Chapter 6,7,8

I don't recall much of what I read in chapter 6 because I read it almost a week ago and forgot to write down my thoughts. I remember Winston was writing in his journal about a dream he had in which he slept with a prostitute and how it reoccurred him as a nightmare.  Winston is not able to sleep with prostitutes or any of that sort of stuff because in the middle to upper-class. I can see that Winston is really starting to commit some thought crimes and has to be careful to not get caught by the  thought police.

Chapter  7 was Kindof a blur to me because it really jumped around with Winston thoughts and was tough to follow. Chapter 8 was a long chapter and it included Winston going over to the other side of the cities in which the proles  resided. Winston is taken some major risks when he goes into the prole bars and talks about the old man about what happened before revolution. I think that the dark-haired woman that Winston saw is trying to communicate with Winston that I think she is going to somehow play a role in going against the government with Winston. Also, when he visited the general store, where he bought his diary and met the owner of the store, he is really interested in the upstairs room. I think that that he's going to rent that room above the store at some point and use that to be meeting place for the revolution against government, just as Goldstein had a meeting place for the people who tried to revolt against government back then. 

Chapter 5

So what I got to chapter 5 was basically Winston and his coworkers are always being watched and they never Know if someone spying on them or not. Winston is committing a lot of thought crimes and I'm thinking that it's going to catch up to him at some point in the book. When Mr. Parsons was talking about his children being spies and about the girl using a trumpet to hear through different walls and doors two different rooms , I thought to myself that Winston is going to get caught by one of those kids and be accused of thought crime. Syme is it interesting and very smart character, but Winston thinks that he's too smart and that he's going to be vaporized at some point, but I think that they will eventually work together and somehow revolt against the government. 

Chapters 3 & 4

Throughout chapter 3, all I could think about was how that Winston grew up post-WWII. Winston mentions phrases such as giant bombs and surprising warfare in the text. It also mentions England and Britain existing and how London was still London like it is in the present. With the book being written in the late 40s, after WWII, it seems like it is portraying what the world would be if the world was run by one leader. Chapter 4 was a little difficult to understand, as it went into great detail as of the history of Oceania . What I got out of chapter 4 was that Winston's job was to destroy any unwanted history of Big Brother and his ideas which turned out being wrong. If BB predicted something to happen in the future which turned out being wrong, Winston would re-write the history in the text so that BB predicted events that happened. This method would erase all history of the government being wrong and change it so the government was right. It practically was used to brainwash the proles that the government is always right and you were not to question it or BB.

Chapters 1 & 2

Before I picked up 1984 and started to read it, I anticipated the book to be about a year when the world was going to end. After researching and taking notes about the book during class, I found out that the book was more about a new world in which the government has complete control and surveillance over the citizens. The first chapters of the book were a little confusing as to what was going on. It was hard to get a grip on who the main character, Winston Smith, really was. Once I read through the first 2 chapters, I got a better grasp as to where the book is leading to. I'm thinking that Winston is going to revolt against the government because in the first 2 chapters it already mentions him writing in his diary about the negatives of the government, which is illegal in the first place and could get caught by the "Thought Police". It will be interesting to see where this book goes, and I hope I continue to stay interested while reading it.