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 January 12, 2011 Element Analysis

Allusion: Golden Country Orwell uses this allusion of a golden country in Winston dreams. There is no party or big brother looking over him or instructing him of how to act. he just feels free. It is to be described as an "old rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot track wandering across it and a molehole here and there. In the hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair." i also like Orwell imagery that was implemented in these couple of sentences, with the implementation of personification and similes.

When i think of Orwell's Golden Coast it makes me think of Narnia in the book "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Its similar to when the kids hop into the wardrobe and are place into the majestic land. Where they can forget and not feel worried about the war that was going on during that time. I'm mean there was another war of some sorts there but not one that they had to always be on the look out



January 13, 2011  IQ: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." Throwing something out into the garbage is getting rid of something. if you think about it once you you place that item or object in the garbage and then take your garbage out to the street for pickup you will never see it again. When something is useless you throw it out. That is what the party is trying to do with some of these words. they say um we don't really need the antonyms or synonyms of some words lets just put them on the curb and wait for them to be picked up.

January 18, 2011 Element Analysis

Irony: Yellow Note I n the passage he says "the tune that they were playing changed, and the tone of the music changed too. There came into it-but it was something hard to describe. It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note; in his mind Winston called it a yellow note. And then the voice from the telescreen was singing:". When you think of yellow you think of sun shine and happiness, not cracked and braying.

In the Great Gatsby in the beginning they talk about Daisy being pure. They go on by mentioning pure as white and white represents clean and purity. Daisy was far from that though. How could a person so pure hit her husband's mistress and drive off. Then her supposedly true love is blamed for for her death and is murder because of it. So yeah white really represents her as a person.



January 20, 2011  IQ: "you will always be in the dark." Our vision best symbolizes this quote because without our vision we will be in the dark. With our eyes they give us the ability to see our surrounding. Our sight is one of our key senses, if not our most important one. Without our vision we aren't able to see the appearances of our follow people. There are to ways you can look at this without your vision you can't judge people by the what their frontal appearance is but who they are on the inside. On the other hand our vision important thing in our day to day life. Without your vision "you will always be in the dark".



January 24, 2011 Element Analysis

Symbolism: Shattered Glass Paperweight The shattered glass paperweight is very symbolic to this section, if not the novel. In the book it states pg 223 "There was another crash. Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearthstone. The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!". The coral i feel is Julia, the coral was protected by this sphere of glass. Julia sphere of glass is Winston and him protecting her in the apartment that they are staying in. Once that Paperweight broke and released and could no longer protect the coral, is just like when the party broke into the apartment and took Winston and Julia. Winston could no longer protect Julia.

This in a different way reminds me of The Catcher in the Rye, when Holden is trying to protect Phoebe from the harsh cruel world that surrounds them. The "paperweight" in the Catcher in the Rye is when Phoebe sees F*CK YOU written in red on the wall of the school and wonders what this word mean. Holden gets so upset that he goes to the office and says why is there F*CK YOU written on the wall because he can no long protect Phoebe's innocents any longer. When he was the one who "shattered the sphere" and took her innocents.

January 25, 2011  IQ: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." I feel us as people so what can relate to this quote in a way. We as human beings let the past control our future. Whatever we might have made a mistake or have done something that we are not happy about, we just keep on dwelling on the past and can't continue on a road that awaits us. Our present controls our past also. To keep this from happening we have to think of the present time in our lives now. We as people need to stop mistakes and action that don't look good in the eyes of others in the present day, so that our past doesn't become a road less traveled in our future.

January 26, 2011  IQ: "The object of power is power." I fell that this quote represents Hitler as a whole. All Hitler want was complete power and would do anything that stood in his way, even if that meant eliminating a whole race. Hitler wanted everyone to be perfect. In his eyes that meant blonde hair and blue eyes. Like oceanian,he too was the leader of a Party, the Nazis Party. Similar to the Party, Hitler pretty much brainwashed his fellow Germans into believing that this was the right thing to do. Hitler elected himself as a dictator and had over 17 million Nazis followers. He was expanding his "so called" empire that was Germany lost during WWI. He came so close of having complete power, but was still so far from it.

January 27, 2011 Element Analysis   Motif: The RATS   The Rats were a dominate motif in this novel. I especially though that it was presented more in this section then any other. When Winston is taken to room 101 he fears for the worst. O'Brien says that it is where your worst personal dream come to life and that it is different from everyones else's. O'Brien said " Do you remember, the moment of panic that used to occur in your dreams? There was a wall of blackness in front of you, roaring sound in your ears. There was something terrible on the other side of the wall. You knew that you knew what it was, but you dared not drag it onto the open. It was the rats that were on the other side of the wall.". The whole time Winston has not wanted to confront the wall of darkness because he has feared it for so long. One part that was interesting was when Winston said that mothers couldn't leave there babies alone for more than five minutes, in the poor sections of town because they were afraid of the rats attacking the babies. In all real honesty isn't that what Winston did to his little sister. When his mom left he took her piece of chocolate away from her, just like a rat. Also when the rats were squealing from the cage, isn't that what Winston pretty much did when he said "Do it to Julia and not me". So in this situation is Winston the rat and the wall of darkness the things that he can't own up too? This makes me think of Harry Potter in some way. When Harry's thoughts are being controlled by Lord Voldemort. Voldemort is the wall of darkness that Harry is afraid to confront. Harry is trapped i feel inside the wall and can get out until he concords his fear. Of not letting someone control him in every thought that he produces. He finally concords his fears and is able to control his own thoughts.