I think the big poster with the eye that watches you represents/symbolizes that someone or something has been watching him or will possibly watch him....which after i read further I find out that that is exactly what that means.
It is cold outside so I know there is possibly misery, which showed when I kept reading. Also, in How to Read Literature Like a Professor he says winter means old age, resentment, and death....he is older and he does resent the government and their doings.
It's sort of ironic that his work place "towered vast and white above the grimy landscape" when really his workplace should be the grimy place where wrongdoings occur. I don't fully understand this whole government thing either, how can they just do this to all these people? Watch them and run their lives? It is also scary to think that the government can make people disappear..."vaporize" is the word they use, which is ironic because vapor is a form of water that always comes back to earth, either as snow, rain, sleet, hail, etc.
When he was freaking out about the government finding out what he wrote and shooting him in the back of the head, it was weird how the little boy did all that to him without knowing the situation.
I would hate being watched and being told to get up by someone tuning into your T.V. He also talked about how the government changed some of its history, which makes me wonder, how much of our history has been changed by our government?
This whole first reading section reminds me of the Holocaust, how the government has control over everything, every detail of the Jews lives.
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