Alden Andruans
9/29/2015 03:31:20 pm
¨Big Brother is watching you!¨
Nicholas
9/29/2015 04:49:30 pm
I think that the party certainly tried to set up monitors everywhere, but they inevitably missed a few spots because nobodies perfect. It could be some metaphor for life always finding a way, but I think the imperfection is just kickoff point for the rest of the plot. If the government was so good at spying that no one could ever rebel, the book wouldn't be very interesting.
Alden Andrunas
9/30/2015 02:38:00 pm
It could also be for financial restrictions if they're in everyone's houses.
Carson Daybell
10/12/2015 05:40:34 am
I think they intended to put monitors everywhere but missed a few spots
Connor Jennings
10/12/2015 08:18:50 am
You make a good point, why does BB not set up monitors everywhere? I think that they do this because they know there will always be those who try to revolt, and they want to give those people a place to plot that the government already knows about, so it will be easy to wipe out the rebels when they reach a critical mass.
Nicholas
9/29/2015 04:45:15 pm
"He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms -- one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended." ... "Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages"
Emmy
9/29/2015 04:54:11 pm
"Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamoured to be taken to see it."
Connor Reyes
9/29/2015 05:28:43 pm
I Think it is because he docent see it as being a teriable place he see it as being a good place and thats how he grew up
Garret
9/29/2015 07:56:01 pm
Yep society is cra cra
Emmy
9/29/2015 04:55:14 pm
Why bother having children that would grow up in such a terrible world?
Gigi
9/29/2015 05:01:41 pm
I think the reason people continue to live there lives like this and have and raise children this way is beacuase it's there reality, it's all they know. They might not know how bad killing people really is if they have been convinced it's great
Nicholas
9/29/2015 05:11:24 pm
It could be some propaganda trick that the ministry is pulling. They seem to have so much power over the citizens lives that If they told everyone to have kids, I doubt anyone would oppose them.
Karim
9/29/2015 08:11:20 pm
Ever if the world is in a bad society,if there weren't any children now, we would probably be extincted in 100 years.
Gigi
9/29/2015 05:17:36 pm
"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"
Connor Reyes
9/29/2015 05:26:55 pm
I think they yell traitor because they are only told by there parents what wright and whats wrong
Marissa
9/29/2015 08:42:17 pm
I think it's because of the things they have heard by others. Because they are children they probably don't fully understand what their saying. They just pick up anything they hear. Maybe they hear it a lot at home.
Connor Reyes
9/29/2015 05:25:42 pm
"He drew in his breath and opened the door. Instantly a warm wave of relief flowed through him." I chose this quote because it is relatable in the aspect of having a break when doing something that might have been tuff or long and felling excited to be home. Why would brother have a a child in such terrible place like its surrounding.
kaleb Breton
9/29/2015 05:53:08 pm
I believe that Winston thinks it's safe because, the TV is the only source of surveillance and by bending over the paper and having it far away lets him feel it's safe.
piper
9/29/2015 07:29:23 pm
I think that he is sure that bug brother cant see what he is writing bacause the only servalence that he knows of is from the screen and where he is out of sight of the screeen. But for how he thinks that B-B does not know what he is thinking could be false they could havve a way of knowing what people are thinking.
monique
9/29/2015 07:49:43 pm
winston probably knows big brother is capable of seeing/hearing what he's thinking but doesn't think they would do it at that very moment
Ruby
9/29/2015 07:59:41 pm
It said in the book that the only way they could see what you're thinking was by plugging your cord in. I doubt he thinks they'll specifically target him.
Connor Jennings
10/12/2015 08:19:30 am
To be fair, the government never says that the penalty for doing something like that is death, culprits are just taken by the government and everyone thinks that they are killed. I think that straight up killing someone is a bit too nice for the government, I think something more nefarious is going on.
kaleb breton
9/29/2015 05:50:44 pm
This A Quote from lord of the Flies
Brittney
9/29/2015 08:24:05 pm
Winston believes that it's the 1980s but it's really the 1940s.
Troy Gomez
9/29/2015 06:52:52 pm
"DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"
piper
9/29/2015 07:26:54 pm
I think he hates Big Brother beause who would want a person desiding if he can think, what he can eat, what he can buy. I know for sure that i would not like that because you have no fredom in it.
Bella
9/29/2015 08:16:37 pm
He hates B-B because he sees whats wrong with the system, unlike the rest of society. for example: he sees why hangings are wrong and that they don't have any freedom (what do eat, wear, etc.)
