1984 by Brody Keith Smith https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5 Ambassador Collaboration en-us 2019-02-15 16:38:34 UTC 2025-12-17 22:33:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png Welcome brodyk15 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/331814544 Welcome to the "1984" Padlet.  Here you will post in collaboration with discussion ambassadors from your own class as well as ambassadors from other English Composition classes. When you post, consider what you've discussed with your group during class, then write a brief summary of the discussion. This should include 1) at least three "main points" 2) commentary (your take) and 3) at least three questions you still have after reading. In addition, you are required to respond to at least two of the questions posed by your fellow ambassadors. Feel free to add pictures, memes, gifs, selfies, etc. to this Padlet. Have fun with this and share what you know and ask what you don't know.]]> 2019-02-15 16:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/331814544 1984 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/350759754 1984 opens with Winston Smith entering Victory Mansions, a building that smells of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. When he enters his room, he is sure to sit out of view of the telescreen, so he can’t be spied on. He pulls a small red journal out of his briefcase, and begins to write his thoughts in it, ending with the phrase “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”, an act that would surely get him vaporized. 
Winston awakes the next morning to knocking on the door, fearing that people have found out about his writing and have shown up to vaporize him. In reality, it’s the wife of a work partner, Mrs. Parsons. She asks Winston to come across the hallway and fix her blocked sink, as Mr. Parsons is at work. After unblocking the sink, the Parsons’ obnoxious son hits Winston in the back of the neck, on his way out. 
The next day at work, Winston is sitting with his companions, Symes and Parson, when he notices a dark haired woman sitting at the table next to him who is staring at him. This strikes Winston as strange, as she stood near him the previous day at the Two Minutes Hate. Winston fears she is spying on him and wants to turn him in, but he decides to shrug it off as coincidence. 
Overall, I the book has had a slow start, and is a bit hard to follow at times, but I think it shows promise to be interesting in the later sections. 
One question I have is whether or not Winston will get caught, and if so who will he be caught by? When Winston is eating lunch with Symes and Parsons, he thinks to himself that Symes will someday surely be vaporized, as he knows too much and has read too many books, and I wonder if this will actually happen. In addition, I was if O’Brien knows something about Winston, as they locked eyes, even though Winston wasn’t sure if it was a reassuring or threatening look. 

]]> 2019-04-11 13:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/350759754 Alaina Fust, P1 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351041117 There is this new form of government and life style that is a dictatorship. The dictator is always right, his label is Big Brother. Oceania, the country they live in, is currently at war with Eurasia and alliance with Eastasia. The government has convinced the population that they have always been at war, because the ones still alive are the ones that remember a time before war are old. Winston is a writer, he has to write fake stories to make Big Brother seem like a great dictator. They used to have a different form of government but there was the purge of the 50s,which in turn changed it to a dictatorship.
2)I think the book starts out really slow explaining what everything means and what is happening. It is getting easier to know what is going on now that I have gotten a little farther into the book
3)My question is does the Big Brother and Winston relationship strike similarities to Stockholm syndrome?
]]> 2019-04-12 04:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351041117 SKELATOR (Destroyer of realms) 1 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351867100 1984 starts off with our protagonist Winston describing his surroundings in an internal monologues. He describes a television that supervises the people, giving us clear indication that the people in his world have little privacy. He talks of how he had come across a blank book, in which he has decided to write a diary in the only place he cannot be supervised in his house. This indicates that that free thought is not seen in a positive light and is confirmed later by his description of the Thought Police.He recalls the events of the day including a session of hate which must be conducted once daily and is used as a vessel to strengthen the dictator of Winston’s world named “Big Brother”’s authority. It is seen in this recollection of his day he expresses his distaste in big brother and believes he has found an accomplice in his views.Although he cannot be sure as no one is to oppose big brother’s authority.
There are clear themes of government invasion of privacy  and technological advances being used for evil deeds instead of good.

My three questions are 
1. Who’s this big brother punk?! How do you think he has come into power
2. Gin is provided to Winston, do you actually think this is gin  is it somthing else??0w0 perhaps anti derpresseng water?!
3) Why would it be important for the government to keep tabs on its citizens? I think it’s to keep them afrain and know they are being watched ]]> 2019-04-16 03:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351867100 SKELATOR (D.O.R.) 2 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351868911 Chapter two reveals that children are so entranced and brainwashed by Big Brother that they are willing to turn in their own parents for the sake of preserving Big Brother’s authority. There is also mention of hanging being a public event, seen as entertainment. We believe this is to envoke fear into any person who may think Big Brother is not good. He realizes that he is doomed to die and to be convicted of thought crimes eventually but continues to write in his diary.

Chapter three gives us a look into Winston as a character. We read that Winston was a child when big brother had taken power, as well as the fact that his mother and baby sister’s lives were most likely traded for his. He knows that some of the facts stated by the party are false as he remembers things from his childhood that contradict these so called facts. 

INQUIRIES
1. What kind of situation do you think these heathen children are placed in to become brainwashed?
2) Is it really brainwashing if they don’t  know anything else in the first place? I’m saying a yes still because they weren’t given a choice to think freely and make a decision for themselves
3. What does my herd of fellow ambassadors believe to be the reason behind the public hangings? ]]> 2019-04-16 03:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351868911 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351875663 2019-04-16 04:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351875663 yardd, p2 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351970189 •Winston is at work when a picture of three government defectors accidentally ends up in his stack, causing him to have a nervous reaction, even though he tries to remain calm in front of the telescreen. 
•Winston visits where the proles live, and a bomb decimates a building a few blocks down from him
•Winston goes into a pub to question an old man man about his life before the war, though he doesn’t get any answers. After this, he wanders to the junk shop where he bought his journal. 
I think the story starts slowly when it is setting up the world, but is picking up now with Winston visiting the proles. 
•I wonder how many times will Winston visit the proles
•If Winston is caught, will he be caught because of his actions at work?
•Will Winston find a reliable source of information from before the war?]]> 2019-04-16 13:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/351970189 SKELATOR (D.O.R) 3 https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/353219771 In chapter 4 we see what Winston does for a living. He “corrects” false statements in the media and replaces them with “accurate” information. Here we can infer one of the reasons that Winston is against the part and that is the fact they blatantly lie in the news. He states specifically about chocolate rations, he remembers them being lowered but he has to write that they have risen.

In chapter five we are introduced to Syme, a friend of Winston’s. He works in on the newspeak dictionary. I am suspicious of Syme because he believes he knows the real reason Winston did not view a hanging that had happens as of recent. Winstonton grows unsettled  of the concept of newspeak being theonly  language a man knows.

Chapter 6 explores the role of sex in Oceana. Sex is seen S disgusting and only to be done for procreation. Winston thinks otherwise. He shamefully writes in his diary of a particular event. He had encountered and solicited a prostitute in search  of good sex as his wife was  unpleasant to have intercouse with when he was with her. TL;DR Winston a thot
Questions
1. What do you think of syme

2. Should sex be done solely for procreation?
3. Does the Do you think Orwell is trying to tell us something through Winston’s job to “correct” media]]> 2019-04-23 01:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/brodyk15/7kd2lubjvlv5/wish/353219771