Chapter TWO

Winston puts many extra hours of work in to get prepared for Hate Week because their was a sudden change in enemies. Oceania was no longer at war with Eurasia, but they were at war with Eastasia now. In the middle of a speech that the Party was giving, it is claimed that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia and everyone follows this and believes it as the signs against Eurasia are torn down. Doublethink is presented here very clearly because these two contradictory beliefs, of being at war with Eurasia before and of always being at war with Eastasia now, are held in one's mind and both are accepted even though they can't both physically be true.
Winston receives the book of the Brotherhood finally after somebody walked behind him and said "You dropped your briefcase," just as O'Brien said would happen. He waited to open the briefcase and read it until he was in Mr. Charrington's room. When he reached the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, he opened the book with some excitement and begain reading it. To me, the book seemed rather boring; and I didn't understand how someone could learn so much about rebelling against the Party and the Big Brother, like O'Brien said, from a book. Julia arrives and seems uninterested in the book at all, whereas Winston seems to be facinated by it. Here we see again that Julia does not care about the future for all of Oceania, and that she only cares about her own life. We also see again that Julia and Winston, although they like each other and maybe even love each other, think almost the exact opposite other than the fact that they both are against the Party.
While Winston reads the book to Julia, she falls to sleep. After reading quite a bit and realizing that he learned nothing that he didn't already know, Winston put the book down and fell to sleep also. When they both wake up, Winston hears the prole singing outside again. The singing prole gives Winston a sense of comfort and that there is still humanity left even though the Party has tried to strip everyone of their feelings. This is ironic because right as Winston is listening to the prole and feeling this, the Thought Police are listening through the telescreen behind the picture waiting to break in.
Winston and Julia hear a disrupting voice. Then the picture falls, revealing a telescreen behind it. How did the picture fall on its own?? The voice in the telescreen was Mr. Charrington, who was a part of the Thought Police in disguise. The ordinary look for the Thought Police was obviously black symbolizing the darkness and evil that they portrayed by killing people's emotions.
The Thought Police invaded the room and caused Julia to become unconscious. They took her away. "Winston had a glimpse of her face, upside down, yellow and contorted, with the eyes shut, and still with a smear of rouge on either cheek; and that was the last he saw of her."
"And by the way, while we are on the subject, Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head." This statement is ironic when Mr. Charrington says it the first time because he gave Winston and Julia a place to stay, but only for the purpose of imprisoning them or killing them thus refering to chopping off their head.