I think the first paragraph is telling us how nervous he is and is running on adrenaline also. How can the whole society change their minds so fast and not wonder what or why it's happening, it's so weird that they can be that brainwashed! I notice that he drops the suitcase, keeps it by his feet and sleeps on top of it....it stays close the the bottom all the time, and hell is down so it could represent that the book is evil for him.
The book is black and worn, been through many hands, which means many citizens have gone through what Winston is going through right now. He also stopped reading the book and took time to appreciate that he wasn't being watched or listened to, which is ironic because he is being watched and listened to.
The book he is reading is pretty much telling us what we already know. It is telling us what is going on within the government and why it is doing it. It is stating that they sort of have their own "world" and don't really associate with outside countries at all. I now understand the "war is peace" slogan: it is because the Party members believe that if they are at war (pretending) they are safe from the real wars and it keeps peace and order in the proles, so they don't attack the Party members. A line that struck me in the book was "the more intelligent, the less sane" which makes sense because when you finally do understand it all, it makes you crazy because you can't change it or do anything about it.
Why does Winston find the woman in the yard beautiful? Is there a deeper meaning to that? Winston finally realized the end of the book; that the proles were the free ones.
Winston and Julia were looking out the window when the telescreen behind the picture started talking and pretty much repeated everything they were saying. They were surrounded and attacked and Julia was killed; they hit her and she rolled around on the floor gasping for breath. Winston finds out that Charrington was a member of the Though Police because he shows up in the room and is very different looking. He is also the one on the telescreen who said "Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head." So he did know the end of the poem, just never told Winston. Why did he keep the ending of the poem from him?
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When you mentioned that the book was worn, it made me wonder how many people have gotten tricked just as Winston and Julia have. The Party has obviously done this before and that book was not a symbol of the multiple people in the (nonexistant) brotherhood, it was a symbol of the multiple people tricked and captured by the Party.
I partially agree with what you said about the suitcase being evil because it certainly wasn't going to bring him any good luck because O'Brien gave it to him.
I think that Winston called the woman beautiful because he was enraptured by how she was singing, even though her body displayed the hardships she'd been in. I think it was kind of like the bird in the woods where he was so amazed that it could sing, even though the world was a mess.
Did Julia really die? I thought she might have, but she may have been knocked out too...
Good question too about Mr. Charlington. Why didn't he finish the poem before? Was it because it somewhat described what the Thought Police might do to Winston? I'm not sure...
I also questioned why he thought the women in the yard so beautiful. Also, I think he kept the ending of the poem from him to keep him coming back, for Winston always thought that Mr. Charrington would eventually remember things about the past, like the end of that poem.
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