Part 2: Chapter 10
I honestly was surprised at the ending of chapter 10, but not because Winston and Julia were captured but the how. I always knew they were running out of time and they would be found out, but I really was not expecting it to be at the shop. I didn't really think much about how I thought they would be found out, I just knew it was going to happen. It really did surprise me when Mr. Charrington was revealed to be part of the though police. I more expected him to rat on Winston and Julia than be the one to bring them down. My only question is why so long? If he knew that they used his place for things the party wouldn't approve of; why would he not bust them earlier? Unless he was waiting to see if they were in association with the brotherhood. That book was their undoing in that was the case; if only the brotherhood can read them.
I'm really excited to read the next few chapters of this book. To be honest until about the last few chapters it was a little dry, but now that something interesting is going to happen. We get to see what actually happening inside the Ministry of Love, I hope anyways. I always like how you can read different situations in a book and then stop, and think about how maybe you would react in that same situation. I don't know it that just me or not, but I do it all the time. Just stop reading and think well if I was so and so I'd do this. But, then I stop again and think would I really do that? It's really easy to think you'd do something, but it's a completely different situation when it really happens. This is probably really off topic but I wanted to write about it. But then again, it's actually really hard to relate to anything in this book. Winston is a men with no empathy whats so ever, and Julia... well Julia is Julia. It's hard to say i would do this in this situation, because I'm not a person who does not know what empathy is. I can say I wouldn't kick a severed hand out of my path, but I don't know if i wouldn't. I can say I wouldn't confess to the thought police, but I don't know if I would or not. It's a hard thing to give a straight answer to, because it's always changing until it actually happens. After all it's just an imagination of what one might do.
But I think that is what great books do...they put us in the position of the character. We get that perspective we may not have in any other way. It is, I think, why literature is crucial to society and culture. We need to see what other people feel, experience, and do so we can project ourselves into the same thing. Sometimes we do it as an escape (romance, fantasy) and sometimes we do it to go elsewhere. If we don't read and make the effort to see ourselves in the words, what is the point?
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