Tuesday 29 October 2013

David, Stewart, Will, Julia, Peter, Lit Circle 2

Discussion Director
Questions
1) What do you think about Winsston's Lunch with Syme?
-Syme thinks newspeak will change the world and allow more simplier conversations excluding the thought of freedom.

2) Do you think Winston's dreams will occur in the future?
-Yes because all his dreams are all very related tto real life and George Orwell is using foreshadowing to add suspense and thrill to the story.

3) Do you think newspeak will eliminate thoughtcrime? And why?
- No because a majority people don't always think about what they are saying or writing.

4) What do you think about the dark haired girl?
- She seems she could be a criminal instead of a spy.

Vocabulary Reporter
Word: Proclamation
Sentence from book: "However it was not the proclamation of a military victory thistine..."
Definition: A wor declaration or public statement.
My excellent sentence: Dave's Proclamation of freedom in South Africa was amazing.

Word: Illiterate
Sentence from book: "... the neat handwriting of the illiterate"
Definition: Unable to read or write.
My excellent sentence: In 1984 nearly everyone is illiterate.

Word: Heretics
Sentence from book: "He believed in the principles of Ingsoc... he hated heretics..."
Definition: Being without religion.
My excellent sentence: Burn the heretic at a stah.

Word: Elimination
Sentence from book: "Just once Winston caught a phrase - 'complete and final elimination of goldstein"
Definition: Taking something from someplace.
My excellent sentence: Eliminating food from one's diet

Word: Thoughtcrime
Sentence from book: "In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible."
Definition: Thinking thoughts of rebellion or anything deered unworthy by Big Brother.
My excellent sentence: I hope thoughtcrime is never going to be a real thing in Canada.

Word: Facecrime
Sentence from book: "There was even a word for it in Newspeak facecrime it was called."
Definition: Letting your face show emotion.
My excellent sentence: The punishment for facecrime is death.


Summarizer's Form
In chapters 4, 5, and 6, we see how Winston has the job of destroying data and articles with speakwrite. Winston has lunch with Syme, he explains the concept of newspeak to him. Winston believes Syme is at the risk of being vaporized due to his intelligence. Winston feels like he is being watched and upon looking up, he sees a dark haired girl who he fears is a party agent.

Passage Master
1) Last paragraph of page 50.
a) In this passage, Winston is realizing the fact that he just created an imaginary person and made him real to everyone’s past history.
b) It shows how easily we can be filled with false information and how people can be tricked.
c) Just don't believe or do what someone says because they may be using you to benefit themselves.

2) "Its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
a) Syme is convinced that Newspeak is the language we should be using and how making language so simple will help people.
b) Proves that characters in the story have been brainwashed into thinking the government is helping them.
c) Other countries in the world are limiting what people can find on the internet and making them less aware of the world around them.

Connector Form
1) When Winston is writing in his diary and remembering his wife and how humiliating it was to have sex with her.
2) Winston was forced to marry her and he did not want to have sex with her but she wanted to have a baby. He's writing in his diary about a dream he had with some old lady and remembering Katherine. She had no personality and was smart as a brick.
3) He has sex with her and she just lies there; she just submits. This takes all the joy out of the act. This is exactly what the government wants to eliminate any thought of freedom. He hated everything about her but the worst part was the sex. He could just bear her without it. She was rigid and pushed him away even when she pulled him closer somehow.
4) Memories of a book- Geisher
5) When Sayuri/Chiyo loses her virginity, she does the exact same thing as Katherine. She just lies there with her arms by her side without moving making it really awkward.


Lit Circles. Blog Post #2 (Rebekah, Darcy, Lexy, Even)

Summary: (Lexy)

Winston goes to his job in the records section of the Ministry of Truth, where he destroys work with "speakwrite." Citizens of airstrip one are forced to live with less food than normal, however, people believe its okay. Winston invents a made up person named Ogilvy. Winston has lunch with a man named Syme, he tells him that newspeak aims to limit the range of thought. Because of Symes intelligence, Winston believes he will be vaporized one day. The husband of the women in chapter two, comes into the canteen and apologizes for his childrens behaviour. The Ministry of Plenty announces an increase in production over the loudspeakers. Winston feels like he is being watched, looks up and sees the dark haired girl starring at him. He worries she is a party agent. He records in his diary his last sexual encounter. Winston's former wife Catherine hated sex, and since she never got pregnant they separated.

