DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

Winston bought his diary at an antique shop. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to write in it, but he had to get his feelings out somehow. He didn't know if anyone was going to ever see it. In fact, he was pretty sure nobody ever would. When he first started writing, he went very quickly, talking about how he was at the movies. He said some strange things, like how when a fat man was getting killed everyone laughed. In the world today, when we see someone getting shot, we don't laugh. (Well, most of us anyways.) As he was writing, he started to sidetrack, thinking about the government and how he knew it was always like this. He was trying to remember what it was like to live in the past, when he was a little boy, but he couldn't remember. After he stopped thinking about the past, he looked at his diary to find that he had written "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" over and over again. Then he started writing things like "theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck..." He knew that he could get in a lot of trouble for thinking and writing things against the government. He figured sooner or later he was going to get caught and killed because he was always thinking bad things about the government, and now he was writing them, too. He knew inside of him that Big Brother and the government was wrong, and that it wasn't always like this. He wondered if there were people in the world who thought the same thing as he did. He was sure there were, but he didn't know how to find or contact them. He started talking about a dream he had had, where a man named O'brien told him that they would "meet in the place where there is no darkness." Because of this dream, he knows that O'brien is on his side. He knows there are people out there who think like him, all he has to do is find them and try and stop the government.