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Thursday, November 8, 2012
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.
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