Discussion Director: (Rebekah)

1. Why do you think that Julia, the dark haired girl seems to always be around Winston? Do you think she is a spy?
Winston thinks that she could be a member of the Thought Police or that she could be a spy. It also could just be a coincidence, and that she actually is no threat to Winston at all.

2. You would think that a language should grow in order to communicate better, but do you think that it is ironic that Syme believes that language evolves by destroying words?
Yes, its ironic. Syme says: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

3. Syme believes that by the year 2050 not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now. What are your thoughts?
In the future yes, people will probably not be able to understand their conversation because every concept needed will be expressed by one word. All knowledge of Oldspeak could possibly disappear.

4. "It was necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened." pg. 41 What are your thoughts on this?
The Party makes sure Big Brother is never wrong. Old documents will be destroyed and there will be no proof that he ever stated differently.

Passage Master: (Even)

Passage One:
"One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized." Pg. 56

 a) Winston thought that Syme will be vaporized one day, because he is too smart, even though Syme is loyal to the Party.

b) This shows Winston's opinion, that smart people are not liked by the party. It is sort of satire to the society that others do not like smart people.

c) Curiousity kills the cat: somebody knows best, died fast.

Passage Two:
"It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party." Pg. 63

a) Winston was thinking during his conversation with Mr. Parsons and Mr Parson is included in the kind of "beetle-like type of person he describes.

b) The Party likes this kind of people. They are loyal to the Party,and they do not think too much,and they always do what the Party wants them to do.

c) Loyalty, thoughtless and government.

Connector: (Darcy)

1. Where is the event in the book?
Chapter V page 61 (bottom)

2. What is the background of the event?
Winston is at lunch with his friend Syme and they are discussing how Syme is re-writing the dictionary.

3. What happens in the event?
An announcement from the Ministry of Plenty interrupted their chat and told everyone that the chocolate ration had been changed to 20g a day.

4. What does this remind you of in history or contemporary times?
This event of having to ration food reminds me of The Great Depression that followed WW2. During The Great Depression no one had enough money to buy a lot of food so they had to ration small amounts of food and saver what they had for periods of time because there was no way of getting more food.

5. What is your evidence
The evidence I have for this is from what I learnt about the Great Depression in Social Studies 11.

6. What lesson or opinion should we form based on this book/real world connection?
The opinion we should base off this is that we are all so fortunate for what we have and we should never take the things we have for granted because some day we might not have those things 


   
 

Monday 28 October 2013

Lit Circles - Blog Post #2 (Meghan, Nav, Tiantian, Jenelle, Nicole & Andrew)

Summary - Nicole
Winston re-writes documents at his job in the ministry of truth.  He makes up a character called Comrade Ogilvy who is a good citizen, rather then a past citizen named Comrade Withers.  Also Airstrip one is giving citizens less food but teaching them to be grateful for it, which they are.  He then makes it so Withers does no longer exist, because of what Big Brother said was wrong.  This change was made so Big Brother did not appear wrong.  Later Winston has lunch with Syme.  Syme tells him that newspeak is supposed to limit the range of thought.  Winston thinks Syme will get vaporized.  Parsons apologizes to Winston for hate week, but is proud of his children.  Speakers announce that there is an increase in production, however Winston deems this as false, even though everyone else is happy.  That night Winston writes about his last "love moment" with a prostitute.  His wife is revealed to have hated it, so when they did not have children, they separated.  He is then said that he wants another sexual encounter.

Discussion Questions - Andrew
1. What do you think about Winston's lunch with Syme? -  Winston's lunch with Syme was awkward.  Although they socially are "comrades", they don't like each other.  Shows how difficult socializing is in this world.
2. What do you think about the dark haired girl? - She is a party worker, secretly against.  When she looked at Winston maybe she suspected him of thought crime.
3. Will newspeak delete thought crime? - That is the goal of newspeak but there may always be thought crime because the government will always need to punish for intimidation.
4. Do you think Winston's dreams will come true? - If he can talk to her they may but that would be serious thought crime.

