Summarizer: Part 1, Chapter 3 & 4

CHAPTER 3
pages 29-37

CHAPTER 4
pages 38-48

That night, Winston dreamt about his family. The person who stock out to him was his mother who disappeared when he was only ten. The loud whistle from the telescreen woke Winston up from his dream and made everyone do morning exercises called The Physical Jerks. As he was doing the Physical Jerks, he was remembering childhood events. Winston was ordered to write an order for Big Brother’s appraisal to a make believe war hero Comrade Ogilvy. Winston was angry that Big Brother was making this up to favor him.

***For this post, instead of separating the two chapters, I combine them. (:***

-Michelle Xia (:

Summarizer: Part 1, Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2
pages 20-28

When Winston wrote "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" in his diary, he realized that he had just committed a 'thoughtcrime' and he knew he will eventually be punished, also known as 'vaporized' (killed). He decides to continue writing, thinking he was already 'dead'.

This Chapter kind of confused me a little bit. What happened to Mrs. Parson son? Why couldn't they go see the hanging of the prisoners from Eurasia?

-Michelle Xia (:

Researcher: What really happened in 1984?

In the beginning, it was around April of 1984 in London. I did a little research on what happened that time and found this.

April 4: Peace protesters were evicted from the Greenhan Common Women's Peace Camp
April 9: 100+ pickets were arrest at Creswell colliery in Derbyshire and the Babbington colliery in Nottinghamshire.
April 12: Arthur out rules a national ballot of miners on the topic to continue their strike.
April 17: Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed by a gunman.

(All information from Wikipedia.)

Do you think the Arthur predicted well? Is there a connection of some sort? Any comments?

-Michelle Xia (:

Summarizer: Part 1, Chapter 1

This book is a bit strange in how they put chapters. At first I thought the big bold letters were chapters but, I don't think chapters are 100 pages long so I went to an online website where you can read 1984 for free online to see that it's parts and within that, it's chapters. TEEHEE.

CHAPTER 1
Pages 1-20

This book explains the story about Winston at around April of 1984. He was on a lunch break from his job in the Ministry of Truth. Everywhere he went, he saw a big poster that says, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”. Winston begins to keep a Diary and explained what he watched like night.

The next day, two people visited Winston’s work place, a dark-haired girl and O’Brien. He hated her because he realized that he was attracted to her, but can’t have her. After the Two Minute Hate, everyone is chanting “B-B”. Winston felt disgust and record his feelings onto his diary.

-Michelle Xia (:

Scene Setter: Scene #1:

"A kilometer away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape. This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste-this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of Oceania. He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this. Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with balks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger path and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses?" (Page 3)

Winston is describing, from his window, how London looked like. It sounds like London is a dirty place because in the first sentence, Winston is saying how the Ministry of Truth is towering over the GRIMY landscape. I also know London is dirty because it says that the houses were rotten, there is plaster dust swirling around, and there is filthy colonies of wooden dwellings. From Winston's description, I also imagined London as a destroyed-looking place because he mentions how places were bombed and there is heaps of rubble.

-- Janet (:

Illustrator: ILLUSTRATION #1:

Pages 5-7

Hey guys, its Janet. For some reason, when I uploaded the drawing, it came out sideways. Yeah, so I drew a picture of Winston sitting to the left of the telescreen, where he won't be seen, but he could still be heard. And I drew him writing in his diary.

I choose to draw this scene because I think it is important how he is doing something that he has to keep a secret or else he would be punished to death.

FEW QUESTIONS

Hey guys... i had a few questions, I will post more when I have more time. I so tired but since I'm doing it why not right?

It might be just me not reading more carefully, but whose Brother Big? And what's INGSOC? They keep mentioning ingsoc and I'm very confused. I think someone will be able to help right?

