1984
1) Winston Smith
2) 1984 was the very first book to write about a kind of post-apocalyptic world, or the kind of Sci-Fi book that went on to inspire books like The Hunger Games and A Crack in the Sky. The word "Orwellian" was added to the dictionary after this book was released to describe books similar in its nature.
3) Big Brother is the poster-child, or in this case poster-man for Ingsoc and the Party. Emanuel Goldstein is his arch nemesis, that the Party uses to further manipulate its citizens.
4) This story takes place in modern day London, in the country Oceania.
5) Ingsoc or The Party, you can choose which one you like the most. The official name is Ingsoc, but in the book everyone just refers to it as the Party?
6) Eurasia and Eastasia are the other two "Super-States". They are chronically at war with one and in an alliance with the other. Although they change, the Party requires you to use Double-think to think that Oceania has "always been at war" with the country you are currently at war with.
7) Julia is the girl from the fiction department.
8) They meet in a clearing in a forest where they believe no one will notice they are meeting. They carry out an "act against the Party" there.
9) He pretends that Winston needs to look at the Newspeak dictionary, when he actually is secretly trying to get Winston to come to his flat.
10) They discuss joining the Brotherhood and what they will do while in the Brotherhood.
11) In the apartment Winston rented from Charrington. They find out there is a telescreen behind a painting, Mr. Charrington is actually a member of the Thought Police, and that the Party had been following them for seven years and that that moment just happened to be when they finally took them down.
12) The Ministry of Love. Winston is beaten, tortured, and starved, because the Party does that to all people that come in to make them the quintessential party member. The same thing happens to Julia.
13) O'Brien helps the Party be interrogating Winston and by shocking him with (what I call) a pain dial. You would not think that he is a loyal member of the Party and that he is actually a member of the Brotherhood, but he was just part of the plan to take Winston and Julia down. The three steps of reintegration are learning, understanding, and acceptance
14) This is a disputed point, but I believe it was partly to win Winston trust, and make it to where he would cooperate a little more smoothly.
15) Room 101 is a room where people have to face their worst fear. While in the chamber, before you face the fear yet you know that it is coming, you scream for them to do it to the person that you love the most and not you. Although you do not believe that it is significant or that you meant it, you do, and you never feel the same about that person again. Winston does everything above, because they threaten to release to monster rats on him. He no longer loves Julia the same way again, he "betrayed" her.
16) As far as readers know, he is released shortly after this happens, because he finally "loves Big Brother".
17) They talk about Room 101, and say that people never feel the same after they leave that room. Their meeting is slightly awkward, and they say that they should meet again, but they do not feel an animalistic urge to do so.
18) He is in a group of people similar to himself and they are all debating over whether or not commas should go inside or after parenthesis.
19) "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
20) The book ends, oddly enough, with a victory for the Party. Not only did Winston now love Big Brother, but as O'Brien pointed out, Winston was the last of his kind, the people of humanity.
2) 1984 was the very first book to write about a kind of post-apocalyptic world, or the kind of Sci-Fi book that went on to inspire books like The Hunger Games and A Crack in the Sky. The word "Orwellian" was added to the dictionary after this book was released to describe books similar in its nature.
3) Big Brother is the poster-child, or in this case poster-man for Ingsoc and the Party. Emanuel Goldstein is his arch nemesis, that the Party uses to further manipulate its citizens.
4) This story takes place in modern day London, in the country Oceania.
5) Ingsoc or The Party, you can choose which one you like the most. The official name is Ingsoc, but in the book everyone just refers to it as the Party?
6) Eurasia and Eastasia are the other two "Super-States". They are chronically at war with one and in an alliance with the other. Although they change, the Party requires you to use Double-think to think that Oceania has "always been at war" with the country you are currently at war with.
7) Julia is the girl from the fiction department.
8) They meet in a clearing in a forest where they believe no one will notice they are meeting. They carry out an "act against the Party" there.
9) He pretends that Winston needs to look at the Newspeak dictionary, when he actually is secretly trying to get Winston to come to his flat.
10) They discuss joining the Brotherhood and what they will do while in the Brotherhood.
11) In the apartment Winston rented from Charrington. They find out there is a telescreen behind a painting, Mr. Charrington is actually a member of the Thought Police, and that the Party had been following them for seven years and that that moment just happened to be when they finally took them down.
