1984 Chapters 2 and 3

1/10/2012

Choose a quotation from your reading and blog it! We will scroll through the quotations in class on Thursday before heading to the lab.

Emily

1/10/2012 03:24:51 am

"It was Mrs. Parsons, the wife of a neighbor on the same floor." (20)
Isn't she still a neighbor?

"It was almost normal for people over 30 to be frightened of their own children." (24)
Well, that's not healthy.

Gabby

1/10/2012 07:51:56 am

"-you were suppossed to call everyone "comrade"-but with some women one used it instinctively." (21)
In Animal Farm, Napoleon had everyone call eachother comrade.

Sam

1/11/2012 04:21:43 am

"He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable." (25)

Danielle

1/11/2012 04:37:26 am

"It was somehom slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters." (23)
Scary, don't you think?!

Danielle

1/11/2012 04:57:01 am

"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." (26) Which isn't even true because the Thought Police can arrest you for your thoughts!

Nathan

1/11/2012 05:37:54 am

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."(24,25)

Leandra

1/11/2012 06:26:09 am

"Thought crime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."

Kim

1/11/2012 08:39:52 am

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Kim

1/11/2012 08:40:28 am

sorry (32)

Emma

1/11/2012 10:14:35 am

"To know and not to know, to be conscious of conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out..."
(pg. 32)

The Coolest Kid in Class (Alex)

1/11/2012 10:24:20 am

"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." (32)

Jennifer

1/11/2012 10:38:16 am

"Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory." (26)

Dana

1/11/2012 10:50:10 am

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."

Kara

1/11/2012 12:02:09 pm

"... and was menacing at him with a toy automatic pistol, while his sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood." both dressed in "the uniform of the Spies." "Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!' " "Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!"

Kara (cont.)

1/11/2012 12:03:07 pm

Pages 22 and 23
Violent much?

Katheirne

1/11/2012 02:38:02 pm

(33) The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?

Philip Anderson

1/11/2012 08:32:13 pm

"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic............................ To become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed."

Philip Anderson

1/11/2012 08:35:17 pm

Page 32-33

Phil

1/11/2012 08:44:54 pm

Beat ya to it Dave

Phil

1/11/2012 08:45:26 pm

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