"The eyes of the chinless man kept flitting toward the skull-faced man, the turning guiltily away, then being dragged back by an irresistible attraction. Presently he began to fidget in his seat. At last he stood up, waddled clumsily across the cell, dug down into the pocket of his overalls, and, with an abashed air, held out a grimy piece of bread to the skull-faced man." Pg. 235
I found this passage significant because even though the chinless man is also suffering he decides to try to share food with the skull-faced man even though he will be punished.
"Do you know what they heard me saying?" He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity. "'Down with Big Brother!' Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems"... Pg 233
I picked this passage because it led me to wander if Parsons had been snooping around Winstons flat, maybe Parsons read Winston's journal entry, thus leading to Winston's capture?-Dun Dun Dunnn - Chad R.
At one moment he felt certain that it was broad daylight outside, and at the next equally certain that it was pitch darkness. In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O'Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion. pg.229
I picked this passage because we now finally find out where the place with no darkness is that Winston had been talking about. It is significant because all along he knew that he and O'Brien were going to end up here. -Shannon F.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off let me die . Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" Pg. 236-237
This passage was significant because it shows how fearful the prisoners are of Room 101. They would go through anything or do anything just to avoid Room 101.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off let me die . Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" Pg. 236-237
This passage was significant because it shows how fearful the prisoners are of Room 101. They would go through anything or do anything just to avoid Room 101.
"It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listed at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway." pg. 233
This passage is important because it shows how far people go in order to satisfy the Party even if it means sacrificing family.
"Do you know what got ahold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit- never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all." Pg. 233
I chose this passage because it really demonstrates how serious the the thought police are. It also shows how if you aren't careful or always on guard the thought police can catch you; even if you thinking it in your sleep.
"There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddles, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes." pg 227
--- I think this passage is important because it shows how ridiculous Winston and Julia's arrest was. They are surrounded by real criminals who had done horrible things while all Winston and Julia did was "think" the wrong way.
"It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?
The children are so overcome with the idea of the Party that they turned in their parents.
"He hardly thought of Julia. he could not fix his mind on her. He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic. He felt no love for her,and he hardly even wondered what was happening to her. He thought oftener of O'Brien, with a flickering hope." Page 228-229
I chose this passage because it shows what really happens to Winston in the Ministry of Love. Winston cared for Julia so much that he refused to be separated from her when O'Brien asked. (It was the only thing he said no to) Yet put him in the ministry of love and Julia isn't that important anymore.
"It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it." Pg 232 -Mary O'Connell
"She might, thought Winston, be his mother. She was about the right age and physique, and it was probable that people changed somewhat after twenty years in a forced-labor camp." p228
Winston used to be haunted by thoughts of what happened to his mother, and if this had happened earlier he would have been very interested, but it seems like he doesn't give it a second thought now that he is in the Ministry of Love.
" 'Down with Big Brother!' Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I'm glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I'm going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? 'Thank you,' I'm going to say, 'thank you for saving me before it was too late' " Pg. 233
I chose this passage because it shows how other Party members are completely oblivious to Big Brother and would thank them for catching them with a thoughtcrime.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
This is significant because it shows that the prisoners would rather do anything else than go to room 101.
"Of Course I"m guilty!" cried Parsons with a servile glance at the tele screen. "You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?" Page 233 Some people don't realize how bad the Party is even after they've been arrested. Anna Yung
"The boots were approaching again. The door opened. O'Brien came in... 'They've got you too!' he cried. 'They got me a long time ago,' said O'Brien witha mild, almost regretful irony.. 'You knew this, Winston' said O'Brien. 'Don't deceive yourself. You did know it-you have always known it.'"
I picked this passage because we learn that O'Brien, the man that Winston had put so much trust into, had betrayed him as well.
Tanner Knigge "You are thinking," he said, 'that since we intend to destroy you utterly, so that nothing that you say or do can make the smallest difference--in that case, why do we go to the trouble of interrogating you first? That is what you were thinking, was it not?"
I chose this passage because it shows how smart they really are. It also shows how much control they have over everyone in the novel.
Tanner Knigge "You are thinking," he said, 'that since we intend to destroy you utterly, so that nothing that you say or do can make the smallest difference--in that case, why do we go to the trouble of interrogating you first? That is what you were thinking, was it not?"
I chose this passage because it shows how smart they really are. It also shows how much control they have over everyone in the novel.
More prisoners came and went mysteriously. One, a woman was consigned to "Room 101" and Winston noticed, seemed to shrivel and turn a different color when she heard the words.
I found this passage significant, because even though the ministry of love is supposedly secret about the death of people. They still know when and where they are going to die with the room number 101
At one moment he felt certain that it was broad daylight outside, and at the next equally certain that it was pitch darkness. In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O'Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion.
wife "Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" I picked this quote because that is just how low the man has stooped due to his torture he has had.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
I really liked this passage because of how it shows how much the ministry will do to you if you do wrong to big brother. That something so terrible i man would rather sacrifice his family then having to deal with what the government would give them.
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"The eyes of the chinless man kept flitting toward the skull-faced man, the turning guiltily away, then being dragged back by an irresistible attraction. Presently he began to fidget in his seat. At last he stood up, waddled clumsily across the cell, dug down into the pocket of his overalls, and, with an abashed air, held out a grimy piece of bread to the skull-faced man."