Passage Master(s) - Jenelle & Meghan
Meghan - "Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system." (67)
a) Winston speaks regarding how if you let your emotions show through your face, the thought police will likely catch you.
b) Its troubling and important because it shows how little freedom there is in Winston's world, and how even the smallest break in your mannerism can give you away as an imposter.
c) It shows how we can hide whatever we want inside our heads but as soon as we let it show in our actions, they are secret no more.
Jenelle - "...It was not even forgery. It  was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.  Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that's contained indirectly." (43)
a) This passage is one of Winston's thoughts about his own job of rewriting, or rectifying the news and other literature if it conflicts with actual events or things non-relative to Big Brother.
b) The Passage shows importance because it displays their lack of knowledge for their own history.  No one in Oceania knows how they became the way they did except for some lies they think to be true.  Everything Big Brother tells society could be completely false yet they perceive it as the truth.  The stories that Winston rewrites are even further from the truth than the original yet it will be on record in their history forever.
c) This passage exemplifies the relevance of our history.  Knowing what has happened before helps to prevent corruption and dystopian in the future, which Oceania has created.

Word Reporter - TianTian
1. imbecility - instance/point of weakness; feebleness or stupidity
Significance: the citizens have limited thoughts/speech and are monitored by the thought police which brings weakness and no wider thought.
2. indoctrinate - to instruct in a doctrine principle of ideology with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
Significance: political regime ideas are being instructed to their citizens.
3. solemnity - solemn; grave/mirthless speech, tone or mood.
Significance: the tone in which the government speaks in is very manipulative.

Connector - Nav
1. Where is the events in the book? - Winston writes in his diary and remembers his significant other and their relationship  and feelings towards each other.
2. What is the background of the events? - Katherine does not have much of a personality and is boring.  They were forced to marry each other.  She constantly pushes him away from her and the only time she wants him is when she wants to try and have a baby.  This thought happens when he is writing in his diary about a dream and suddenly remembers Katherine.
3. What happens in the event? - When he tries to have sex with her she puts no effort and just lays there.  She only wants to have a baby and not do it for fun, which is exactly what the government thrives for.
4. What does this remind you of in history? - It reminds me of arranged marriages.
5. What is your reason for your answer in number 4? - This reminds me of arranged marriages because they are forced and not based on true love just like Winston's relationship with Katherine. They really have nothing in common, and do not enjoy each others company.

Thursday 24 October 2013

Stewart,Will,Julia,David, and Peter's group for oct.22

Summary: Winston has become superstitious of everyone including children, due to the fact that he has been writing in the journal, committing thoughtcrime. He is scared of his neighbors and their kids. It turns out as well, that Winston is severely out of shape. He has come to hate his job, working for Minitrue "correcting" history.

Discussion Questions:
1) What is the purpose of the 2 minute hate and how does it work?
-The purpose of the 2 minute hate is to target the hate of people to an unknown enemy. In this case Goldstien.
2) What do you believe will happen between Winston and the Junior member of the anti-sex league?
-The group believed that the Junior Memeber of the Anitisex league will end up being a secret spy for the thought police, and will get Winston killed.

Passage: "Why can't we go and see the hanging?" roared the boy...

Words:
1) Orthodoxy:
-adherence to accepted norms, more specifically to creeds especially in religion
-we chose this word because it is significant to the story because everyone must be orthodox
2) Doublethink:
-thought marked acceptance of gross contradictions/falsehoods
-falls into "B" vocabulary of Newspeak
3) Consequences:
-something that naturally/logically follows from an action or condition
-everyone in the novel 1984 is terrified of the consequences from acting against Big Brother

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Lit Circles - Blog Post #1 (Meghan, Nav, Tiantian, Jenelle, Nicole & Andrew)

Summary - Tiantian
The protagonist Winston Smith, a 39 year old malnourished looking government worker, returns to his apartment for his break. He lives in a shabby apartment, similar to those of many other "party workers" in the area called "Airstrip One" (what we know as England). The party Winston work's for is a totalitarian government symbolized by "Big Brother", a face used to intimidate and control the citizens of Airstrip One. While on his break, Winston decides to write in his journal, which would be a "thoughtcrime" (a crime against the party) but luckily, in his apartment, Winston has an area that is hidden from the surveilance "telescreens" that watch all actions. Winston begins daydreaming about his past and a significant event that happened during the daily "Two Minutes of Hate" (a time where comrades express their hate towards "Goldstein" the political enemy of Big Brother), when suddenly realizes he has written "Down With Big Brother" in his journal multiple times. He becomes frightened that a thoughtpolice may realize this and is startled by a knock at the door. Although it is just his neighbour asking for help with some broken plumbing, his neighbour's children scare him by suspecting that he is a Thoughtcriminal.

