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=__1984__= Steph - Black Jocelyn - Teal Blaine - Pink Shelby - Lime Green Mikki - Purple Nicki - Orange Brooke - Red Brandi - Yellow Cassie - Light Blue Heather - Dark Green __Book One__ Chapter 1- I think that it is weird how they have the government watching them all the time. It's also werid how they have the Thought Police so you can't even have your own thoughts about anything. Blaine I agree with you, its so weird how the government monitors their thoughts and everything. It is also odd how they have things like TV's called teliscreens, it makes you wonder if the Tv's in our house are monitored by the government also. freaky. -Shelby I honestly don't like the fact that they are being watched all the time. I agree with Blaine and Shelby. I could never live in a society where you weren't allowed to have your own thoughts and you were watched all the time. (Steph) It was wierd how they were always being watched and not even their thoughts were safe. I also think it was wierd for them to think that where they lived wasn't half bad when we live in a way nice way advanced place.

I've had thoughts before like the ones Winston has had. There is a saying that says someone is always watching you, reading this book makes you wonder... Who is "Big Brother"? and why does winston hate him so much. Why is it illegal for him to keep a journal, and if he doesnt't wan the thought police watching him throught the tv why doesn't he just turn it off? (Cassie) Big rother is basically the governent. Big Brother is the name of the dominant political party in the society. Winston hates them because of the way the big brother party officials run the government. it is illegal becasue they don't want them to think to much or be able to write things down. it is illegal to turn off those TV's. That is how they watch them.(Brandi) I don't think that it's right that Winston has to worry that because he is writing in a diary/journel that he is going to be arrested. Chapter 2- They have brainwashed the children and created jounior spies. The adults are afraid of the children. But why would the Goverment use children to due there dirty work? (Cassie) Cassie, I agree with Nicki. I think that children don't know exactly what they're doing. They are just told what to do by the government who looks powerful to them so they obey. I honestly don't think adults would do the types of things the children do because the adults know or understand more of what they would be asked to do, unlike the kids. (Steph) Yeah. I agree too. The children are easy to manipulate, especially in a society where if the government says that two plus two equals five, you have to believe it. Children are a lot easier to manipulate than adults, especially when you get them young (Brandi)

The children want to turn adults in to the thought police and the parents are afraid because once you are gone you never existed. Like you never were. Like, you, aren't you, you're just gone. I think that the reason they use the kids is because they are easy to manipulate and they don't know the depth of the cause and affect with their actions. Re: Cassie: I think they're using the children because they are more suseptiable to do what the government wants from them without actually realizing what is happening. The adults have been around longer so they would be more wary about what the government is trying to do.

Chapter 3 Why is it so hard for him to remember his childhood? I think it is weird how this "Big Brother" shows up and has history dating back to the 1930's. They must have lied to the poeple about the past.

They have rewritten whatever "Big Brother" doesn't find fit to be in the past. If Big Brother predicts something and it's wrong they just change it and everyone thinks the wrong prediction never happened. It's part of the whole brainwashed thing. I honestly could never live in this society. The whole brainwashing thing is awful. Being brainwashed is a common thing in the books we are reading lately.? Like in Anthem, those people were brainwashed too. They weren't allowed to live their own lives. Their lives were decided for them and they just had to go with it. They were told what career they would have to do and they were supposed to all be the same. They weren't allowed to be independent individuals, like Winston, since he wasn't allowed to even think for himself. (Steph)

Honestly I Hope that are society never ends up like this one. If Big Brother doesn't like something that happened in the past they just go back and change it like its nothing. YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE HISTORY. It's there for a reason, so we can look back on the past and learn from it instead of just making the same stupid mistakes over and over again. (Cassie)

So why did hey end u. Killimg Winston? I just don't understand that. (joce)

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