6th Year Students Read "1984" and Wrote About It

1984 Write a page of Winston diary after the end of the book.

Dear diary,

This day passed too quickly... for me. I am feeling very happy because I´ve done interesting things. However, I am very tired now and think I need some sleep.
I got up and had breakfast, a very good breakfast, maybe because I ate at Chestnut Tree Café, but, honestly, I don't remember something: if I ate at home house, would the food be better? I don't care about it, the food there was great.
While I was eating the last croissant, a lady entered very quietly to the café, and when I saw her walking straight to my table, I knew she was Julia, so I left the café immediately, previously leaving fifty dollars to the waiter. I walked to the park, it seemed too beautiful, or, at least, more than other days. I walked around the lake and sat on a iron chair for one hour, staring at the lake, the ducks and the people walking. Later, I went to work. I love it, specially because there is the face of Big Brother and he makes me happy and makes my work funnier. I really like those telescreens, too.
When I finished with my work, I returned home. I went to sleep and now I woke up I still feel tired!

W

Andres Almada. 6^th B

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1984

The story is set in Oceania, which is ruled by the party whose representative is Big Brother. In this society there are three social classes: the inner party, the outer party and the proles. Winston is a man of about fourty five years old, who works in the Ministry of Truth. He changes the news to make the party always right. Suddenly he starts to distrust the party and BB thinking that is all a fake they use to keep the power. Winston begins to disobey the party. The first thing he does is to buy a diary in a proletarian neighborhood, something forbidden. Winston starts to write his ideas on it. One day, at work he saw O’ Brien, a member of the inner party. He was staring at Winston and he began to think that O’Brien shared his ideas about the party. Later, in one of his visits to the proletarian neighborhood he realized that a young woman was following him. The woman was called Julia. He confessed Winston that she was in love with him. Winston started to know her deeply and he fell in love with her. He realized that she was againts the party too. Mr. Charington, the man who had sold him the diary, rented Winston a room where he could meet Julia behind the party vigilance. One day the couple decided to visit O’Brien to learn how to learn how to fight against the party. He talked to them about the brotherhood and helped them to get Goldstein´s book (the biggest enemy of the party). The couple went to Mr. Charrington’s room to read the book but there they were attacked by the thought police. The owner of the shop was a spy of the party and he had betrayed the couple. They were taken to the Ministry of Love where they were tortured until they confessed all their crimes, they betrayed one another and ended up loving BB.    

Micaela Montenegro 6^th B

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1984. Winston is writing on his diary after leaving roon 101.

Here I am again, writing a page of my life on my diary…but alone this time. Alone and destroyed. When I look back in time and remember what happened in that cell, in that room, I can´t stop blaming myself, thinking in the people I could have saved. I was the only one, I was the “chosen” to fight the Party, it doesn’t matter how… It was my duty. But they’ve beaten me, and now I’m here in this dirty bar, being convinced that two and two make five, that there were people who never existed.
I still have a dream. I imagine that, if all the people against the Party joined me, we would win a battle, maybe two… Why weren´t we able to win the war?  We still can do it, because we must do it. We can’t let this world fall into pieces, because it’s our world, not the Party’s.
And now I’m thinking better, and I’ve just realized something. They didn’t beat me, they’ve only attacked and have weakened me, but I’m not beaten.
So remember this: Maybe I’m weak now, but I will get stronger. Two and two make four. All the people make history in this world, they will always exist. I will come back. Soon.
                                                                                                                                                                 W.

Abril Seminario, Facundo Almada, Bruna de Almeida, Juan Varga 6^th B

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SOME COMMENTS ABOUT TOPICS DEVELOPED IN 1984.

-SEX: IT WAS USED TO SHOW LOVE , BUT ITS ONLY GOAL WAS TO PLAY.FOR PARTY MEMBERS LOVE AND SEXUAL RELATIONS WERE FORBIDDEN EXCEPT TO ALLOW REPRODUCTION AND TO  ENSURE THE CONTINUITY OF THE PARTY IN POWER.

-EMOTIONS AND PRIVACY: INTIMACY WAS LOST AND EVERYTHING WAS SEEN THROUGH TELESCREENS AND MICROPHONES. THE LOVE FOR OTHERS DIDN`T EXIST.

IN MY OPINION IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT PRIVACY,WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE LOVED ONES. SEX CAN`T BE CONSIDERED ONLY AS REPRODUCTION BUT AS AN ACT OF LOVE.

IT IS A VERY SAD STORY AND IT IS VERY WELL WRITTEN.

JONATHAN YE 6^TH B