Quote
"It was my little daughter,...she listened throught the keyhoole. Heard what I saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven,eh?" (233).
Significance
I chose this becuase it shows a perfect example of how much the Party has poisoned the minds of its members. This man's feeling of social justice and loyalty to Big Brother, that he feels his own child turning him in is an honor. The worst fact is he had no idea he was doing it, he committed thoughtcrime in his sleep. Yet, he was turned in (by the life he created,mind you) all the same as someone protesting against Big Brother. This is exactly like the children spies of Hitler in World War II.
Words
racketeering(v)-the practice of conducting or engaging in a racket, as extortion or bootlegging
pedant(n)-a person who makes an excessive or innapropriate display of learning
About Me
- Rachael Kerr
- " 'Be what you would seem to be'-or, if you'd like it put more simply- 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you have been would have appeared to them to be otherwise,'"~the Duchess(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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