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Mike Ryan
Period 6
English
In April of 1984, a guy named Winston Smith, who is a thin, feeble, and thirty-nine years old man. He has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The elevator in his apartment is always out of service so he does not try to use it. As he walks through his apartment, he is surrounded by signs saying the phrase Big Brother is watching you.
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Winston is a official in the Party, the political government that rules all of Airstrip One. Even though Winston is technically a member of the ruling class, his life is still under the Party's  political control. In his apartment, he has an device called a telescreen which is always on, spouting propaganda, and through which the Thought Police are known to monitor the actions of citizensâ€"shows a dreary report about pig iron. Winston keeps his back to the screen. From his window he sees the Ministry of Truth, where he works as a propaganda officer altering historical records to match the Party's official version of past events. Winston thinks about the other Ministries that exist as part of the Party's governmental apparatus: the Ministry of Peace, which wages war; the Ministry of Plenty, which plans economic shortages; and the dreaded Ministry of Love, the center of the Inner Party's loathsome activities.
From a drawer in a little alcove hidden from the telescreen, Winston pulls out a small diary he recently purchased. He found the diary in a secondhand store in the proletarian district, where the very poor live relatively unimpeded by Party monitoring. The proles, as they are called, are so impoverished and insignificant that the Party does not consider them a threat to its power. Winston begins to write in his diary, although he realizes that this constitutes an act of rebellion against the Party. He describes the films he watched the night before. He thinks about his lust and hatred for a dark-haired girl who works in the Fiction Department at the...
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