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.
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