Discussion Questions - Meghan
1. How do you think people would act today if we added a "Two Minutes of Hate" into our daily routine? - Might relieve stress and anger, but also might cause the anger to continue outside the two minutes. We almost have it already, in things such as youtube comments etc.
2. How does the lack of personal relationships in this society affect the characters' actions? - People don't get the chance to learn how to interact with others properly. People feel alone constantly, don't know ways to communicate freely. However, they don't know anything else so it's  normal for them to be distant from others.

Passage Master(s) - Nicole & Andrew
"The past was dead, the future was unimaginable" (28)
a) This quote comes up when Winston is thinking about how he really feels about the government and when he wonders if any other human being is on his side.
b) This passage explains very deeply the conditions of the time and it's unpredictable ways. Because in Winston's country they remove all history it becomes "dead" in a sense and this is troubling because it can not be used to predict the future.
c) This quote can apply to our lives currently because many of us as grade 12 students find the future after highschool "unimaginable" and are at a stage where the past cannot help us make our decisions.

Word Reporter - Nav
1. meagreness - lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy
Significance: The sentence in which this word is used describes Winston with his "meagreness" which tells us a lot about the quality of life that Winstons and others citizens of Airstrip One have.
2. strident - (of a sound) loud and harsh
Significance: The sentence in which this word is used refers to the music that is played through the telescreens to represent the party, which shows us that the government itself is harsh and wants to capture the attention of all citizens to make sure they listen and obey.
3. ramifications - a complex or unwelcome consequence of an action or event
Significance: This word is used to describes the many rooms under one of the government buildings that correspond with the 3000 rooms above ground, which tells us that the party is a very complicated and large group which may also be hiding something.

Connector - Jenelle
The connection found was between the advance in technology that Winston has experienced in his lifetime and what we have experienced in ours. Similarily in both cases, technology has started to be used for surveillence and control over peoples' lives. In the novel, there are "telescreens" (like TVs) that can also watch over every action took within its sight and "thought police" that will arrest you for having thoughts against the government party. In our case the government and the NSA of the United States use things such as google, telephones, the internet etc to watch over it's population and monitor the communications that happens. Both societies have created a sense of fear among its people by using technology as a form of control.






Tuesday 22 October 2013

1984 Literature Circle Role

Summary: Alec

Chapter 1
The main character is introduced, his name is Winston Smith and he is a 39 year old man living in London. We learn about "The Party", a political group that spies on civilians at all times and executes them for wrong-doings. Winston works as an editor in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth. He begins to keep a diary, which may be punished by death. 


Chapter 2
The party has banned love, and all men must live alone. Also, there are no private possessions as the party owns everything. Winston writes in his diary which he keeps hidden from the party.

Chapter 3
Winston dreams of his dead mom, dad, and sister. He thinks back to how things were before the war, then he realizes he can't prove anything as there aren't any records.

Discussion Director: Angele 

Questions: 
1. Why do you think there are so many Big-Brother posters?
Answers from the group: due to propaganda.

2. Why do you think journaling is illegal?
Answers from the group:  Because the records are changed when the party thinks that the information is incorrect, therefore the journals would be incorrect.

Passage Master: Jenna / Jesse

"He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like saint sabastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax." 

A. Winston was imaging this during the 2 minute hate. This passage is describing what Winston wants to do to this lady beside him during the 2 minute hate.

B. This passage is interesting because Winston seems like a nice, calm, gentle guy but the 2 minute hate seems to change him into a monster.

"You're a traitor!" yelled the boy. "You're a thought criminal! You're a Eurasian spy! I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines!".

A. Winston's neighbor's son says this to him after he fixes their sink. It describes obviously what the boy is feeling against Winston.

B. This passage is also interesting because the reader knows Winston has broken the "thought" rules but how does this boy know?

C. I have falsly accused people before in my life without getting evidence that the person did it. 

Word Reporter: Jesse

Sanguine: reddish, ruddy 

Meagreness: elongated, usually from the square or circular form. 

Truncheons: club carried by the police. 

Connector: Connor

1. In chapter one.
2. He imagines it.
3. Winston is at the movies imagining having rough intercourse/ raping her.
4. GTA 5.
5. When he says he would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax.
6. When people have wild fantasies, there probably fricked. 