12) The Ministry of Love. Winston is beaten, tortured, and starved, because the Party does that to all people that come in to make them the quintessential party member. The same thing happens to Julia.
13) O'Brien helps the Party be interrogating Winston and by shocking him with (what I call) a pain dial. You would not think that he is a loyal member of the Party and that he is actually a member of the Brotherhood, but he was just part of the plan to take Winston and Julia down. The three steps of reintegration are learning, understanding, and acceptance
14) This is a disputed point, but I believe it was partly to win Winston trust, and make it to where he would cooperate a little more smoothly.
15) Room 101 is a room where people have to face their worst fear. While in the chamber, before you face the fear yet you know that it is coming, you scream for them to do it to the person that you love the most and not you. Although you do not believe that it is significant or that you meant it, you do, and you never feel the same about that person again. Winston does everything above, because they threaten to release to monster rats on him. He no longer loves Julia the same way again, he "betrayed" her.
16) As far as readers know, he is released shortly after this happens, because he finally "loves Big Brother".
17) They talk about Room 101, and say that people never feel the same after they leave that room. Their meeting is slightly awkward, and they say that they should meet again, but they do not feel an animalistic urge to do so.
18) He is in a group of people similar to himself and they are all debating over whether or not commas should go inside or after parenthesis.
19) "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
20) The book ends, oddly enough, with a victory for the Party. Not only did Winston now love Big Brother, but as O'Brien pointed out, Winston was the last of his kind, the people of humanity.
To Kill A Mockingbird
1) Jem, Scout, and Dill are the main characters.
2) It was published at a perfect time, when most of the things in the book were realistic. It may not have been as successful had it not been published when it did.
3) 1. Mrs. Dubose. She was mean to Jem, Scout, and pretty much everyone when they passed by her house. She was a morphine addict and was able to break her addiction before she died with the help of Jem reading to her. She died of old age.
2. Tom Robinson. He is Atticus' client during the book. He dies when he attempts to escape prison when he is finally charged with raping a white woman.
3. Mr. Ewell. He is the person that charges Tom Robinson of raping his daughter (prosecutor). He threatens Atticus throughout the book, saying that he will get him. He dies while he is attempting to kill Jem and Scout, when he is thrust away from Scout by Boo Radley and he falls on his own knife.
4) Miss Maudie's house burns down during the winter time because she left the stove on. She was happy, because she always felt that her house was too big and now she had more room to make a garden on.
5) He thinks it is a "characture" of Mr. Avery.
6) He is defending Tom Robinson because he was accused of raping a white woman (falsly). The prosecutors are the Ewells.
7) They find several possessions, including: two Indian head pennies, a ball of yarn, a pocket watch, a Swiss army knife, lots of gum, and eventually a bunch of cement blocking up the knot-hole.
8) The setting of the book is around the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama (which is not an actual town in the real world).
9) Mrs. Dubose make fun of pretty much anyone that goes by her house. She eventually drives Jem to stomp all over her flowers because of something she said about Atticus. His punishment is to read to her, which turned out he would have to do anyway so that the reading would distract Mrs. Dubose from wanting to take morphine, since she was an addict.
10) They try to get Boo Radley to come out of his house so that they can see him. They think that he is about 6 in a half feet tall, ragged clothing, evil appearance almost like a ghost. They also think that he goes around eating everyone's cats and squirrels, which is obviously not true.
11) Since Mockingbirds always sing and never do anything bad, Atticus and Miss Maudie declare it a sin to kill a mockingbird, thus the book's namesake (see quote in blog review).
12) He dies when he attempts to escape prison after he is declared guilty of all charges and sentenced to death. He is unsuccessful, but would have been successful had he not had a bum arm.
13) Miss Stephanie Crawford. She gossips about pretty much anything and everything.
14) N-lovers (un-proper word).
15) Tom Robinson has an arm that was cut off in a cotton gin (his left). He would have been able to escape prison before he was executed had he had to good arms, but his execution pretty much took place then and there when he was shot.
16) She goes to the pageant in a ham costume. Later on, the glistening of the seasoning look of the costume allows Mr. Ewell to follow them, but helps her because the costume actually saves her life when Mr. Ewell attempts to stab her.
