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We are also introduced to OBrien, a mysterious and powerful member of the Inner Party, whom Winston believes is also a member of the Brotherhood, the legendary Anti- Party rebels.
             Chapter 3 he starts to have more dreams of the dark haired girl, Julia, in the Golden Land and of his mother on a sinking ship who has disappeared before. He is then woken up by the telescreen and told it was time to exercise. He starts to think bout the records of Big Brother, which date back to the 1930's, although he was unheard of until 1960. At that instant a voice from the screen calls out his name reprimanding him for not working hard enough at the Physical Jerks. .
             As we enter chapter 3 he head off to his job at the Ministry of Truth in the Records Section deleting obsolete files. He comes across Comrade Withers, one of the former officials of Big Brother who has since been vaporized. He was replacing his records, since he was no longer a loyal member of the Party, with Comrade Ogilvy, a figment of Winston's imagination. He was the ideal Party member, opposed to sex and suspicious of everyone. .
             Into chapter 5 we find Winston with Syme an intelligent Party member who works on a revised dictionary of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania. Although Winston feels as though he's being watched, and when he looks up to realized the dark haired girl staring at him. He worries again she's an agent for the Party.
             Chapter 6 we find him writing of his sexual encounters in his diary, knowing the hatred of the subject by the Party. He writes of an experience with a prostitute, and although he has recorded this it has not alleviated his anger, depression, or rebellion because he still wants to shout profanities at the top of his lungs.
             He starts to look through children's history book, stating of the perfect cities that were built by the Party, yet all were lies. The city was in decay, the electricity rarely worked, and it was a complete mess.


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