Ben Callaway
9/29/2015 08:39:49 pm
I think that he would hate Big Brother because he doesn't like being controlled. People like to think for themselves, and Big Brother prevents that.
Marissa
9/29/2015 08:46:04 pm
I think there are many reasons why he hates big brother. But I think the main reason is because they lack freedom. He talks a lot about how he writes. And what he writes is bad. I think because he enjoys writing it's harder for him to write exactly how he feels.
piper
9/29/2015 07:43:40 pm
"A hair laid across the page-ends was too obvious. With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved."
Ruby
9/29/2015 07:54:42 pm
I think that the younger generation love big brother because they weren't around to see what society was like before it. I'm predicting that the older generation knows the truth behind what's truly going on and how it was nicer in the past.
Luci
9/29/2015 08:01:56 pm
I think tht the younger generation love B-B because they don't know any better they have known nothing else in there life and don't have a reason to hate him. I also think not all older people hate B-B only Winston and O'brian have hinted to hating him
Brittney
9/29/2015 08:22:30 pm
I think that the reason that the older people don't like big Brother as much is because they have grown an understanding for what life could be like and the understanding that they should have rights and freedom to their speech, thoughts, and reaction. The younger kids have been raised with this kind of treatment and so they don't know anything different.
Ruby
9/29/2015 07:51:55 pm
"It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. "
Sammy
9/29/2015 09:54:51 pm
That is a good question. I think that the author was writing a story on how he hopes the future would not be like. Maybe he thought it would be a sad place like in the book.
Garret
9/29/2015 07:55:03 pm
"Why can't we see the hanging!" "Wanna see the hanging wants to see the hanging!"
Grace
9/29/2015 07:58:54 pm
"He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."
Luci
9/29/2015 08:05:22 pm
Winston states that the thought police can "plug in your wire at any time" I and not sure what tins means.
Audrey
9/29/2015 08:21:42 pm
I think it means that when you're in your house, the telescreen is watching you and you're being listened to. My guess is that they can be accessed at any time or all the time so they have to watch their facial expressions
Bella
9/29/2015 08:13:52 pm
just like winston said in the first chapter, the thought police could tell what he's thinking just by his back. Their trained to notice what's usually unnoticeable to ordinary people
Hannah
9/29/2015 10:14:12 pm
I also remember them saying in the first chapter, they can tell by looking at your emotions.
Dylan B.
9/29/2015 08:11:21 pm
"'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!'"ch.2
Kevin V.
9/29/2015 08:38:12 pm
For your first question I don't think that the children will probably play such a big part in the story if they do and that Winston is just sort of describing how they are raised. And as for the woman with O'Brian she will play a major part in story soon.
Robson
9/29/2015 09:48:48 pm
It's kinda weird to image some little kids running around screaming hateful things.
monique
9/29/2015 08:11:22 pm
"Big Brother is watching you!"
Luci
9/29/2015 08:20:17 pm
When B-B finds people thinking bad thoughts he vaporizes them.
Bella
9/29/2015 08:12:00 pm
" Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party"
Audrey
9/29/2015 08:17:59 pm
I think that, in this case, the children of this specific generation were never taught moral principles. In most novels about dystopian future, the children have either been raised in poverty or being repressed by the government, but in 1984, the children are nurtured into the perfect demographic for the governing system.
Audrey
9/29/2015 08:12:29 pm
"Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same"
Ben Callaway
9/29/2015 08:47:44 pm
I think it may be because memories of childhood could shape adults to be different and maybe not like Big Brother.
Rachel Mendelsohn
9/29/2015 09:03:50 pm
That's an interesting question; it might have something to do with the Thought Police. Perhaps they were brainwashed? It could, however, have a more psychological and less "sic-fi" explanation. I have two theories. First, they could be using a tactic known as gas lighting, where memories can be twisted or replaced. This could be backed up by the the "mutability of the past" recognized by Ingsoc. This idea that the past can be changed, mutilated, into what the mutilatior sees fit. The other possibility comes from laws of the society are made to to make them forget. The mind is meant to be the birthplace of ideas, and isn't designed to be where they remain. If information is not reinforced or recorded, it slips from memory. Neurologically, those neurons are not protected by an extra coating of myelin, they can be cleaned out as unimportant, or are harder to recall. This is also why when Winston can not talk or write about his ideas, he has a hard time remembering them.
