1984 By George Orwell

r quite a while before he started writing in it, the first thing he writes about is his visit to the cinema, where he watched the usual war film.
             It seems a little pathetic that the highlight of his day is to keep a diary documenting his mundane life and the reason he is doing this is to rebel against society, but it does not seem very rebelious at all. But he probably knows that he will eventually be caught, but that shows courage that he is willing to take the risk.
             During the two minutes in which everyone chanted "B-B!" signifying Big Brother. Winston chanted with the them,but he did not like it, and a man called O'Brien saw his facial expression, Winston knew that O'Brien thought the same as him. this shows that there are others with his views against Big Brother but they have to stay in the dark so they don't get in trouble.
             At the end of the day Winston was writing in his book, and then when he looked down at it he found that he had written "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" five times in large capital letters.He did this because his subniminal thoughts had surfaced through the book. He had just commited a Thought Crime, so that ment that the Thought Police would come and arrest him in the night. He gets a knock on the Door, it seems to be the thought police, but when he opens it he finds that it is only a neighbor needing help with her plumbing.
             At Minitrue Winston's job was to change history, he changed the predictions that Big Brother had made so that it seemed like the predictions correspond with the present. I think that the this changing of newspaper article so that it seems that Big Brother are always right, this demonstrates a sort of communist society were the media is sencored, I think that Orwell was basing this book on the drepression and the Communist Russia. There was a public hanging once a month, which was a source of entertainment for...

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