What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston remembers his father "vaguely as dark and thin, dressed always in neat dark clothes …"

What does"vaguely"mean?

Winston wakes from a dream, which takes place in a pasture. "The landscape that he was looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he was never fully certain whether or not he had seen it in the real world."

What does"recurred"mean?

Why does Winston sleep without pyjamas?

During the morning exercise period, Winston struggles to recreate scenes from his childhood. He remembers his family seeking shelter from an air raid, after which "…war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. What does "literally"mean?

"Doublethink" requires one "to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them…."

What does"simultaneously"mean?

Winston struggles to hold on to his memories, but this is difficult because the Party has removed all evidence of the past. What is one definite lie that Winston can still dispute with his own recollections?

Were there any words that you did not know?
You can always list them here.

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Winston is tasked with handling "…articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify."

What does"rectify"mean?

When Winston finishes rectifying each message, he feeds "…them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames."

What does"devoured"mean?

Not everyone in the Records Department does the same work as Winston. For example, a man nearby is " …engaged in producing garbled versions …of poems which had become ideologically offensive . . ."

What does"ideologically"mean?

One of the articles assigned to Winston must be entirely re–written. He enjoys this type of work the most, but he knows he is not the only one assigned to do it: "So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place."

What does"fabrication"mean?

In response to his most challenging task of the day, Winston invents a fictional hero for Big Brother to praise. He stops short of awarding " . . .Comrade Ogilvy the Order of Conspicuous Merit: in the end he decided against it because of the unnecessary cross–referencing that it would entail."

What does"entail"mean?

The messages that Winston receives to work on use many words of "Newspeak", which is the language of the Party. What is the Party's name for standard English?

Please enter the first three words of a sentence that shows your answers is correct.

Were there any words that you did not know?
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What do you think will happen in the next chapter?
(This is just a spot for you to jot some notes for yourself.)