HOPE YOU GUYS HAD A GOOD NIGHT!!!!!!!!!! AND SWEET DREAMS!!!!!!!!! <3

-Opal Lim

Word Watcher: Post 1

Hey, you guys! It's me Opal. :D This was suppose to be posted up yesterday or today morning but my internet was acting weird do I couldn't. I can't do it as fast because (as I said before) sometimes my computer goes crazy but I got some words that caught my eyes. I wasn't sure what a word watcher was suppose to do but I heard that a word watcher is suppose to look up words and make sentences with it. But here it is! (It's for pages 1-65)

1. oblong (pg 2): elongate, usually from the square or circular form. The cheese oblonged off the pizza.
2. sanguine (pg 2): cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident. The new kid in school walked sanguinely down the hallway.
3. ramify (pg 4): to divide or spread out into branched or branchlike parts; extend into subvixions. There are laws ramify into many differnt types.
4. slummy (pg 6): not in the dictionary. If anyone knows, please tell me because now I'm curious.
5. porpoise (pg 8): any of several small, gegarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific. Whales and dolphins are common porpoises.
6. jewess (pg 8): a Jewish girl or woman. "There comes the jewess, Abby," said a mean 10 years old girl.
7. burrow (pg 8): a hole or tunnel in the ground madde by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refudge. We saw the rabbit's round tail peeking out of the burrow.
8. physique (pg 11): physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development. The physique of a football player is buff and strong.
9. telescreen (pg 2): a television screen, especially, a large one suitable for viewing by large number of people. When we looked into the telescreen, there was a picture of a big bear.
10. renegade (pg 11): a person who deserts a party or cause for another. After the fight, we knew that she was going to renegade us for a long time.
11. turf (pg ): a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots. We examined the turf and found interesting plants and roots.
12. zealot (pg 28): a person who shows a lot of zeal (zeal: fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desireor endeavor; enthusiatic diligence; ardor). Just before the marking period ends many student turn zealot so they can achieve the last minute grade "fix-up".
13. annihilate (pg 27): to reduce, to utter, ruin, or nonexistance; destroy utterly. The atomic bomb was an annihilation to the town.
14. unalterable (pg 30): not capable of being altered, changed, or modified. Making a unalterable mistake can be a habbit or just personalility.
15. boughs: a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches. The boughs can scare you at nights when you are alone.
16. shrewish: having the desposition of a shrew (shrew: a women of violent temper and speech; termagant). I sometimes show the shrewish side of me.
17. collate (pg ): to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheet of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc). When you have a lot of files, wou must collate them to be organized.
18. pneumatic (pg 43): of or pertaining to air, gases, or wind. The pneumatic tube in the tank was broken.
19. cubicle (pg 42): a small space or compartment partitioned off. The drawer was full of cubicles for small tools.
20. gin (pg 18): an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries. A girl tried a sip of gin and walked away with a sickening expression.
21. saccharine (pg 50): of the nature of or resembling that of sugar. The secret powder had a saccharine taste.
22. pannikin (pg 50): a small pan or metal cup. The warm soup was made and poured into a pannikin.
23. subsidiary (pg 52): serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary. (sorry guys, I can't think of a sentence for this)
24. strident (pg 53): making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking. The teacher made a strident noise by scratching the chalkboard to get the class' attention.
25. ill-omened (pg 55): having or attended by bad omen; ill-starred (omen: anything percieved or happening that is believed to prtend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; potent. ill-starred: doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky). Some religion believe that people are born being ill-omened or become ill-omened.
26. inscrutable (pg 60): incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable. If you did nothing wrong, there's no point of being inscrutable.
27. proliferate (pg 60): to grow or produce by muliplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation. Cancer is when cells proliferate abnormally.
28. bombardment (pg 60): to attack or batter with artillery fire. Someone holded up a bombardment as a weapon.
29. alluring (pg 64): very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive. The warm apple pie was alluring when I'm not allowed to eat them before dinner.
30. debauchery (pg 65): excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance. The smell of Thanksgiving dinner was very debauchery.

(i got all the definitions from dictionary.com)

I know I didn't read all 100 pages but I did something :D Hope this helps you guys.

Hello!

Hey! Welcome to our blog page! Here, we will be discussing the novel, 1984 by George Orwell. Our group consist of

Michelle: Researcher/Summarizer
Opal: Word Watcher
Annalee: Illuminator
Janet: Illustrator/Scene Setter

This is the schedule of what pages we need to read up to.

Friday, January 22: Got book.
Thursday, January 28: 1 - 104
Thursday, February 4: 105 - 224
Thursday, February 11: 225 - 326
Friday, February 12: THE END

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