1984's ending

In 1984 after Winston is out of the Ministry of Love, Winston has a better job than he had before. Winston was in the Chestnut Tree café where he has never ending gin since the waiters keep refilling Winston’s cup without him saying anything. While he is in there he sees outside the window is Julia who also has bigger hips than she did before. Winston and Julia talked about how they betrayed each other and how Winston and Julia don’t feel the same anymore since what happened. When Winston went back into the café moments later there was a trumpet Noise by the silkscreen. Its an announcement that Oceania has a victory since Africa has given up. Winston was cheering and started crying and it simple stated that he loved Big brother. I didn't really expect this ending but it happened with another book.
This book I once read which was called The Fear, which is about people over the 16 and older are plagued with a sickness that can kill the person or they stay sick but turn into a zombie-like creature and feed on the kids that survive. Well I love this book and its characters, and the plot is so good. But the ending was just fulfilling since all that happened in the end was that my favorite characters died and the book ended that one of the characters named a group of sickos (that is what the characters called them) and he called them The Fear. This ending left me happy that I actually finished the book but I wanted a better ending that would satisfy me as I wait for the next book.
Both of these book endings left me unfilled and anger. But I can see where the authors where going to end the book this way. George Orwell wanted to show how can a person’s mind can change when you put them in a situation that can break down their mind. It was the ending that you wouldn’t expect from this type of story at all. I still wonder what was Orwell’s real intention when he wrote the ending for the book.

Hunger Games and 1984

Ok ok. I have been thinking a lot about the Hunger Games since I finished 1984. Do you want to know why.... ok ok I'll tell you. Because they both have to deal with dystopia and people wanting to stop it. So I am going to compare the two. Ok so we'll Hunger games is about this girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 in a place that once was the United States. It now it is called Panem. Every year each year that have to send in a girl and a boy to the fight to death and to go back to their district as victors. This game is called The Hunger Games ( hence the title) and Katniss is thrown in the games with a boy named Peeta Mallark and have to survive without the capital changing them. I love this book/ now movie series. So they (the hunger games and 1984) have a purpose to fight. 1984 has Big Brother and The Hunger Games has The capital and President Snow. While in both books they both face difficulties that put them in danger but they somehow come back in the end as themselves or as a totally different person than they were before. In these worlds one has a family to leave and to take care of and one only has himself. But they differences. Like Katniss didn't automatically hate President Snow, she started hating him after her win in the games. But Winston has only to care for himself. The Hunger games has action in it while the 1984 has more detailed tortue that makes you wince for the characters. Down below will be a Hunger Games Trailer (even though the movie is already out) i feel that it explains it more than i did.

This song that someone made that was so beautifully down in Peeta's POV. It's called "Girl On Fire"

Fears

By the time in 1984 Part 2 Winston’s fear is revealed to the readers and his fear is rats. It isn't the rats we know today. These rats are more vicious, they attack people. Especially little kids if they are unattended to. The party members used this fear against him. In the Ministry of love Winston was sent to Room 101. Winston was sent here because it was the final thing to “fix” him. Winston was strapped to a chair that he couldn't move at all. Even his head was strapped. It is revealed that Room 101 is place for people’s fears to be recognize and see if the person can do anything about their fear, conquer it or submit to it. O'Brien gathered rats into a cage just for Winston. He was slowly moving it to Winston’s face and the cage had a part where you can put a human face into it. Winston was desperately trying to get out of the seat and tried to escape but he couldn't  Winston couldn't take it anymore, the rats were so close to his face that he told them “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me!” Winston was so scared that he wanted to do anything just to get his fear away from him. I would probably do the same thing.
I am terribly scared of heights. I am so scared like if you put me on the roof of the tallest building I would start screaming and crying and probably start feeling dizzy just from it. That’s is how scared I am of it. I just feel like I won’t ever touch the ground again. If I stand on that building I can see the view of the city or where I am. But it goes down hill when I look down. I would do anything just to get off or let anyone be here expect me. I would be stiff as a rock if I had to walk out there. But if someone said that I had to do something just to get off, I’ll probably do it.
I agree with Winston but I also disagree with him as well. I know that he is really scared of rats but I don’t think it was right to give them to Julia. He could have least felt regret what he did to Julia but it seemed like he didn't even think about it after it was done. I think he could have handled it differently but facing your own fears can make a person do things that they thought they were capable of doing.

