; alone
2. pg 112 malignant- very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect
3. pg. 114 farthing- coin formerly used in Great Britain worth one fourth of a penny.

2 Literary Elements:
1. pg. 106 "She spoke as though her heart were fluttering" simile
2. pg 107 "his voice was trembling" personification

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston finds a partner in whom he can trust in and undermine the party with.

1984 Blog #3

5 Things You Understand:
1. Why Winston and his wife are divorced
2. What Winston thought of the prostitute
3. Who Katerine is
4. Consorting with prostitutes was a rule you couldn't break
5. Why Winston was with a prositiute

4 Questions You Have:
1. Where is Katerine now?
2. Will Winston get captured?
3. Why is London the way it is?
4. What really happened in London?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. pg. 65 proles-the class of workers
2. pg 65 debauchery- excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
3. pg 65 enema- the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement

2 Literary Elements:
1. "..like having an anema." pg 65 simile
2. "like embracing a jointed wooden image..."pg 67

1 Summary Sentence:
1. In these pages, the author explains the life of proles

1984 Blog #2

5 Things You Understand:
1. This society is kind of like communism
2. Why Winston hated the "hip" excerise
3. The party destroyed from peoples memories
4. Perople in the Records Department didn't talk about their jobs
5. Winston wants to rebel

4 Questions You Have:
1. Who are the Physical Jerks?
2. Why is Oceania at war?
3. How is Winston?
4. What is the Oceanic government hiding?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. furtive pg. 34 sly
2. gyrating pg 34 to move in a circle
3. annihilated pg 34 to destroy

2 Literary Elements:
1. It was merely the subsitution of one piece of nonsence for another metaphor pg. 41
2. People in Oceania were as secretive as.... pg 42

1 Summary Sentence:
1. Winston must have self control or he will get caught.