Chapter ONE

As I read the first section of reading for the book 1984, I discovered a connection to what is going on in England at the time to World War II. These events are very similar, and I think that this is where the author, George Orwell, received most of his ideas since the book was written at the end of the World War II. I perceive the events during the war and the book to be similar, the only separation is that George Orwell made the book a more modern version. I'm not sure exactly who Emmanual Goldstein is, but I think that he is supposed to be the present Adolph Hitler in the book because he dictated and most everyone followed what he dictated. Also the apartment buildings in which they live reminded me of concentration camps or the barricaded communities that Jews were forced to live in.
I also discovered that many of the points that we are reading in How to Read Literature Like a Professor are in this book such as Shakespeare being mention. Although I didn't not find a quote from any of his works, there was still a reference to Shakespeare, himself. Another that I came across was the reference to sex. "He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so..." No, it doesn't speak about sex in the act; it merely refers to it. The other, is like I said, a connection with history.
I didn't really understand the beginning of the book as I first started reading. It seemed to jump from one thing to another. Then as I got into the book, it began to make more sense. But what or who is Big Brother? I'm confused about that. Also I think that it is foreshadowing when Winston thought that O'Brien had a connection with him. It is foreshadowing that O'Brien is going to help him in some way later on in the novel. What was up with the flashbacks from his dreams? Is it his way of sort of trying to figure out what happened to make the world the way it was now... his way of understanding his past? I think so.