Karim
9/29/2015 08:16:53 pm
"Big brother is watching"
Brittney Lubeski
9/29/2015 08:17:46 pm
Quote - "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death"
Hannah
9/29/2015 10:17:06 pm
I dont think they would kill children because everyone knows that children dont understand everything and they have a mind of their own. So I feel like maybe they have some sort of way of punishing them in a verbal way so they understand.
Luci
9/29/2015 08:18:36 pm
A hair laid across the page-ends was too obvious. With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.
Kevin V.
9/29/2015 08:33:00 pm
They do mention in the story that the apartments/flats are small so maybe that implies that there isn't really anywhere else that would be safer than his drawer. Plus he also kind of accepts that fact that he will get caught and be killed so he doesn't really care that much anymore.
Rachel Mendelsohn
9/29/2015 08:39:16 pm
There is no such place. The only control he has know is to find out if they have come at any given time. There are screens, spies, and Thought Police everywhere. There comes a point in paranoia when you accept that you will be found out, that you are being watched.
Kevin V.
9/29/2015 08:21:15 pm
"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting "Traitor!" and Though-Criminal!", the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters." P. 23 9/29/2015 08:24:40 pm
"'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round.
Rachel Mendelsohn
9/29/2015 08:31:18 pm
"He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms -- one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended."
Ben Callaway
9/29/2015 08:37:05 pm
"Since when Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was generally at peace with the other"
Robson
9/29/2015 09:46:14 pm
I actually never thought of that connection so good observation.
Marissa Limon
9/29/2015 08:57:16 pm
"Big brother is watching"
Christy Ludolf
9/29/2015 09:10:14 pm
"DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!!"
Emma Hernandez
9/29/2015 09:28:08 pm
"'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round."
Emma Hernandez
9/29/2015 09:40:49 pm
"'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round."
Robson
9/29/2015 09:45:14 pm
"They're are disappointed because they don't get to see the hanging"
Evan McDuffie
9/29/2015 09:45:15 pm
"At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of "B-B! . . . B-B! . . . B-B! . . . " over and over again, very slowly..."
Jackson Welsh
9/30/2015 05:55:18 pm
I think there are other people like Winston, but they are all probably too afraid to rebel against Big Brother.
Sammy
9/29/2015 09:53:02 pm
" 'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round."
Dominic
9/29/2015 10:28:10 pm
I think pretty much everyone is working for big brother, because it is to late to fight against him, and people are growing up worshipping him, because they have no one else to believe in.
Hannah
9/29/2015 10:08:11 pm
"Why can't we go and see the hanging? roared the boy in his huge voice. Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round."
Katie
9/29/2015 10:17:51 pm
"Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamoured to be taken to see it." 9/29/2015 10:17:58 pm
"Whenever he wrote “down with big brother!”, or whenever he refrained from writing it, it made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, it made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same" 9/29/2015 10:20:09 pm
How does he know this society is horrible if he always grew up with it?
Dominic
9/29/2015 10:25:12 pm
"But even in his panic he did not want to smuge the creamy paper by shutting the book when the ink was wet. He drew a breath and opened the door.
Ben G
9/30/2015 12:00:25 am
"At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of "B-B!... B-B!... B-B!" over and over again, very slowly"
Trevor Lockhart
9/30/2015 06:41:31 am
"Why can't we go and see the hanging?" roared the boy "Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!" chanted the little girl
Jackson Welsh
9/30/2015 05:53:23 pm
I think that big brother does draw comparisons to enforced religions we learned about in Europe. I like how you recognized that.
Daven K.
9/30/2015 02:53:09 pm
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"
Diamond
9/30/2015 03:20:02 pm
hey get so noisy"she said. Theyŕe disappointed because they couldn't go see the hanging, that's what it is.
kelly witt
9/30/2015 04:46:41 pm
'Why can't we go and see the hanging?' roared the boy in his huge voice.
Jackson Welsh
9/30/2015 05:52:20 pm
"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party."
Steven
10/5/2015 04:10:40 pm
"Big brother is watching"
Carson Daybell
10/12/2015 05:54:08 am
"It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. "
Carson Daybell
10/12/2015 05:58:22 am
Question: What would happen if little children disobeyed big brother.
Connor Jennings
10/12/2015 08:20:03 am
“None of the boys could of found good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack” Comments are closed.
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