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Part II Chapter 3

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Julia is the one who handles the logistics of the meetings with Winston: "Never go home the same way as you went out,' she said, as though enunciating an important general principle."

What does"enunciating"mean?

Sometimes, despite careful planning, Winston and Julia "…reached their rendezvous and then had to walk past one another without a sign . . ."

What does"rendezvous"mean?

Despite working in the Fiction Department, Julia doesn't care much for reading. To her, "Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

What does"commodity"mean?

Winston and Julia know they cannot marry: "It was too remote to be worth thinking about. No imaginable committee would ever sanction such a marriage . . ."

What does"sanction"mean?

Under Party rule, "the family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately."

What does"device"mean?

Julia does not agree with Winston's view of their situation. "She always contradicted him …and would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated."

What does"contradicted"mean?

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