This picture of all the different rules represents our theme, 'More rules doesn't mean more security' and how the party has a lot of rules in place yet the citizens do not have a lot of privacy in their lives.

1984 Lit Circle Chapter 1,2 & 3

Summary: Anayat 

Theme word: "Lost" 

In the first chapter a man named Winston Smith returns to his home. The panic that grabs hold of Winston when he realizes that he has written down "down with big brother" reveals his certainty in the pervasive omniscient  of the party and the efficiency of its monitoring techniques. In chapter 2 Winston is scared thinking the cops are at his door but it was just his neighbor. While in the neighbors apartment hes accused of thought crime. Winston hears a voice and writes it in his diary. In chapter 3 he feels extremely responsible for his mothers disappearance in political purge almost 20 years ago. Winston cant remember his childhood, nor are there documents backing it up.

Discussion Director: Kayla 

Questions:
1. What do you think will happen if the government finds out Winston is writing a journal?
 Answer from the group: Winston will be arrested for "thought crime" and people who are known for being arrested for "thought crime" usually dissapear.

2. What do you think "Big Brother" means/is?
Answer from the group: Big Brother is a made up person by the government to control people and to monitor everyone.

Passage Master: Natassja 

"Who controls the past.. controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past." (pg. 37)

A. This appears in Chapter 3, when Winston is thinking about the Party control of history and memory.

B. This passage is important because it is an example of the Party's technique of using false history to break down psychological independence of its subjects. Control of the past ensures control of the future, because the past can be treated essentially as a set of conditions that justify or encourage future goals.

C. When your parents treat you a certain way when you're younger or teach you certain things so that when you are older you are a certain way.

Word Reporter: Sydney  

Alterable: Capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic

Invariably: Unchanged; always the same

Fabrication: Construction or manufacture from prepared components

Connector: Jayson  

1. The First Chapter when Winston is writing his in book hiding from the telescreen.

2. Soon after the two minutes of hate Winston is not allowed to write your own thoughts or words.

3. Winston simply hides from the telescreen and writes in his diary until someone knocks on his door and he gets scared.

4. It reminds me of the TV show Dexter.

5. Living a secret, hiding from everyone, and not being able to talk to anyone.

6. If you've watched the show Dexter you learn to not share what you're doing with other, and to keep things to yourself.

This picture of a small boy represents our theme of "Lost" and how Winston does not remember anything from his childhood.

Monday 21 October 2013

Nav & Meghan

Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
  This image shows the theory of socialism because their ultimate goal is to have one united community working together.

Sunday 20 October 2013



The scene I chose is Winston writing in his journal. Winston starts off writing about the films he watched the night before and the Two Minute Hate and who he saw there, in particular O’Brian and how they are similar. After he loses his train of thought he looks back down to the page and realizes he has written “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” all over the page.  Winston becomes very nervous because he knows he has committed Thought Crime and if anyone finds out what he wrote, he will be punished by the Thought Police. I chose this scene because I thought that is showed clearly how the Government is taking over everyone’s life and how they believe everyone should live.  The scene also shows that everyone is living in a totalitarian life style and Winston believes he is the only one who wants to change it because no one else is saying anything.



The character I chose is Winston Smith because he has shown many of his sides so early into the novel. Winston seems like the kind of person that tries to hide behind his appearance because he does not want to be noticed until he has something big to say. When he is at home, Winston turns his back to the telescreen because he does not want the Party to be able to see into his personal life. Winston wants everyone to know what the government is trying to do to them but no one seems to pay attention. Winston does not like the Party and tries to test them to see how much they can take. I chose Winston because I believe he is going to try to make changes throughout the novel and the picture I chose goes along with that because I feel like he is going to try and do something he probably should not do.


When I think of 1984 , I think of a dark, gloomy, harsh atmosphere filled with no love and happiness. This is an image of where Winston Smith is first introduced climbing a staircase, struggling due to the ulcer above his right ankle. In the novel, love and having an intimate relationship with someone is not permitted, and the image of the heart beat monitor stopped is symbolic for the society's love dying.







