Sunday, April 12, 2009

a dream

Winston has had many dreams in the book that turn out to mean a lot to Winston. But the dream that he has in this part of the book is of something that has already happened. His dream is of his mother and sister and is about the last time he saw them. It takes place at the home when he was a child. They had gotten some chocolate and Winston wanted to have more then his ration of it so his mother gives him her part of the chocolate but that does not satisfy him so he steals his sister’s part of the chocolate. It is what Winston’s mother does that Orwell wants you to see and get. Winston’s mother takes the baby and hugs it and gives it some love because even though the chocolate is gone and there is nothing left you still will give love. This is the only case of actual love that Winston has ever seen and it was also the last time he saw either of them. He realizes what he did and feels bad about it because he feels that it was him that killed them and that he would like to go back and make things different. This is also may be why he loves Julia to make up for what he lost hen they took his mother and it may also be a way to fight the party to make up for what he did to his family.

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