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__** Jan 12th III-IV Element Analysis **__ **For the element analysis i chose the symbolism of the "memory-holes." The holes are described as " when one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of war air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building (pages 37-38)." It demonstrates how the party controls the past which inevitably controls the present. Since no one is allowed to keep physical records documenting the past prevents people from challenging the government’s actions and authority. Winston hardly remembers a time before the Party came to power or any other type of government available to humanity itself. **



__** Jan. 13th V-VI IQ **__ "Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to." (page 59)

In spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Day I picked this quote because of oppression present in the Big Brother society. Although as we can tell in the novel so far nothing has dealt with racism but more along the lines of social class. Big Brother and the government "top dogs" obviously have more resources then the middle class (winston, parsons, symes) and of course the poles. As explained later poles aren't even allowed to have certain products as due by their class. Winston discusses his "time" with a prostitute and explains how poor they are living and working in dirty basements and saying "some could even be purchased for a bottle of gin, which the proles were not supposed to drink." So an object that would best symbolize this theme of "oppression and underprivileged-ness" of the poles is a dirty well. A well is often times explained as a life source since it gives us water, but even though it carries the source of health, being a disgusting dirty one shows the difference in social class. By Big Brother allowing the poles to be within this Oceania "community" he demeans them by giving them horrific measures which would surely disease them then help them sustain.



__** Jan. 18th Element Analysis **__

//The Paperweight //

It has become nearly impossible for people to question the Party’s power in the present when they accept what the Party tells them about the past. Winston being a worker that deals with contructing the lies that people believe, struggles to recover his own memories and formulate a larger picture of what has happened to the world. Winston buys a paperweight in an antique store in the pole district that symbolizes his attempt to reconnect with the past. Since it is found in an antique store one can assume that they are not products of present oceania so it is a one of a kind item from our history; it is a piece of life before the party. The weight is for the paper and Winston uses paper to write down his dreams and thought of the past and present. Therefore his dreams and thoughts are being weighed down and alike the coral inside- never to be realeased. But I think it also stands for the relationship between Winston and Julia. The flimsy state of the paperweight is symbolic in the fact that the world Winston created for himself and Julia can be shattered at any moment.

**__Jan. 20th IQ __** //"The end was contained in the beginning"// //(pg 159)//

Rise the tide is turning jump over the waves swim through the watery caves Rise the tide is turning

When Winston receives O'Brian's address he is ecstatic but deep down inside he harbors a lingering thought of whats next to happen. He begins to realize that when he began his writing he began his death. Winston states he went from words to actions and is now feeling the sense of a grave coming. Since his childhood was filled with pain over"losing" his family to the party and soon he will be losing his own life to the party. That's why i chose to write a poem where its all a big cycle. Alike the waves that are everlasting so is the party's power; Winston started off under their siege and he now begins to feel as if this tampering will O'Brian will be the end of him, still under the siege of the party.

Jan. 24th Element Analysis (foreshadow)


 * Throughout Book 2 X and Book 3 I, Orwell uses foreshadowing to help the reader anticipate whats to come next. The one that stood out mostly to me was the blatant foreshadow of "room 101". He makes it so obvious that its hard not to pick up on the fact that Winston will soon be going there. He begins with Winston oddly remembering a conversation between two inner party woman who were vaguely talking about room one-oh-one (pg. 228). Next Orwell has Winston come in contact with many other persons that join him in his holding room and are eventually taken to room 101 - Ampleforth the poet, a woman who "seemed to shrivel and turn a different color when she heard the words (pg. 234), and the starving man who Winston tried to give bread to. **

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 * Since Orwell uses obvious forshadowing of room 101 i choose to show an clear foreshadow in the show How I Met Your Mother (yay! :D) **
 * This is an episode where Lily and Marshall after a few years of marriage are ready to have kids. They are each getting tested because it seems as if lily just cant get pregnant. The audience believes that the bad news will be that they aren't able to have kids but its actually that Marshall's father passed away. Throughout the episode it counts down the time towards the bad news through numbers on random objects. The full episode starts around number 54 but in the clip below you'll see it starts at 6 (the doctors folder) and ends at 1 (the taxi number light). **

**__Jan. 27th IQ __**

//"The party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them (pg. 253)." //

The theme of converting someone your enemy instead of destroying reminds me of early America where the puritans/pilgrims tried to Christianize the Indians. The goal of the mission was to teach the Indians manners and customs then practiced by Christian whites. One of the first tribes to be converted were the Pawnees of Nebraska. Many tribes like the Pawnee's welcomed the assitance of whites because they could provide them with more service resources, but none had the intention of changing their customs of lifestyle. Some believed that the Pawnees could not be bullied into becoming farmers and that their conversion to Christianity would require many years. However, newer members of the community -- were less willing to wait and were willing to use forceful methods "to speed" the Indians along to Christianity. The end result was that while some of the Pawnees had expressed polite interest in Christianity, there was not the slightest hint that anyone was going to convert. They were equally steadfast in retaining their traditional ways.Equally even though o'brien is telling winston what to believe he is steadfast in his idea of the truth, no amount of torture or mind manipulation-so far- has changed his permanent idea of reality.

Alike the puritans big brother and the party believe that the way to keep their power and defeat their enemy is not to out rightfully kill them, because then they would have martyrs who will get people to think and acknowledge others ways to live, but to convert them into their own way of lifestyle to live amongst us.



__**Jan. 28th IQ **__

//"Power is not a means; it is an end." // //(pg. 263) //

Immediately When i read this quote in Book III: Section III i thought of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb i think perfectly symbolizes the theme of "power can destroy us all." The atomic bomb was created as a war weapon to end WWII. The atomic bomb has only been detonated twice, both against japan by the united states of America. This is what they say truly ended the WWII. Others were scared of our power so they backed out of combat. The bomb destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives of innocents in Japan and destroyed entire cities. Too much power was given to its creators and others have began to create their own, leading to a possible nuclear war that would be a cockfight for power and nothing else.

= = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><- Before and After photo graph of Nagasaki, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Japan after the Nuclear Bomb was detonated in WWII.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nuclear bomb "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.->

<span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">I think what Orwell meant with this quote was that power leads to destruction. That if everyone had power it would lead to the end of the world. Power is nothing but a self gain and the ideals it holds destroys. Alike the atomic bomb which we still have scares for today, from the 60's with the Cuban Missle Crisis to today's war between South and North Korea. The idea of Nuclear bombs is to have a deadly weapon to scare off others, but now that everyone has a chance to gain this weapon it had become a nuisance and unnecessary to the world.


 * __<span style="color: #820782; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Jan. 29th Element Analysis __**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">i know this has been said before but when I read the final chapters, i truly began to see a correlation between 1984 and "the giver" by Lois Lowry.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Orwell used the motif of "power of government" to lay out the plans to rule Oceania. He had O'Brien recite to Winston what the future would be like- "We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man and between woman and woman...There will be no loyalty except toward the party. There will be no love, except toward Big Brother....(pg. 267)." He explains within this passage of how by hindering relationships through government restriction, ultimately there will be no bond between humans causing them to take their emotions elsewhere. Alike in "the giver" the small child is chosen to hold all of the emotions inside himself so that the bleak world around him will remain unharmed. Their government chooses to let one person hold all the emotions so that everyone is controlled, just like big brother uses his own process to get all emotions to be about the government and nothing else.