Powerful Scene/Winston

When everyone was chanting "B-B" during the Two Minutes of Hate Winston and O'Brien shared a meaning full look. It was impossible for them not to chant the words because Big Brother's men were controlling them. But there was a moment where everyone could think and control their own thoughts in between each chant. In one of those moments Winston looked at O'Brien and their eyes locked. the "look" said they both have the same opinion of Big Brother; a different one than was allowed by the police/government. It is significant because Winston felt really alone about his opinion of his hatred for the government but the glance could indicate that O'Brien wants to team up with Winston somehow. It supports the dystopian atmosphere because it shows how miserable everyone is and how they have to do things, do everything in fact, against their will.

 
This is a picture from I Robot (movie) where Sonny winks at the human to show that he's on his side and can trust him, kind of like the glance Winston and O'Brien had.


Winston


I chose this image because he is alone; he has no family or friends. He is living a miserable life and he can't even remember if he ever had a good one. He has people monitoring his thoughts, the Thought Police, and can never get them out of his head. He is somewhat alienated because he does not know if anyone else feels the same way about Big Brother or the rest of the government.

This photo is from a TV episode called Dexter. The character Dexter frequently kills murderers who deserves to die for the greater good for the city. This relates to Whinston's personality and character because he is constantly committing crimes for the greater good for the people and for the city by going against his own party.

Saturday 19 October 2013

An Fully Armed Girl

An Fully Armed Girl
                           


         "One of them was a girl whom he often passed in the corridors. He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably--since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner she had some mechanical job onone of the novel-writing machines. She was a bold-looking girl, of about twenty-seven, with thickhair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough tobring out the shapeliness of her hips."                    ——1984

         The girl in this picture has nice looking face, and people can notice that she is a little bit tired in her dark-colour eyes. She does not have any make up on her face, only gets a simple pony-tail, and does not think about falling in love with others. This picture is only about when she is being alone by herself, if she get with others, she will use serious brow to cover and armed herself. Maybe she is concerned about the Big Brother, but she does not have any thing else that she may can trust. Maybe she is concerned about herself, and have no life goal. It can be the reason why a normal woman would like to join in Anti-Sex League.

A Powerful Scene -- The Five Ministries

A Powerful Scene -- The Ministry of Love




         The Ministry of Love is the really frightening building. There are no windows in it at all. Most people never go inside(nor within half a kilometer of it), and is impossible to enter except on official business. Then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

         Compared with other ministries, the Ministry of Love is the only one that the author described of the government building, which is full of darkness mood. The readers can easily feel the power of the party. Though the author does not say about it, the readers still can figure out that if people come closer without the business to due with Miniluv, death will be their only way to go through.

Friday 18 October 2013

Allison Lagan and Rebekah Bolinder

Satire:

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's actions, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

An example of Satire is the Simpson's. The Simpson's make fun of Presidents, companies, TV Stations, and all of these cartoons are based on recent happenings that the writers put into a comedian role for the cartoons. 





Scene from chapter 1:

"From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and marbled cover." pg. 7

"It was a peculiarly beautiful book." "Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past." pg. 8


This Journal represent's Winston's Journal he bought. He wanted to start a diary.
"This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was resonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty five years in a forced-labour camp." pg. 8
The telescreen in Winston's living room was in a unusual position. Instead of being placed where it could "see" the intire room, it was placed in a longer wall opposite of the window.
Because of the unusual position of the telescreen, Winston could now sit in a alcove and start writting in his diary. We chose this scene because it shows how Winston was confident enough to start a diary and writting down the date: "April 4th, 1984" when in reality he didn't accually even know the correct date.


O'Brien



This Picture represents O'Brien from George Orwell's book 1984
"O'Brien was a large, burly man with a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, brutal face." pg. 12
"In spite of his formidable appearance he had a certain charm of manner."
We chose this picture to represent him because he looks serious yet down to earth. He was a person Winston thought he could talk to, if somehow you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone.




I picked this photo because I think it resembles O'Brian from the story 1984. The story describes  O'Brian as "a large burly man with a thick neck". It also says that O'Brian had a trick of re-settling his glasses on his nose. The man in this picture has all of the above features. That is why i chose this picture to represent O'Brian.







The picture represents the scene when Winston Smith is writing in his diary and he is writing it in a spot where the tv cant see him, this supports the atmosphere and mood of the story because it shows that he is not allowed to be writing in his journal and that something like writing in a diary which is normal is considered such a horrible thing in the novel.