Pg. 235
I found this passage significant because even though the chinless man is also suffering he decides to try to share food with the skull-faced man even though he will be punished.
"Do you know what they heard me saying?" He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity. "'Down with Big Brother!' Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems"...
Pg 233
I picked this passage because it led me to wander if Parsons had been snooping around Winstons flat, maybe Parsons read Winston's journal entry, thus leading to Winston's capture?-Dun Dun Dunnn
- Chad R.
At one moment he felt certain that it was broad daylight outside, and at the next equally certain that it was pitch darkness. In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O'Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion. pg.229
I picked this passage because we now finally find out where the place with no darkness is that Winston had been talking about. It is significant because all along he knew that he and O'Brien were going to end up here.
-Shannon F.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off let me die . Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
Pg. 236-237
This passage was significant because it shows how fearful the prisoners are of Room 101. They would go through anything or do anything just to avoid Room 101.
-Maggie F.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off let me die . Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
Pg. 236-237
This passage was significant because it shows how fearful the prisoners are of Room 101. They would go through anything or do anything just to avoid Room 101.
-Maggie F.
"It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listed at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway."
pg. 233
This passage is important because it shows how far people go in order to satisfy the Party even if it means sacrificing family.
- Abby D.
"Do you know what got ahold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit- never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all." Pg. 233
I chose this passage because it really demonstrates how serious the the thought police are. It also shows how if you aren't careful or always on guard the thought police can catch you; even if you thinking it in your sleep.
-Marissa A.
"There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddles, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes." pg 227
--- I think this passage is important because it shows how ridiculous Winston and Julia's arrest was. They are surrounded by real criminals who had done horrible things while all Winston and Julia did was "think" the wrong way.
"Who denounced you?" said Winston.
"It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?
The children are so overcome with the idea of the Party that they turned in their parents.
"He hardly thought of Julia. he could not fix his mind on her. He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic. He felt no love for her,and he hardly even wondered what was happening to her. He thought oftener of O'Brien, with a flickering hope." Page 228-229
I chose this passage because it shows what really happens to Winston in the Ministry of Love. Winston cared for Julia so much that he refused to be separated from her when O'Brien asked. (It was the only thing he said no to) Yet put him in the ministry of love and Julia isn't that important anymore.
"It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it." Pg 232
-Mary O'Connell
"She might, thought Winston, be his mother. She was about the right age and physique, and it was probable that people changed somewhat after twenty years in a forced-labor camp." p228
Winston used to be haunted by thoughts of what happened to his mother, and if this had happened earlier he would have been very interested, but it seems like he doesn't give it a second thought now that he is in the Ministry of Love.
Bailey B.
" 'Down with Big Brother!' Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I'm glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I'm going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? 'Thank you,' I'm going to say, 'thank you for saving me before it was too late' " Pg. 233
I chose this passage because it shows how other Party members are completely oblivious to Big Brother and would thank them for catching them with a thoughtcrime.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
This is significant because it shows that the prisoners would rather do anything else than go to room 101.
"Of Course I"m guilty!" cried Parsons with a servile glance at the tele screen. "You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?"
Page 233
Some people don't realize how bad the Party is even after they've been arrested.
Anna Yung
"The boots were approaching again. The door opened. O'Brien came in... 'They've got you too!' he cried. 'They got me a long time ago,' said O'Brien witha mild, almost regretful irony.. 'You knew this, Winston' said O'Brien. 'Don't deceive yourself. You did know it-you have always known it.'"
I picked this passage because we learn that O'Brien, the man that Winston had put so much trust into, had betrayed him as well.
Tanner Knigge
"You are thinking," he said, 'that since we intend to destroy you utterly, so that nothing that you say or do can make the smallest difference--in that case, why do we go to the trouble of interrogating you first? That is what you were thinking, was it not?"
I chose this passage because it shows how smart they really are. It also shows how much control they have over everyone in the novel.
Tanner Knigge
"You are thinking," he said, 'that since we intend to destroy you utterly, so that nothing that you say or do can make the smallest difference--in that case, why do we go to the trouble of interrogating you first? That is what you were thinking, was it not?"
I chose this passage because it shows how smart they really are. It also shows how much control they have over everyone in the novel.
More prisoners came and went mysteriously. One, a woman was consigned to "Room 101" and Winston noticed, seemed to shrivel and turn a different color when she heard the words.
I found this passage significant, because even though the ministry of love is supposedly secret about the death of people. They still know when and where they are going to die with the room number 101
Landon H
At one moment he felt certain that it was broad daylight outside, and at the next equally certain that it was pitch darkness. In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O'Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion.
-Rose T.
I chose this passage because it tells us where the place with no darkness, that we have been anticipating, is.
-Rose T.
I told you that if we met again it would be here.
I chose this because all of us trusted O'Brien and thought the place without darkness would be a safe place. Turns out it was misleading and not safe.
Madeline B.
wife "Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
I picked this quote because that is just how low the man has stooped due to his torture he has had.
Clare F
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"
I really liked this passage because of how it shows how much the ministry will do to you if you do wrong to big brother. That something so terrible i man would rather sacrifice his family then having to deal with what the government would give them.
Raff N
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