Heroes

In 1984 Winston and Julia are arrested and are soon later in the Ministry of Love where they are tortured due to committing thought crime. Julia and Winston are forced to tell what they know to the party members that work there. While Winston is thinking about if O’Brien will send him the razor blade there is a knocking at Winston’s cell door and Winston can hear the footsteps approach and O’Brien enters. Winston is soon to realize that O’Brien is the person behind his torment. While Winston is on the floor due to a hit to Winston’s elbow there is a quote and it says “In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes” What does this quote mean today, and how does this describe the “heroes” today?
This quote means that when we are in immense pain, that is so deep that no one can save that person in pain. In the world today being a hero means to save everyone that is in trouble no matter what the cost. But what if the hero saved someone but that person was in so much pain that the hero couldn’t do that for them. They couldn’t save that person from how they are feeling deep inside. Look at Winston in this book, no one tried to save Winston. Winston was being beaten and scared to death that he did things that he might regret later on or not care about at all.
Now in our current world there are many heroes who just popped up. A couple of weeks ago the east coast had a Hurricane that later turned into a Superstorm. That storm  was called “Hurricane Sandy”. This storm ruined homes, killed people, and left some lost in the east coasts which consisted of New York, New Jersey and other places. Many heroes popped out like firefighters  and paramedics and sometimes ordinary people who have the heart to do what they think is right. Even though these people aren’t superheroes like Superman they can save other people’s lives just by trying their best.
Winston didn’t get any help when he was in the Ministry of Love when he was getting tortured to death. In Winston’s time there weren’t that many heroes to fly in and save him or other people. It was more like finding it the way out alone. Now, with the people from Hurricane Sandy are safe those people still probably in pain from lost loved ones or that tragic experience happened to them and if they will ever recover. But heroes do exist, they just have to be found
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/the-heroes-of-hurricane-sandy_n_2044253.html

Finished book

I recently finished the book 1984 by George Orwell and i couldn't be happier. It is a very interesting book but the beginning had a very slow start but once it hit part 2 it became the book i didn't want to put down. But Winston angered me in Part 3. It happened when he was sent into Room 101 ( i finally know what it is know) and i know he is afraid of rats but he didn't have to give it to Julia. The girl that loved him and he said that he never betray her but he did. He made me throw my book across my room. But the ending was the worst part for me because Winston isn't himself anymore. The Ministry of Love did some good brainwashing on him because he actually loves Big Brother when he hated his guts in the beginning. This book has shown me how fast you can change a how a person once was to a totally different person. All they used was their fear and but their brain in the way the party wants to work it.This book was good to see how someone from the 1940s (i think) thought how the world will be in 1984. 1984 is a good book even though i had many confusing moments, funny, shocking, and really good ones as well  But i think that everyone needs to read this book at least once. Here is a picture of the book since i talked about it so much.

What's Your breaking point?

In 1984 after Winston and Julia were arrested by the Thought Police they were taken to the Ministry of Love where they were tortured. Winston meets many other prisoners as well like Mr. Parsons,(Winston’s neighbor) who was turned in by his own daughter and a women who’s name is also Smith. While Winston is also being tortured, Winston stays by his rights and not letting them run over him. Later, its revealed that O’Brien is the person who is in charge of Winston’s torture. One day O’Brien tells Winston to look himself in a 3-way mirror and when Winston looks, he is shaking from fright. Winston looked like a skeleton-thing. Winston was skin and bones from lack of food and water for no one knows how long Winston’s been there. His face was sunken in and his knees was bigger than his thighs. After this Winston was broken down and Winston gave up and followed what O’Brien said. Everyone has a breaking point and I am going to explain mine.
I remember this one time when I was in the 2nd grade and my whole class everyday have to do a bell ringer where we tell what we did the following day. I used to write the same thing everyday until my teacher gave me back my latest bell ringer. Expecting an “A” again I walked up like I have no care in the world. But when I got my paper back there was a big red “F” on my paper. I felt like crying since it was the first F I have ever gotten in my whole life for the first time. My teacher was nice to tell me that I need to write something different for tomorrow and I nodded my head determinedly. The next day I saw a nice A on my bell ringer again which made me so happy.
My breaking point is my grades in my classes since they are very important to me and another one is when people annoy me and it goes to far. When someone reaches their breaking point they might want to hit something, cry, be angry, or simply just give up and accept whatever comes there way. This is how Winston reacted in 1984 and can see the change he had in the beginning of the book to this point of the book. I never knew that Winston could be so broken.

1984 Literary Reflection for Chap.9 Part 2

In 1984 Part 2 chapter 9 Winston gets the book that O’Brien talked about in O’Brien’s house but couldn’t read it due to the chaos that happened during Hate Week because Oceania switched enemies from Eurasia to Eastasia. Winston couldn’t read it for 6 days. As he starts reading “The Theory and Practice of Collectival Oligarchism” with a peaceful environment without any silkscreen or hidden microphone anywhere. In the book it addresses why “Ignorance is Strength” and “War is Peace”. But when the author talks about the reason why “War is Peace” reminds me of our world today.
In the United Stated we are currently in war with the Middle East or mostly Iran. The United States had been in war with them that I don’t even know why we are in a war in the first place. The war won’t even end soon because United States doesn’t want to give up and neither does Iran. Its just a back and forth fighting that it won’t end until we run out of people to use  In the book that Winston read talked about how “war” is losing its meaning and is to ensure peace in the world. Also the book says that if the world has peace it would be permanent just as a permanent war. This will only happen if the whole world is closed off to one another.
The book that Winston read by Emmanuel Goldstein can be used for the world now. This book foreshadow and told us that the world can go through many years but the people in it will never change



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