When Winston over hears the two women talking it's ironic because one said "It's easy to criticize,' I says, 'but you ain't got the same problems as what I got." when in reality everyone has the same problems...with government, life in general.
When the bomb went off he got up after it like it was a usual, normal thing that happens. He didn't even seem scared or disturbed by it or the hand that he "kicked in the gutter".
If everyone can remember all these lottery numbers, why can't they remember their past? That is so crazy to think they make up the people that win the "big" prizes....it makes you wonder, what if all this happens now, at this present time....?
Winston tries getting answers from an old man who lived before the Revolution, but he was too old to remember or even understand the big picture.
That rhyme about the church was weird....maybe some significance later? I would be scared to be doing all the things he keeps doing, especially when it seems that a woman has been following him...but we later find out that she has a secret crush on the man when she slips him an "I love you" on a scrap piece of paper when he helped her up after she fell. When they go and meet at the town square I think that when the crowd rushed to look at the prisoners and they had to push through it is as if he is going through the government to see the girl. They actually get to hold hands briefly, but never exchange glances.
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I never looked into the part about the bomb that much, but I agree that that is weird. He just kicked a hand... a human hand into the gutter like it was nothing. If I would have done that I would have been really grossed out. I wouldn't have been able to look at it let alone touch it or kick it. The government makes your mind more harsh there. They have no emotions for things like that like at the beginning of the book, he talks about the movie where there is a bomb and somebody's arms goes flying into the air. They didn't really react to it.
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