17) Aunt Alexandra so that Scout has a female influence on her so that she can become more of a lady. The main characters mostly dislike her, because she is restrictive and doesn't want Scout to wear any of her usual things and always gets on them for things that Atticus and Calpurnia would have let go of.
18) Mr. Ewell, he tries to kill Jem and Scout, but ends up tearing up Scout's costume and breaking Jem's right arm badly.
19) Boo Radley saves Scout and Jem from being killed at the hands of Mr. Ewell by throwing him, and Mr. Ewell accidentally falls on his own knife.
20) Jem is going to end up being fine, Scout has finally seen Boo Radley, much to Jem's disappointment The book ends with Atticus by Jem's side and Scout trying to be by his side, but Atticus taking her back to her room. The book is left a little bit more open than most books, which allows the reader to decide what happens next, with the knowledge that everyone is fine for the rest of their lives.
2) It was published at a perfect time, when most of the things in the book were realistic. It may not have been as successful had it not been published when it did.
3) 1. Mrs. Dubose. She was mean to Jem, Scout, and pretty much everyone when they passed by her house. She was a morphine addict and was able to break her addiction before she died with the help of Jem reading to her. She died of old age.
2. Tom Robinson. He is Atticus' client during the book. He dies when he attempts to escape prison when he is finally charged with raping a white woman.
3. Mr. Ewell. He is the person that charges Tom Robinson of raping his daughter (prosecutor). He threatens Atticus throughout the book, saying that he will get him. He dies while he is attempting to kill Jem and Scout, when he is thrust away from Scout by Boo Radley and he falls on his own knife.
4) Miss Maudie's house burns down during the winter time because she left the stove on. She was happy, because she always felt that her house was too big and now she had more room to make a garden on.
5) He thinks it is a "characture" of Mr. Avery.
6) He is defending Tom Robinson because he was accused of raping a white woman (falsly). The prosecutors are the Ewells.
7) They find several possessions, including: two Indian head pennies, a ball of yarn, a pocket watch, a Swiss army knife, lots of gum, and eventually a bunch of cement blocking up the knot-hole.
8) The setting of the book is around the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama (which is not an actual town in the real world).
9) Mrs. Dubose make fun of pretty much anyone that goes by her house. She eventually drives Jem to stomp all over her flowers because of something she said about Atticus. His punishment is to read to her, which turned out he would have to do anyway so that the reading would distract Mrs. Dubose from wanting to take morphine, since she was an addict.
10) They try to get Boo Radley to come out of his house so that they can see him. They think that he is about 6 in a half feet tall, ragged clothing, evil appearance almost like a ghost. They also think that he goes around eating everyone's cats and squirrels, which is obviously not true.
11) Since Mockingbirds always sing and never do anything bad, Atticus and Miss Maudie declare it a sin to kill a mockingbird, thus the book's namesake (see quote in blog review).
12) He dies when he attempts to escape prison after he is declared guilty of all charges and sentenced to death. He is unsuccessful, but would have been successful had he not had a bum arm.
13) Miss Stephanie Crawford. She gossips about pretty much anything and everything.
14) N-lovers (un-proper word).
15) Tom Robinson has an arm that was cut off in a cotton gin (his left). He would have been able to escape prison before he was executed had he had to good arms, but his execution pretty much took place then and there when he was shot.
16) She goes to the pageant in a ham costume. Later on, the glistening of the seasoning look of the costume allows Mr. Ewell to follow them, but helps her because the costume actually saves her life when Mr. Ewell attempts to stab her.
17) Aunt Alexandra so that Scout has a female influence on her so that she can become more of a lady. The main characters mostly dislike her, because she is restrictive and doesn't want Scout to wear any of her usual things and always gets on them for things that Atticus and Calpurnia would have let go of.
18) Mr. Ewell, he tries to kill Jem and Scout, but ends up tearing up Scout's costume and breaking Jem's right arm badly.
19) Boo Radley saves Scout and Jem from being killed at the hands of Mr. Ewell by throwing him, and Mr. Ewell accidentally falls on his own knife.
20) Jem is going to end up being fine, Scout has finally seen Boo Radley, much to Jem's disappointment The book ends with Atticus by Jem's side and Scout trying to be by his side, but Atticus taking her back to her room. The book is left a little bit more open than most books, which allows the reader to decide what happens next, with the knowledge that everyone is fine for the rest of their lives.