This Picture represents Julia, the girl is in her 20's and the girl wearing a leather jacket symbolizing her rebeliousness, the other picture with the glasses also symbolizes her hiding and keeping her affair with Winston on the down low.
Totalitarianism: Imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed

'merica wants you - Jayson Giorio

This photo reminds me of the big brother posters plastered all over the city to hipnotize the population. The man in the photo looks mean, as he's pressuring you to join the army; this imply's its bad if you dont join the army, as you should feel guilty.  This is almost like big brother is watching you, trying to scare you, implying its bad to not listen to the higher power.

Kayla & Sydney

Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

 Example:
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games imagines a world that is a total nightmare of a place, the opposite of a utopia. The totalitarian government of Panem has complete control of the citizens' lives and subjects them to horrifying acts of cruelty – that are then televised on national television! That gives this novel a dystopian flavor.
Fascism:

Fascism is an extreme right wing political ideology. However, some aspects of their beliefs resemble those of left wing ideologies such as Communism and Socialism. Fascist states are led by dictators and are totalitarian, meaning they have complete power. They believe in using the military to try and spread their aggressive nationalism.

An example of a fascist state is Italy during 1925-1943, when Benito Mussolini ruled. Mussolini was one of the key creators of fascism.

Tiantian & Jenelle

Alec and Connor

Democracy - government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

An example other than 1984 is our own government. The people vote for a person who represents their needs in the governmet. Democracy has been traced back to the 6th century B.C., when it was used in Athens.

 
The Burj Khalifa and the Ministry of truth tower over each respective cities










   







 


Shows how the Ministry of truth and the Burj Khalifa separate themselves from the rest of the city. Both showing off their superiority from those around them and making everything each seem so small.

Some thing about Nazism (Even Xu)

Nazism

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      1). National Socialism is also known as Nazism. 
                           
      2). Nazism is the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and state as well as other related far-right groups. 
           It started in the 1920s. It gained power in 1933, starting the Third Reich, lasting in Germany until 1945, at the end of World War II.
     
      3). The most famous Nazi leader is
   Adolf Hitler .

      4). Nazism is well-known by the second world war.

anayat and jayson DYSTOPIA CUUUUH

A dystopia is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future.


Definition: Communism

Communism is a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and recieves according to their ability and needs, an example of this is China and North Korea whose governments are both extremely communists.
I picked this picture to represent the 2 minute hate in the story 1984. This picture represents the 2 minute hate very well because the main character observes that people were jumping up and down in their places and throwing things at the big telescreen. That is why I think this picture describes the 2 minute hate. I also think this picture was taken from the sixties/seventies because of the way the people are dressed.

Thursday 17 October 2013


REPRESENTING A CHARACTER

O`Brian



The man in the picture is wear a black leather jacket which stereotypically represents rebelliousness. Also he does not have any facial expression and he is glaring which can be interpreted as a mysterious and powerful person. 

The appearance of this character hints that O`Brian has something to hide which he does not want any one to find out. This character can do anything as long as he believes it is correct and he can also be dishonest to anyone.

I chose O`Brian because this character seemed like it had less things that the reader knows about him. 

I chose this picture to represent O`Brian because the glare and the appearance represented the description of O`Brian well. 
A POWERFUL SCENE

"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. The Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs." (page 6)

This scene is powerful because the reader can see that contradictions between the Ministry and its job in society. Yet the characters in the novel, "1984", have been exposed to so much propaganda, they are not able to see the contradictions, and therefore they believe what is told to them by the government.

This scene supports the atmosphere in the novel, "1984", which is negative and bleak, because it helps the reader get a sense of how much control the government has in the daily lives of a citizen.

This scene supports the mood in the novel, "1984", which is despair for the situation when George Orwell was writing the novel, because the government had total control which this scene portrays.

I chose this scene in the novel because this part of chapter one made me think of how much control the government actual has. Furthermore, this scene helped me to get a better sense of the atmosphere.



I chose this picture to represent the scene because the small buildings represent the general population. Also the buildings are small because that represents the government keeping an eye on everyone.
DEFINE  A TERM

Utopia - an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

Example - In the episode of Spongebob Squarepants, where Squidward moves to all-squid community and finds that this is his utopian dream-life.

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Propaganda:
information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Example: In world war two the goverment used propaganda in the way of posters to encourage people to join that army, and that war was good